A career of trashing the troops

NY Post Editorial:

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As of last night, no apology was forthcoming.

Nor, interestingly, was there a word of disapprobation from Democratic Party leaders - many of whom have been working diligently to undercut Bush's War on Terror; doubtless many others would like to, but just don't dare.

Kerry himself has been trashing the military ever since returning from Vietnam in 1969 - which is why so many fellow vets hold him in deep disregard.

Not only is Kerry arrogant and insulting regarding America's contemporary military - he's also just plain wrong.

Military recruits today are actually more educated - not less - than their civilian counterparts of similar ages: More than 90 percent of recruits have a high school diploma vs. about 75 percent of the broader population.

As American Forces Press Service reported last year, "Military recruits actually have much higher average aptitudes than the general youth population . . . In fiscal 2005, 67 percent of recruits scored above the 60th percentile on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. The test is designed so that the average young person will score 50 percent . . ."

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But Kerry claimed Republicans were mischaracterizing his words: "If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy."

Now, where on earth would anyone get the idea that John Kerry would disparage American troops during wartime?

Perhaps because John Kerry brazenly told Congress in 1971 that American soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."

That was a hateful, self-serving lie.

So was Monday's gibe.

True, it appears that John Kerry doesn't think that today's servicemen and women are war criminals.

Just that they're stupid.

Any wonder Democrats aren't taken seriously on national security?

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Judging by Kerry's and the rest of the Democrats reaction to the flap, they think the rest of us are stupid too. Kerry has said that the quip was supposed to be a joke about the President being stupid. That comes from the arrogance of liberalism that holds that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid or evil or both. By failing to apologize, he has put every Democrat candidate on the defensive and they will be asked before the election whether they agree with him.