Conservatives launch baseless verbal attacks on U.S. troops

One of many tactics used against Democrats and John Kerry when they question the president's handling of the war in Iraq is to accuse them of attacking our nation's service men and women. On the contrary, Kerry is being vocal on this issue to protect those men and women in uniform. Like many of us, he sees just how incompetent this administration is and how badly they've botched the job in Iraq. As the article above points out, it's Republicans who ought to be getting more blame for trying to shift the blame from the Bush administration to U.S. troops.

For example, here's former New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday on the Today Show:

GIULIANI: "The president was cautious. The president was prudent. The president did what a commander in chief should do. And no matter how much you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?"