Giving Jacque La Kerry the benefit of his own admission, and that which the leftist media wishes to extinguish with their latest peep into private bedrooms sex "scandal", KERRY made a joke who's punch line was 'IRAQ".  Is this the party we wish to install as 'LEADERSHIP"?
Daily we witness the Democrat Parti and it's shill media reporting body count from Iraq, often jumbling all deaths to confuse Americans who died and why.  If American Soldiers have died it leads, a daily Vietnam style drip of our brave, if not "intellectually limited", citizens.  If no Americans were murdered by the Islamic Fascists, they will report yesterdays again or the weeks tally, or the months.   If that is not sufficient to sway American Voters that Nancy (facial stretch-rack) Pilosi should be speaker, then it is a generic body count of Iraqi Civilians.  Never reports of Terrorist's death, remember that these Islamo-cowards will not wear a uniform, so they must all be civilian.  The vacuous hair-jobs try to appear somber for these body count reports, some even label it "honor roll" while they scroll names and photos of these uneducated heros.  The Democrats themselves love the milestone 1000, 2000,... American Deaths.  I'm still awaiting the point where our military deaths equal those of 9/11 so the media and Democratics can explain to America that we are now 'Even" and should evacuate the Middle East.   Yet with all these Democrat hollow gestures of care, it is still acceptable to consider these deaths and the situation in Iraq as fodder for campaign trail humor.  
The media clamored to Kerry's defense confirming the 'BOTCHED JOKE" defense as if that is more acceptable.  The Lefts inability to recognize that turning our nations sacrifice in Iraq into a Punch line is as offensive as the continued berating of our soldiers by KERRY past and present and exemplifies why the Democrat Parti is not fit to control oversight of our Defensive missions.  Apparently the leftist elite is either too intelligent to realize it's insulted America on both counts, or they think every American voter is too limited in mental prowess to feel their cold backhanded slap.