Rove: Insulting Military Is a Kerry 'Habit'

ABC News ^ | November 1, 2006 | Ann Compton

[Dane]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2006 — Karl Rove, President Bush's top advisor, talked to ABC News' Ann Compton about the remarks Sen. John Kerry says were a botched joke about the president, and about Bush's future.

Here is a transcript of the conversation:

COMPTON: Senator John Kerry has made a statement about Iraq. Do you take him at his word that he was talking about the president and not the troops?

ROVE: I take him at his word when he insulted America's fighting forces. This is a habit that he's had over the years. He did it when he came back from Vietnam and there's no way that an individual looking at what he said, which is available on the Internet. Go on and look at yourself. Any American can. This guy was insulting America's troops by suggesting that if you were stupid you went to Iraq.

COMPTON: But he says it was a botched joke about the president?

ROVE: Then he ought to apologize for those Americans fighting on our behalf who thought it was an insult on them. I saw a number of them on the television this morning and it was very clear they took it as a personal insult. He ought to apologize to them and he cannot bring himself to do so this. This is his sort of like his elitist attitude about this. When he came back from Vietnam he slandered his comrades in arms from Vietnam in saying that in the mode of Genghis Khan they raped and pillaged their way across Vietnam. Now, he's suggesting only stupid people are willing to volunteer to fight in our military and go into harm's way in Iraq.

[Nancee]

PING!!!


Nancee

[Sax]

Yeah, it's not like Pat Tillman didn't other multi-million dollar options available to him.

[RasterMaster]

It's also a habit of Durbin, Dean, Kennedy, Pelosi, etc....

[GOPJ]

Did you notice that none of the major newspaper did anything with this story?

Yes, I did notice that...

[RightWhale]

The botch was he left out 'the war'. He meant to say 'stuck in the war in Iraq.' Right, makes just as much sense that way.

[CottShop]

Well I'm not sure about that Pennsylvania is fairly evenly split between Dems and Republicans, but they have a fairly lqarge independant group as well that leans to the left- That state has been traditionally hard convince one way or another- I'd at least liek to see Santorum give it a whirl- Brennan is another good candidate- Solid thinker- says what he means, and not afraid to confront liberal bias- He's a bit too soft wpoken though- I like what he says, but gosh I almost go into a trance listening to his monotone words- Hey- that's what we need! Get Brennan on the ticket- He'll hypnotize the country & we can sweep the elections!

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[ushr435]

Reminds me of one of those "Separated at Birth" pictures :-)

[Chena]

Stamp of approval! BUMP! LOL

[BelegStrongbow]

In Before Rove you magnificent...

get it now?


:)

[Screamname]

This guy was insulting America's troops by suggesting that if you were stupid you went to Iraq.

The bitch also in his second statement said Iraq is screwed up because the troops are stupid, and he said Bush knows this.

A recap below of that second statement by the poodle bitch......

"Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush."

[Mia T]

bump

PARSING JOHN KERRY, OUR TROOPS: A MESSAGE FOR THE WOBBLY VOTER

[Blue State Insurgent]

I noticed that the media puts Kerry's web statement in quotation marks as if he actually said it.

[Enchante]

John Kerry: "If you can graduate with a 'Gentleman's C' average, marry a rich heiress and then a rich widow, and not say anything too revoltingly nasty about our dumbass troops, you can do well. Ooops, I've stepped in it again!"

[seanmerc]

Happy Rovember!!!

[seanmerc]

Nah, he'll just throw it over the White House fence. Oh wait, he only does that with other people's medals.

[Recovering_Democrat]

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[SmoothTalker]

Funny because insulting Kerry is a favorite habbit of mine.

[Rembrandt]

I've frequently heard "Taxachusetts" which seems to fit really well, but I've never heard "Massoftwoshits" which seems to fit even better!

Thanks!

[seanmerc]

My favorite is "The People's Republic of Taxachusetts".

[Wil H]

This just in!

John Kerry has just turned in the paperwork for an additional Purple Heart for shooting himself in the foot.