sisyphusshrugged

first up in the Washington Post Sunday news show roundup: Mr. Giuliani

"John Kerry has found himself always on the side of being antiwar, anti-military. A whole career in the United States Senate that he ignores in which he's voted against military funding. During the Ronald Reagan era, he was against our military. When he came back from Vietnam, he was against our military. He was against the Persian Gulf War.

"He consistently attacks our military now. He does it in the guise of attacking the leadership, but in fact, he's attacking the military, the same way he did after Vietnam."

followed, in the interest of balance[?] by about half as much soundbite from Mr. Rendell

"It's obvious to me that bin Laden is trying to help George Bush because George Bush is the best recruiter that al Qaeda has," Rendell said. "George Bush is so disliked in the Arab world that we're creating terrorists every single day -- more terrorists than we can even come close to killing."

and then Dr. Frist

Asked about Kerry's observation that the U.S. military "outsourced" the search for bin Laden after the overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Frist said: "To have John Kerry blame our troops, it's like . . . 40 years ago when he came back from Vietnam. . . . " He is "blaming our troops on the ground. Who is John Kerry going to blame next in this war on terror?"

Kerry said that the Pentagon screwed up. Our guys weren't even there. At that, the politicals made the decision, not the soldiers.

At this point in the war, the Pentagon was relying heavily on hundreds of allied Afghan fighters for the ground mission at Tora Bora, even though the shortcomings of those local troops were clear in advance.

"We made a conscious decision, the United States government, that there were organized Afghan forces on the ground that could be helpful to us," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news conference on April 17, 2002. "Did we think they would function exactly the way United States armed services organized units would function? No. We knew they would function differently. And we said to ourselves, 'O.K., on balance, how do we feel about that?' And the answer was, 'Well, we feel pretty good about it. Let's go ahead and use them.' "

No, attacking the military looks like this

Asked on the show Thursday about the controversial loss of 380 tons of explosives in Iraq during the war, Giuliani deflected criticism from the White House, saying "the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough?"

One wouldn't expect Mr. Giuliani and Dr. Frist to appreciate the distinction, since their deferments prevented them from serving.

Or maybe their slots were filled by poor folks and minorities, like Mr. DeLay.

Oddly, Kerry managed to squeeze in.

Just shut up. Really. You pathetic lying chickenhawk bastards. Just. Shut. Up.

And hey, you guys at the Post? Didn't have time to check on any of this?

Go figure no-one wanted to put their name on it.