Our bumbling, incompetent troops...and what about those weapons?

Kerry said during a campaign stop that Bush bungled the guarding of the explosives. He said that ridding Iraq (and terrorists) of "weapons of ANY destruction" was "why we went into Iraq."

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hasn't he been saying that we went into Iraq for WMD's (weapons of mass destruction), not WAD's (weapons of any destruction)? He's said that failure to find WMD's is proof that they weren't there (contrary to his assessment from 1998 - 2003). And now he's saying that we knew Saddam had WAD's, and that's "why we went into Iraq in the first place"?

Umm...didn't he just prove Bush's point and make Bush's case for invading Iraq? He just flip-flopped (big surprise) his position on why we went into Iraq: finding WMD's vs. finding WAD's. And if failure to find the missing WAD's implies that they existed in the first place, then his claim that WMD's never existed is logically inconsistent with his premise.

Guess it just depends on which way the political winds blow...thus, perfectly illustrating why (among countless reasons) he is unfit for command.

Also, was Bush guarding the weapons bunkers? No, the troops were supposed to. So if Kerry is saying the same thing that his talking points at CBS-NYT is saying, which is that the explosives disappeared after the fall of Iraq, then Kerry is necessarily saying that the troops are incompetent, since they were tasked with guarding the stash, right? No, Kerry praises our troops as "heroic", when what he really means is "heroically incompetent." He is trying to trash Bush, but he cannot do it without by proxy denigrating our soldiers.

Yeah, calling the troops bumbling idiots is a great way to inspire confidence in them to follow you! I swear, this guy is clueless!

Finally, if you're sick of the missing explosives story, please throw me a bone and read this last story about it. I mean, there will be more stories, but this is a short timeline that tells you everything you need to know about it. Read it, then I'll quit asking you to check out related stories...I promise! ;)

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/32832.htm