Coming to a Battleground State near you: The Kerry-Heinz 2004 Aid and Comfort Tour

Kerry Blames Bush for Attacks on 'Our Kids'

Sen. John F. Kerry on Tuesday told American voters that "our kids [U.S. troops] are being shot at from weapons stolen from the ammo dumps that this president didn't think were important enough to guard."

There is no proof that weapons taken from Iraq's al-Qaqaa compound have been used against U.S. troops, although that's the suggestion raised by the New York Times and CBS -- and seized on by the Kerry campaign.

The New York Times reported Monday that 380 tons of high explosives vanished from an Iraq military compound, but other reports say no one has been able to pin down when the HMX and RDX disappeared -- or who took them -- or whether those explosives have in fact been used against U.S. troops.

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Kerry-Heinz is shamelessly using an unproven (though thoroughly and widely debunked, particularly by military blogger Belmont Club) story floated by a disgruntled UN hack and offered as a gift-in-kind from the NY Slimes to the Kerry campaign to save his moribund candidacy. In so doing, he is not only smearing GWB, but the men and women who are serving us in Iraq and their commanders.

But what's even more execrable, is the invitation it sends to the enemy to ratchet up the violence against our troops prior to the election:

Leaders and supporters of the anti-U.S. insurgency say their attacks in recent weeks have a clear objective: The greater the violence, the greater the chances that President Bush will be defeated on Tuesday and the Americans will go home.

"If the U.S. Army suffered numerous humiliating losses, [Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John] Kerry would emerge as the superman of the American people," said Mohammad Amin Bashar, a leader of the Muslim Scholars Association, a hard-line clerical group that vocally supports the resistance.

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Abu Jalal, answering questions submitted to him through the Iraqi journalist, devised a simple formula for how his group's attacks on American soldiers draw votes from Mr. Bush. "They say there are 1,100 dead soldiers. That means 1,100 families hold grudges against Bush and hate him. There are 6,000 families whose sons were injured who hate Bush and will not re-elect him."

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Why not just paint a big targets on the backs of our people? The message he's sending to the terrorists is "Want us outta there? Aim here!"

Of course, this is not the first time in his career that the Botoxed Bolshevik has, from the safety of our shores, incited violence against U.S. troops as the men of "Stolen Honor" will attest.

Pathetic that this poncey fop values his electoral success over the safety of our soldiers and the success of their mission. Cue Lynne Cheney: "This is not a good man".

Once a traitor, always a traitor!