[roses of sharon]

He would not have disarmed me.

There is ZERO in that statement that remotely has one iota of anything to do with the President.

I hear this crap from Dims all the time, they think military men are brainwashed bubbas from red states.

[william clark]

Yes, but his camp's explanation was that a couple of words would have clearly implied that it was the President, not the troops, being insulted. If that argument is true, and he had made the remark "as scripted," then you wouldn't have any basis for accusing him of insulting the troops, because the insult would have been aimed at Bush and we'd all know it.