Thanks Mick and Diogenes; that particular guest is a real sewer rat.

Once the ill-considered "war" of Bush's was begun NO candidate was going to be able to maintain an anti-war stance without the Bush-camp and ultra-conservative rhetoric glowing red hot about not supporting the troops, etc., but as we saw last week, there are a lot of gullible Americans who belive it. A real knee-jerk reaction on the part of Bush and his cronies part to defend an indefensible act. Regardless of the private stance any of these candidates may have held, the public face has to be to support the (impressed-labor) troops until they can get them the hell out of Iraq, where they never belonged in the first place.

SRS