Military to Kerry: "We don't need Your Help"

John Kerry has wanted to talk about one thing for the past few weeks; Iraq. Before that, John Kerry wanted to talk about one thing: Vietnam. His major charge against President Bush is that Iraq is the "wrong war at the wrong time" Kerry's biography is something like born in an Army hospital, won four purple hearts, criticized Bush for Iraq, please make me president.

Since issues involving the military are the center of Kerry's campaign, and since he claims he knows what the military needs and wants, since he is "reporting for duty" to quote his acceptance speech, you would assume the military might support him, or at least be split if Iraq is supposedly going so poorly. If you think that, you would be wrong.

According to USA Today:

"In the survey of more than 4,000 full-time and part-time troops, 73% said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today; 18% said they would vote for Kerry. Of the respondents, 59% identified themselves as Republicans, 20% as independents and 13% as Democrats.

The survey was conducted Sept. 15-28 by the Army Times Publishing Co., which distributes the weekly newspapers Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Corps Times. (Army Times Publishing is owned by Gannett, which also publishes USA TODAY.)"

Wow, you only need to poll 1,000 people get to a 4% margin of error for the entire US, I haven't done the math, but the margin on this poll has got to be 1 or 2%. That looks like a ringing endorsement of Bush policy in Iraq to me. These are the people on the front lines of the war, these are the people in, going to, and coming home from Iraq, and by a 4-1 margin, they are supporting the President.

This is a crushing blow for Kerry. He has based his whole campaign on criticism of the war coming from uninformed, unqualified partisans like Howard Dean, Al Gore, and Michael Moore, men who have never been to Iraq and know little to nothing about the military or about wars. Kerry is trying to make the election a referendum on Iraq. Well, the people who know the most about Iraq have spoken, and they have rejected Kerry, the rest of us would do well to follow their lead.

P.S. Cheney crushed Edwards in the debate tonight, and the polls are already showing it. Cheney came across as the steady hand of experience and exposed Edwards as a lightweight Senator who has spent more time on the campaign trail than in the Senate, who was clearly out of his depth debating Cheney.

Timothy Burger