Posted on 11/03/2006 9:25:25 PM PST by Sterm26
Kerry has to link to articles like this one, or the others by Friedman and Lehigh (which aren't "recent news headlines" but editorials and opinion columns) because he's desperate.
The junior senator was having a "senior moment" or a kind of flashback. I don't know what he was "trying to say" -- he probably doesn't either -- but it looks like he got the attitudes he has to have in the present and those he had in the Vietnam-era garbled together.
P.S. There are plenty of comments on the SPI website about this editorial. Also a poll. Most of those who took it disagree with the paper.
Uhhh, OK. Then he must have been saying that every American that supports our finest and their mission in Iraq is stupid. I think I have got it this time. Maybe Nancy could do a shoulder-to-shoulder with Jon Carry on primetime Monday night and clear all of this up.
Seems kerry has motivated whole legions of military families to work MUCH harder until Tues.
"The Seattle Post Intelligencer--On a liberal tailspin into oblivion."
I would bet the education level of our military exceeds that of the Seattle PI staff!
2 sides to every issue
8-)
Attached is his response. He just is incapable of any understanding of the hurt he has inflicted.
Thank you very much for your comments. As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop. I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended. This is the finest military that we've ever had. I have fought a lifetime on behalf of veterans. We have the finest young men and women serving us in the United States military that we've ever had, and I’m proud of that. As a combat veteran, I know the dedication, integrity, and commitment of American troops. I've lived it. Had George Bush and Dick Cheney lived it one minute of their comfortable lives in combat they would never have sent American troops to war without body armor or without a plan to win the peace and they wouldn't be exploiting our troops today. The White House’s attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their failure in making America safe. It is a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics. It is textbook Republican campaign tactic. Try to change the topic; try to make someone else the issue; not the policy, not their responsibility. I apologize to no one for my criticism of the President and of his broken policy. If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it is the President. It's their willingness to distort, their willingness to mislead Americans, their willingness to exploit the troops, as they have so many times at backdrops, at so many speeches at which they have not told the American people the truth. It’s George Bush’s broken policy that kills and maims our heroes in Iraq every single day. His pathetic attempt to distort a botched joke about President Bush is a shameful effort to distract from a botched war. President Bush owes an apology to our troops and to their families for mistake after mistake in Iraq. George Bush didn't do his homework when he ran from sound intelligence about Iraq. Dick Cheney didn't learn from the lessons of the Gulf War when he forgot his own advice not to get bogged down in Iraq. George Bush didn't do his homework when he ignored General Shinseki's advice to go to war with enough troops to maintain order. This entire administration didn't learn anything about telling the truth; otherwise they would have leveled with the American people that we are stuck in a civil war in Iraq today.
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