In my little video blurb below I asked readers to send in the text of this one passage of Sen. Jim Webb's speech which I thought was the most powerful language of the evening.

Here it is ...

Like so many other Americans, today and throughout our history, we serve and have served, not for political reasons, but because we love our country. On the political issues — those matters of war and peace, and in some cases of life and death — we trusted the judgment of our national leaders. We hoped that they would be right, that they would measure with accuracy the value of our lives against the enormity of the national interest that might call upon us to go into harm‘s way.

That's the heart of it. It damns George W. Bush in ways that very little else can.

Late Update: I'm told by a source close to Webb that the senator wrote the speech himself.