Sensitive/Not Sensitive

So Kerry puts out this line:

I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history.

So, Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney then attacks the "sensitive" part of the speech. He is basically calling Kerry a girl:

A sensitive war will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans and who seek the chemical, nuclear and biological weapons to kill hundreds of thousands more. The men who beheaded Daniel Pearl and Paul Johnson will not be impressed by our sensitivity.

Now, the Daily Show had the best counter to this with 1. Mocking and 2. Pointing out that Bush has used the word "sensitive" in speeches before. Libral Oasis has a roundup of Bushies that have used the word "sensitive" in talking about foriegn policy.

Now to get to the Bigger Issue. Bush is not smart. No one on his team can make the case he is smart. Bush can be tough. So he is trying to frame this debate as "Weak and Smart" verses "Tough and um...Simple." That's why they are trying make a big deal of "sensitive." It's the "I have no brain but I can kick your ass" form of foriegn policy.