Comments on: How Much Play Should The Press Give The Kerry Gaffe?

[Dissimulate]

If the corporate media gives this any play - which they already are - they are self-evidently acting as part of the Republic campaign to keep control of the government. The gaffe is completely irrelevant except to create the utterly false perception that Democrats don't like the troops.

[mattcat25]

There were no weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraqi Oil was to pay for the rebuilding of the infrastructure, The Iraqi People were going treat the US as liberators from Saddam Hussein, and somehow all this was in effort against the war on Islamic Terrorism.

The only thing that has succeeded in Iraq is the $2 Billion Dollars a week being squandered by our Congress to Private Contractors and Special Interest Groups. The Troops are paying the highest costs and at this point they are truly stuck.

[memekiller]

The only justification you can make for the misunderstood joke of a man not running for office is that the Republicans want to make it a big deal. But isn't that the problem? The news is determined by whether the GOP finds it important. There are quite a few stories the Democratic Party feels are important, and are by any non-partisan analysis MORE important than this one. Every day, our current President gives us a verbal gem that could be run into the ground, if journalists were inclined to "balance" their shallowness occasionally. Did you know the US military abandoned a missing American soldier at the orders of the Iraq government, rather than our own? Not if you get your news from CNN.

"If Bush says jump, we must" is not a very convincing argument any more.