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Kerry Worried About Offending Troops?
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
October 28, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - The Kerry-Edwards campaign Wednesday released another last-minute TV ad - this one thanking America's soldiers and families for their sacrifice -- and stressing "John Kerry's commitment to always support our troops."

The 30-second ad, called "Heroes," follows Kerry's comments about the U.S. military's failure to secure Iraq's al-Qaqaa weapons dump.

Kerry, of course, considers it a failure of the commander-in-chief: "Our troops are doing a heroic job; the president, the commander in chief, is not doing his job," Kerry said on Wednesday.

But by extension, the Bush campaign suggested, Kerry also is blaming U.S. troops, who stopped at the al Qaqaa munitions dump around the time Baghdad fell - but didn't find any explosives - and didn't secure the weapons they found there. They had no orders to do so, one commander has said.

"Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives when his top foreign-policy advisor admits we do not know the facts," Bush told a rally on Wednesday. "Think about that. The senator is denigrating the actions of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts.''

President Bush said he is trying to get all the facts, and he's ordered an investigation into the missing explosives. ''This investigation is important and it's ongoing,'' he said. "And a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.''

In the Kerry campaign's new ad, a narrator says, "Our soldiers fighting in Iraq are heroes, their families have earned our thanks and our support. As we see the deepening crisis and chaos in Iraq, as we choose a new commander- in-chief and a fresh start, we will always support and honor those who serve. Strength. Courage. Patriotism."

The words "Thank you" flash on the screen.

President Bush on Wednesday reminded Americans that if Sen. Kerry had his way, "We would still be taking our global test, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, he would control all those weapons and explosives, and could have shared them with our terrorist enemies."

Sen. John Edwards on Wednesday wondered what President Bush was talking about when Bush suggested that Sen. Kerry doesn't support the troops.

"Aren't you sick and tired of George Bush and Dick Cheney using our troops as a political shield to protect their own jobs instead of doing everything they should to protect our troops? Our men and women in uniform did their job, George Bush didn't do his," Edwards said.

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How sacreligous can these a$$ faces get. I have friends over in Iraq, and I know that they have been offended and pissed off by this so called WaR Hero, he aint no hero, if anything he is a coward, and commie sympathesier.