did John Kerry just call soldiers stupid?

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

With all due respect, I find this idea to be ludicrous. You are asking me to believe that, in the middle of a speech that was an all out bush bash, he suddenly decided to switch gears and call the troops stupid, one week before perhaps one of th most important elections in our lifetime.

I can easily buy that Kerry screwed up the wording of a Bush joke. I cannot buy that someone that was a soldier would basically attack himself and his fellow servicemen, knowing the political backlash that would follow. Would someone who went through the swiftboat experience like he did, and who has presidential aspirations actually think it would go over well to insult the troops. It makes no sense, especially given the context of the rest of the speech. I'm just not buying it.

How can you not buy that when he maligned the troops before- accusing them of war atrocities that he never actually saw, and may not have even happened?

Just earlier this year, or late last- he accused them of terrorizing people in Iraq.

Kerry has a history of slamming the military- I agree with Leo- he may have flubbed the joke- but I suspect a freudian slip.