Why can't John Kerry fly to Iraq this weekend and talk very

[Oleladylib]

plainly to them about his gaffe, his intentions and his fore thinking to get them back home soon...It could hurt nothing and help everything

[DRoseDARs]

1. If that Sludge pic is some kidders, he should seek them out and take another pic. n/t

[movonne]

2. Let's talk about something else...how about the occupation of

Iraq and all of our soldiers dying...

[Mistress Quickly]

3. Because Iraq is so unsafe

I don't think he can just up and fly there on a whim. I'm sure when any of the misadministration flies there, it is with weeks and weeks of prep.

Such irony.

[Oleladylib]

7. Money can buy anything even a trip to Iraq for the

weekend..Kerry would do us all proud and give a gigantic lift to our military personell

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. uh

it keeps him in the news, which is where he shouldn't be, and the story alive, which is what we don't want.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. The soldiers are well able to understand what john Kerry meant.

And you know what, most people prefer an honest man who could stumble over a speech to a dishonest man who always has a slick way with his words.

It happens that, in Bill Clinton, you had an honest man who could also speak very discursively completely off the cuff, with ease. Of course, the neocons called him "Slick Willie", but that was because they hated they way he was keeping them out of power. But the fact is, no two good men's skills will be identical. And people understand that. In fact, I'll bet you a pound to a pinch of snuff that they will have winced in sympathy with John Kerry, when he fluffed that punch-line a little (there would have been some ambiguity to a visitor from another planet), rather than have misunderstood where he stood in relation to Bush and to
the vets.

Consequently, his going to Iraq to apologise to the servicemen and servicewomen would be completely senseless, and indeed would play right into the hands of the neocon propagandists, giving the troops the completely wrong impression, i.e. that his punch-line was aimed at them.

If I say so myself, that "uncomprehending visitors from another planet" is not a bad metaphor for how the neocons seem to view the American people in their propaganda a good deal of the time.

[youthere]

6. kicking