He also attacks Kerry for his anti-war activities in the 1970s.
James Webb savages Bush and Kerry and says
Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target. While he boasts of removing Saddam Hussein from power, he did far more than that. He decapitated the government of a country that was not directly threatening the United States and, in so doing, bogged down a huge percentage of our military in a region that never has known peace. Our military is being forced to trade away its maneuverability in the wider war against terrorism while being placed on the defensive in a single country that never will fully accept its presence. There is no historical precedent for taking such action when our country was not being directly threatened. The reckless course that Bush and his advisers have set will affect the economic and military energy of our nation for decades. It is only the tactical competence of our military that, to this point, has protected him from the harsh judgment that he deserves.
He also goes after Kerry:
Kerry's own comments were filled with hyperbolic exaggerations that sought to make egregious acts seem commonplace. During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in 1971, he testified that fellow veterans had routinely "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." With those words, he defamed a generation of honorable men. No matter how he spins it today, at a minimum, he owes them a full and complete apology.
I guess Webb missed the
Toledo Blade series that showed that atrocities were being committed on a wider scale than the government has acknowledged. Should Webb apologize to Kerry and the other "Winter Soldiers" for his own ignorance of what was actually taking place in Viet Nam? What about the use of Agent Orange, carpet bombing etc? Has anyone offered a defense for tactics that killed more than one million Vietnamese in a pointless war? Kerry was not attacking the Veterans he was attacking the leaders and policy makers. Don't they deserve our scorn?