Kerry Blog "de-links" to Daily Kos

Kerry Campaign Blog ^ | 4/3/2004 | Dick Bell

[A Jovial Cad]

"In light of the unacceptable statement about the death of Americans made by Daily Kos,"

[A Jovial Cad]

Looks like even Kerry's team couldn't stomach Daily Kos's revolting comments about the deaths of four Americans in Falujah--either that or the heat got too hot and they decided to dump him.

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Kerry Linked supporter Kos: "There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly. . . . I feel nothing over the death of merceneries [sic]. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them."

[bayourod]

What's Daily Kos?

[A Jovial Cad]

It's a web-site ran by a left-winger. He was one of the darling bloggers of the DNC and Kerry camp until this latest brouhaha. He posted some really hateful comments about the four Americans killed in Falujah, then issued a kinda/sorta/not-really apology afterwards.

[woofer]

Looks like even Kerry's team couldn't stomach Daily Kos's revolting comments

Yeah, but it took Kerry and his minions a couple of days to "decide". Y'know, stick their fingers out the windows to check the temperature and which way the political wind blows.

The bastards.

[kenth]

So why do they still link to DU I wonder. Some really awful stuff there every day. Here is an older one; the recent posts referring to the murdered Americans as mercenaries who deserved killing I don't have saved. I'm sure someone here does.

Warning: Repulsive material follows



I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be "dead" for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But "indirectly" they are doing a lot.

The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call "a democracy", relies heavily on what a shit hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly--i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum.

[OneTimeLurker]

Here's the "apology."

Mercenaries, war, and my childhood
by kos
Fri Apr 2nd, 2004 at 17:57:39 GMT

There's been much ado about my indifference to the Mercenary deaths in Falluja a couple days ago. I wrote in some diary comments somewhere that "I felt nothing" and "screw them".
My language was harsh, and, in reality, not true. Fact is, I did feel something. That's why I was so angry.

I was angry that five soldiers -- the real heroes in my mind -- were killed the same day and got far lower billing in the newscasts. I was angry that 51 American soldiers paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly in Iraq in March alone. I was angry that these mercenaries make more in a day than our brave men and women in uniform make in an entire month. I was angry that the US is funding private armies, paying them $30,000 per soldier, per month, while the Bush administration tries to cut our soldiers' hazard pay. I was angry that these mercenaries would leave their wives and children behind to enter a war zone on their own volition.

So I struck back.

Unlike the vast majority of people in this country, I actually grew up in a war zone. I witnessed communist guerrillas execute students accused of being government collaborators. I was 8 years old, and I remember stepping over a dead body, warm blood flowing from a fresh wound. Dodging bullets while at market. I lived in the midsts of hate the likes of which most of you will never understand (Clinton and Bush hatred is nothing compared to that generated when people kill each other for politics or race or nationality). There's no way I could ever describe the ways this experience colors my worldview.

Back to Iraq, our men and women in uniform are there under orders, trying to make the best of an impossible situation. The war is not their fault, and I will always defend their honor and bravery to the end of my days. But the mercenary is a whole different deal. They willingly enter a war zone, and do so because of the paycheck. They're not there for humanitarian reasons (I doubt they'd donate half their paycheck to the Red Cross or whatever). They're there because the money is DAMN good. They answer to no one except their CEO. They are dangerous, hence international efforts (however fruitless they may be) to ban their use.

So not only was I wrong to say I felt nothing over their deaths, I was lying. I felt way too much. Nobody deserves to die. But in the greater scheme of things, there are a lot of greater tragedies going on in Iraq (51 last month, plus countless civilians and Iraqi police). That those tragedies are essentially ignored these days is, ultimately, the greatest tragedy of all.

War ::

[river rat]

Know thine enemy....

These "liberals", leftists, Socialists, Unionists, Marxists, Multi-Culturalists, Earth Firsters, PETA, ACLU or any other organisation that puts their own welfare or financial interests ahead of what is best for America - are the enemy.

Know them well.....

In the past 35 years -- there has been NOTHING about Kerry's public or private life that qualifies him to lead the country --- or even be trusted to keep his word or oath of office.

Semper Fi

[Rome2000]

Some of the brilliance going on over at that scary place known as blog.johnkerry.com

Greed is Irak's most vicious enemy, and sensorship is America's most vicious anemy at this hour in history. This will be my last posting here, because I will not support your sensorship of an opinion different from your rhetoric. This is America, remember? Your sensorship just smeared the cause you profess to uphold in this war. You are no different than those you aim to beat at the poles. You just call yourselves by a different party name.

[finnman69]

Big blog on the Kos thing at instapundit

http://www.instapundit.com/archives/014877.php

[CyberAnt]

"either that or the heat got too hot and they decided to dump him"

I believe your "either" is correct. They got caught .. so they dumped the guy.

[jocon307]

ok, but you left out a bunch of [sic]s. other than that, it's ok!

[Atchafalaya]

I sent her a reply letting her know that Spellcheck is her friend.

[muawiyah]

Some of the blogs are going to take credit for the Kerryites taking Kos down off their site, but the cold, hard facts are that the Kerryites lurk at FreeRepublic.

There were some tough words for Kos here. Some of them linked Kerry's alleged involvement in an assassination plot with the kind of killings undertaken by his gumbahs in Fallujah. Guess he couldn't take it.

[JLS]

Of course, people should not forget that his site previously DID link to a site of such opinions.

[dougherty]

Wow, there sure are some sick people over at DU. One of the reasons I never go over there and lurk among that motley crew. I would not be able to stomach it for long.

[NYCVirago]

That Kos guy should have quit while he was ahead. His apology/explanation sounds even worse than what he originally wrote!

[kenth]

I sent email to the webmaster at johnkerry.com asking why DU was still linked when they express the same sentiments as Kos every day. I just cannot wait for the response. :P

[A Jovial Cad]

Pretty sick stuff--and standard fare over at Demo Armpit/Underground. I think I read in here that that post was removed by the moderators over at DU, but not before word got out about it all over the blogosphere.