Posted on 10/31/2006 9:37:49 AM PST by Mo1
Washington Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerrys comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. Im sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
Im not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Foxs Parkinsons disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because theyre afraid to debate real men. And this time it wont work because were going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.
There's nothing more angry than a "man" with his foot stuck in his mouth.
By the way, isn't Kerry doing what he and the Dems. accuse Bush of doing in putting himself above criticism, doing so in his case because he served in the military? If they can reserve the right to attack a war time commander in chief, then we can reserve the right to call to task a guy who served 30 years ago who insults our military men and women in the here and now. You don't get some sort of sacred immunity Kerry because of who you think you are, any more than you allow the Commander in Chief immunity from criticism in a time of national danger.
You guys are STUPID..hey, did you know I was in Vietnam??
SO many catch phrases!!
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classic G.O.P. playbook
these despicable Republican attacks
those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did
misled America into war
a Katrina foreign policy
betrayed our ideals
widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it
Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor
Republicans want to debate straw men because theyre afraid to debate real men
an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.
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personally, I'd like to slap him silly for 1) the original statement, and 2) the last quote I pulled from the story.
He's obviously playing to the moonbats for the 08 nod.
I look forward to a full report on this outrage tonight on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Great graphic - sums it up just about perfectly.
Just when I think this despicable excuse for a human being can't stoop any lower, he does.
I've been wondering if Irey can get some traction with this.
Yes...he fought and won at Hangnail Ridge.
I think what he was implying was Bush was not smart and ended up in Iraq. Unfortunately for him and good for us he did not fill out the statement and it came out as an insult to the people in the armed forces.
How does Boston's village idiot think he can get away with this? HE is on tape saying it, and Rush, Tony Snow and George Bush didn't make him say it. (I'm not quite ruling out Karl Rove yet).
HE attacks the best educated troops in US history and spins it into an attack on troops by the Republicans?
The man(?) is beneath contempt.
John Kerry - Laughing Stock
He's done.
definitely the head sc%mb&g.
You are joking right? Do you really have any belief that the Treason Media is going to become patriotic or truthful.
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