Even though I got the boot over there for profanity, I still check out Red State from time to time just to see how the other side thinks. But one article today by tacitus angered me like few before.
Tacitus commits the sin that so many have committed before of editing John Kerry's Senate testimony to make it seem that He's aiding the Vietnamese
Tacitus contrasts the horrors noble men underwent under the vietnamese to force them to criticize the Americans foreign policy with John Kerry discussing how our soldiers committed atrocities while criticizing american foreign policy. See, cause John Kerry is a traitor for speaking out against a war rife with problems, he's doing exactly what the enemy wants them to do.
Red State Jumps the Shark
Here is what John Kerry Actually said:
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape 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 country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country
for the last time, JOHN KERRY IS ONLY REAFFIRMING WHAT OTHERS HAVE ALREADY ADMITTED TO! You undercut any possible arguement you may have when you have to edit his quote to make it sound like he's accussing people of doing things. I know you may not like it, but the american people deserve to know what is being committed in its name across the world. That's why it's not aiding the terrorists to know about abu gharib. And why it's important heroes like John Kerry stepped forward to lay out the truth about what was going on.
Congratulations Tacitus, you're a hack.