Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Would You Bet Your Life On The Lack of Intelligence of U.S. Soldiers?

I'm sure by now, everyone and his brother's heard about this little gaffe by the esteemed (sic) junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, John f. Kerry...


While campaigning in California, Kerry told a college crowd Monday: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."


I was listening to Walton and Johnson this morning, and one of the characters on the show, Billy Edd Hatfield, had a very good question: Would Senator Kerry position himself about 300 yards from a hidden Marine sniper, and bet his life on that sniper's education (or lack thereof *snort*) in his chosen craft? Would that an intrepid reporter on the campaign trail had asked him that...