This is how to respond to anyone who tries to use the Kerry comment against Webb and other Democrats.
"They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry GÇö a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service GÇö and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election."
Friedman describes all the "real and deadly insults to the U.S. military" by the Bush team.
Sending the military into Iraq without enough troops, without the proper equipment, and without a coherent post-war plan.
Sending our men and women off to war and then financing "the very people they're fighting against with our gluttonous consumption of oil."
Karl Rove is a genius, just like the cigarette companies. "They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer."
"And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer. Please, please, for our countryGÇÖs health, prove him wrong this time."
Friedman pleads with us to let Karl Rove know that we're not stupid. Let him know that we are not a banana republic that will allow the Bush team to "behave with the level of deadly incompetence it has exhibited in Iraq - and then get away with it."
We must hold the ruling party to account.