I'd bet some of those "murderers" were innocent. Too bad they're dead.
You can't speak for Kerry because you weren't in Nam. If you were of age, and had been a normal person, you'd probably do the same if you had been drafted and sent into combat. He'd been to war (unlike Bush) and served honorably, but had realized atrocities were being committed on both sides and came back to become a protestor. What's wrong with that?
He'd committed war crimes because a) He was ordered to and b) It's hard to think straight when a bullet could go through your head at any moment. A lot of soldiers, most of them probably, did the same. It was kill or be killed. Not that that's good-- the whole war was stupid. But for the soldiers who had to fight in it, that's how it was.
Kerry brought up a good point on the Daily Show when he said something along the lines of going to war as a last resort, and that clearly wasn't the case in Iraq. There was no imminent threat to America. Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush just used it as an excuse to invade Iraq, which he'd wanted to do ever since they "tried to kill his daddy."
Besides. What the hell does it matter what he did 30 years ago? Why is the Vietnam War such a huge issue when nothing can be done about it? Y'know, if they concentrated on actual issues, Bush would look like the tragical mistake of a President he is. |