Kerry Served

Kerry Served
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Why it matters


"Bring it on": President Bush, to terrorists and their ilk.

When you take the opportunity to address that kind of message to a foe which is implacable and murderous it is going to have the effect of waving a red flag in front of a bull. What purpose other than provocation is served by this presidential chest-thumping?

Our military is resolved. The fake heroic challenge is extraneous to its mission in Iraq and even the morale charge of a pumped-up chief executive won't provide one more competent decision, workable plan or one more unit of support to the fighters there on our behalf.

Any commander who issues that kind of a provocation to an enemy this treacherous had better be standing with a m16 in front of soldiers like my 19-year-old niece. She's a certified combat medic and any retaliatory fire aroused by Bush's hot-dogging for the cameras of a ferocious press corp will be aimed at her. She will be standing there.

If I felt George Bush understood that the cost of taking on a war; then tossing that challenge in on top of the undertaking, could be her life, I'd understand why this man is commander-in-chief.

Irresponsible. That's what that is.