RB
If I were to look at the picture, what would you expect my reaction would then be to looking at the picture of Kerry. I fail to see your point, although I admit that I do understand the point you think you are making. When I see the picture of the Marines at Iwo JIma, I do indeed feel the patriotic lump in my throat that you would like to think only republicans have claim to. But, when I see John Kerry holding the flag upside down, I see him making a statement that it isn't the administration of the United States that those Marines died to preserve, but our form of government, and a BIG part of that form of government is the right, and the Duty to speak out against it when we perceive that we are not being governed in a way that is consistent with the Constitution. The man is a decorated veteran of combat, no one better qualified to then protest the government's policies that he disagrees with. His right, his duty and to his credit, he stood up for what he believes both when he volunteered for Vietnam and when he led the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The moral courage that both of these acts required is to be contrasted against Bush who even though he supported the war, thought it worth American lives for, just not His life. Then he went AWOL from the cushy duty his father arranged for him. Why do I need to point any of this out to you ??