I’m pretty confident you’ll find that our “founding fathers”, who crafted and signed the documents which are the basis of our government were incredibly well-educated and not just for their time – they would be considered so today as well.

And here’s something they knew and proved very well – a ragtag guerrilla force will always defeat an “army.” It has happened every time an organized military confronts such for the last 200 plus years.

By Joe P. on 11.01.06 6:49 pm

Guerilla forces are just what they say- guerilla. They fight like animals and do not follow rules of combat. They kill any and all enemies regardless of age, sex or military status. John Kerry is anti-American and it slipped out in plain view.

By TNOpinion on 11.01.06 8:11 pm

Joe–I agree that our founding fathers were educated. But I think you missed what I was saying.

I said:

To me, I believe the underlying premise of Mr. Kerry’s statement was that if you become “educated” enough, you’ll realize that there is nothing worth dying for.

Thank God for my revolutionary forefathers who were “uneducated” enough to believe differently.

In other words, if John Kerry is saying that being educated means NOT dying for something, then I was thanking the revolutionaries who were willing to die for our democratic experiment. The “uneducated” remark was a jab at what I think is Kerry’s definition of educated.

I also was referring to “revolutionary forefathers”, the every day men who left homes and families, not just the “founding fathers” known for their work on our Constitution.

By Terry on 11.01.06 8:34 pm

Well, I think this administration has failed quite badly in the war. They, and the press and many on the Right, deem it obscene to even show an image of a flag-draped coffin of soldiers killed in action.
So any word, any image even slightly different from their view is sheer evil, and I find that to be dangerous nonsense.
Why debate Kerry’s words when our elected officials have failed so much in their mission to arm and deploy Americans? That’s the falure that costs lives.

By Joe P. on 11.01.06 11:05 pm

Joe-glad to see your true motives behind taking issue with comments about the IQ of our military.

I can’t believe you are actually going to take issue over images of flag-draped coffins when we the footage of the bombing of the Twin Towers is locked away in vaults for our national “pyschological” health.

Please…if you’re going to try and claim the media doesn’t cover deaths you’re going to be hard pressed. They cover it constantly…radio, TV, print. Yet more people are dying here on American soil in our “progressive” cities.

By Terry on 11.02.06 2:55 am

Isn’t how/when/who discusses the war the issue? It seems to play out that way from my perpespective.

Who locked the footage away? Didn’t CNN just run the entire day of 9-11 broadcasts on their web site? The only footage I’m aware of that’s been locked away is from the Pentagon. I don’t claim to have all knowledge here – perhaps you know facts I do not.

I’m not sure what you mean by Americans dying in America – you’ll have to explain that one. The media does present a number count, yes. But that wasn’t what I said – we do not see, for reasons provided by this administration, coffins of soldiers.

By Joe P. on 11.02.06 11:14 am