John Kerry wasn't belittling the troops in Iraq, he was telling them the truths of the matter and not dodge balling around like our current president. Bush had an agenda from day one to go into Iraq and finish his daddy's work. His daddy messed up in the first place by not finishing the job when men and women risked and gave up their lives in the gulf war. Old George went into this war with a red hot iron up his ass all fired up and without a dead sure plan to get in and out as quick as possible with as little loss of life. I understand that war is a terrible thing and lives on all sides can and will be lost. This is an awful reality, but losing lives because our president is sending men and women into battle without the best bullet proof protection and armor available, it makes me turn red to think of families pooling moeny together to out fit their son, daughter, wife, husband, grand child, or next door neighbor, because some idiot sitting in the whitehouse wants to see his filthy rich, crooked scum of the earth corporate a holes, earn an extra buck and leave the soldier in the trenches without every option for optimum survival at his or her's disposal. Like the future president said last night, America will not back down from a tyrant or necessary war but only will he when assuming the role of commander in chief send troops off to a foreign land only under absolture necessity. And how about the soldiers of previous wars and battles being shafted by our current president's policies that prevent veterans from getting the health care they deserve. Our current president has a lot of holes in his story regarding the reasons and backbone of the skelital structer of reason explaining why our country has lost a mind boggling 900 men and women. From top to bottom in the Bush administration their is a sickening corrosion of integrity. The current climate of the Bush administration behind closed doors is comparable to a scene of little boys and girls who are trying to hide a grape juice stain on a pearly white carpet. Sure it will remain hidden for the short term but when the heat is turned on and the stench comes from underneath the throw rug and the powers that be start to smell what is cooking there is no hiding the truth and efforts of deception. I want to see a president in office in the next four years who is making a positive effort to improve all arenas of American government, not a president who is trying to hide from truth and is constantly running an uphill and winless race of deception and corruption. Kerry for President hell yes, Bush packing his Jammy's and bankie to go back to the ranch hell yes. Signing off JFK