Posted on 10/31/2006 1:26:35 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006 4:08 p.m. EST Sen. John Kerry: 'I Apologize to No One'
Sen. John Kerry has refused to apologize for his remarks suggesting that U.S. troops in Iraq are uneducated and not "smart,” instead charging that the White House has deliberately misconstrued his comments.
At a Tuesday afternoon press conference in Seattle, Kerry said "I apologize to no one” for what he categorized as criticism of the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy.
Kerry touched off a storm of protest when he told a college audience on Monday that "if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
The comments drew demands for an apology from Sen. John McCain, the National Commander of The American Legion, and others. White House press secretary Tony Snow called Kerry’s statement "an absolute insult.”
But at his press conference, Kerry tried to give his remarks a tortuous spin, saying in effect that what he meant was if you’re like President Bush and you don’t do your homework – listen to advice from others – before committing American troops, "you end up in Iraq.”
He also claimed that the White House understood what he was trying to say yet sought to "distort” his comments.
As NewsMax reported earlier, 99.9 percent of the enlisted forces have at least a high school education, and 73.3 percent have been to college.
Among commanders:
Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, has an MBA from George Washington University and has taken courses at Harvard.
Gen. John Abizaid, Commander of U.S. Central Command, has a master’s degree from Harvard.
Gen. George Casey, Vice Chief of Staff in the U.S. Army, has a master’s degree from the University of Denver.
Brigadier Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt, U.S. Central Command’s deputy director for strategy and plans, has earned degrees from the United States Military Academy, Harvard, the National Defense University, and the United States Army Command and General Staff College.
and therein lies the rub.
Some brilliant songwriter needs to rewrite, "There, I said it Again."
I saaaaid it.
What more can I say?
I saaaaid it.
It's better that way.
I said it.
I will till the end.
There, I said it again.
Correct!
Here's what I see as the biggest problem with the MSM, both print and electronic.
Even though we cheer the declines in viewership and readership at the MSM, a strong majority of the American public still gets their news from these sources.
These sources include the LA Times, CBS, the Minneapolis StarTribune, CNN, the Des Moines Register, etc. etc.
I can tell you that my mom is one of those people. She watches Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News and reads the Minneapolis StarTribune every friggin' day. She makes no attempt to look at alternative news sources.
Until we can find a way to break more and more people away from this, there's gonna be a sizable majority of those people out there who'll reflexively believe that the Dems are perfect.
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You may have a point. So, I believe I owe an apology to all of those who did not like my "spam." Apparently I don't understand something about the concept of threads. I want to follow the "rules," whatever they are. I just need to know what the rules are...Does anyone know where those rules are? or How do I get in touch with the moderators? (I know this probably easy but I don't know how to do it
I do understand that many were in a frenzy about Kerry's comments yesterday (with good reason)and wanted to talk about it, so naturally no one wanted to be distracted with something "off topic." The reason I did it is because I knew this "thread" would attract a lot of people not only from here in FR, but from outside (people who just read the post but do not participate)which ARE the people I am interested in reaching. I goes w/o saying that I am very committed to my causes as well so I might have crossed the line a bit. Sorry.
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