The Left and many in the media have made a career of justifying and excusing the actions of our enemies not only in this war, but in every other major conflict we've been in for thirty years.

The three hostages that had just been released days earlier gushed enthusiastically about their captors, and have not recanted on that. So a lot of people assumed this was more of the same.

Go read my posts in the thread below. I cut her a lot of slack. Please point out where I said anything about "traitor." For that matter, feel free to pull up any right-wing blog that used that term.

You really want a short answer?

Most of the attacks came from the Right, because the leftists believed every word she said in that statement in the first place and heartily approved of it.