Perhaps a "Freudian slip"?

MDE reports that democrat U.S. congressional candidate Colleen Crowley has now apologized for her website's blog's depiction of 25-year Marine Veteran John Kline as a bumbling Nazi. According to MDE, Crowley stated

"I'm going to say that ... it was in bad taste. ... This was a Nazi uniform and I didn't grasp that impact, and I apologize for any bad feeling that he got from that," she said in a phone interview. "But I would not apologize for thinking that his representation of our [Second] district has been incompetent. I think that many, many things that John Kline has uttered have been incorrect."

According to MDE, quoting a Star Tribune story,

Rowley said she also apologizes to anyone thinking the photo was meant to denigrate the military, saying she has "the highest respect for our military men and women." Her daughter, her brother and her brother-in-law all have served in the military, she said.

But I still wonder how much respect Crowley has for the mission for which our brave soldiers are willing to eat bullets. From her blog:

Exiting Iraq: Now and How

Facts have slowly come out revealing that the invasion of Iraq was based on a Bush administration deception from day one. And just as truth was the first casualty of this war, it is a continuing casualty. 2000 Americans (as of October 25, 2005) have sacrificed their lives in courageous, proud service to their country. But President Bush refuses to answer the question of their loved ones as to what "noble cause" they have actually died for. Conversely, there is a growing consensus among our own policymakers and military leaders that the American occupation is fueling the insurgency and that it is therefore best for the United States to exit Iraq sooner rather than later.

Politicians, like John Kline, who were cheerleaders for the Bush administration's deceptive WMD rationales from the beginning, now find themselves locked into denial. Likewise, the Bush administration's public rhetoric of "staying the course" is nothing but a strategic refusal to admit the truth about their earlier mistakes and ongoing failures in Iraq. This continued denial is worse than hypocrisy: it doesn't help strengthen the Iraqi political process and cannot succeed even if our troops were to remain in Iraq, according to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's last estimate, for another 12 years.

Yep. Just another moonbat.

And, yeah, I know that I could go down the old tired road about hers and others' refusals to admit the SUCCESSES in Iraq, but we've all been down that road before.

Perhaps Ms. Crowley did not mean to "bash the military" with her blog's depiction of Kline as a bumbling Nazi. But I wouldn't put it past the person who did; the person for which Crowley states

"I support this excellent blog written by one of our best volunteers!"

BTW, Remember how the DFL went absolutely apoplectic when a local Minnesota Senate Candidate (Dan Ochsner) had a doctored campaign photo on his web site, depicting a faux campaign rally? I wonder if the DFL will go equally apoplectic over this, the severity of which tops Ochsner's faux pas in spades.

Judging by a recent perusal of their web site, I won't hold my breath.

(Filed under elections, the fifth column)