Spot-On: Christopher Allbritton: Did He Really Just Say That?

Bush in KCMO [Excerpt] "The VFW speech was a noxious attempt at playing to Bush's base of "America First" conservative Republican support, a blatant attempt to play on the politics of fear by demonization the media, liberals, Democrats and anyone who questioned the Iraq war. The Vietnam portions of the speech were red meat to the right wing that has, for years, argued that the U.S. didn't step into an unwinnable war -- it was stabbed in the back by traitors at home." Read more