Sterotypical republican tactic: "Let's take this one word out of context, distort its meaning and blow it completely out of proportion, then we'll get 40 people on national tv condemning the person for using that one word!"
Kerry, 08/05/2005, speaking to conference of minority journalists:
"I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history."
Cheney, 08/12/2005, ridiculing Kerry:
"America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive,"
Bush, 08/06/2005, speaking to same group Kerry spoke to:
"Now in terms of the balance between running down intelligence and bringing people to justice obviously is—we need to be very sensitive on that."
That's funny, why didn't Cheney ridicule Bush for saying we need to be sensitive about how we fight terrorists?
And that link to Limbaugh's site is just asinine. Kerry didn't say that American troops have done
nothinggood in Iraq. If those pictures were completely representative of interactions between troops and civilians, all the troops would be doing in Iraq is giving out flowers and hugs. As the Bush administration is quick to point out, we are in a war, and in a war, civilians will be scared by the military, especially when they can't communicate. A friend of mine from high school and my cousin have both done tours in Iraq, and guess what, they didn't spend the whole time there hugging kids.