Vets, families outraged by remarks

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 11-02-06 | Tory LaRussa and Brian Bowling

[jazusamo]

Pittsburgh-area Iraq war veterans and their relatives criticized Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for comments they found disparaging to combat troops. Robert Kaminski Sr., of Shaler, said he "let fly with a string of profanities" when he read Kerry's comments.

"I was working out in the gym at Walter Reed (Army Medical Center) with the sound turned down on the TV, so I was reading the captions on CNN and just couldn't believe what Kerry was saying -- I can't repeat what came out of my mouth when I saw that," Kaminski said Wednesday.

[jazusamo]

I wonder how these veterans and their families feel about John Murtha not demanding an apology from Kerry?

[loveliberty2]

Even children should be taught that saying, "I'm sorry if you 'misinterpreted' what I said," is not an apology!

Kerry's elitist arrogance is unbounded, it seems.

He had his chance to apologize! He didn't!

Instead, he defiantly argued that his intended target was the Commander in Chief, claiming that he intended to "joke" that if these young people didn't study and achieve scholastically, then they, too, might one day become President and get America "stuck in Iraq."

How stupid is that?

Such a lame excuse reveals an even more hollow head, accompanied by extreme arrogance!

[jazusamo]

Ping

[3AngelaD]

At least your local paper is making an attempt at rational coverage.

[100-Fold_Return]

...so I was reading the captions on CNN and just couldn't believe what Kerry was saying...

Quit watching that garbage, for pete's sake.

Fool you once, shame on CNN; fool you twice, shame on you, Fool!

[stylin19a]

John "Tommy Flanagan" Kerry:

Don't comment on what I say, comment on what I might have meant, and if you don't understand what i might have meant, it's your fault.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Offended by Kerry?

Go pull that Republican lever on Tuesday.

What else can I say?

[dfwgator]

People need to be reminded that this is the guy that Democrats wanted to be President. What does that say about all Democrats.

[Texas_shutterbug]

"Even children should be taught that saying, "I'm sorry if you 'misinterpreted' what I said," is not an apology!"

Exactly. It blames the listener for what came out of HIS mouth!

How about " I'm sorry I mispoke" if he wants to get away with a minimal apology? LOL

[TET1968]

BREAKING! Hitler APOLIGIZED TO THE JEWS !!!!

A small cardboard travel case circa 1945 containing a document that will change History the way we have been taught it, has been discovered in an attic in Pasadena California.

Inside the case, hidden under the canvas lining was a 4" x 5" card with a handwritten note signed, Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. A noted handwriting expert from the Smithsonian Institute has declared the document to be authentic.
It reads as as follows:
I apologize If any Jew was offended by anything I have said or done while fighting for all Germans no matter what religion or mental capacity or political affiliation.If there is a Jew , or even Jews out there that was or were offended by something I might have said in a beer hall while joking with my close friends, I would only say, don't believe everything you read in newspapers owned by the communists."

Deutchland Uber Alles
Adolf Hitler

[EnquiringMind]

"John "Tommy Flanagan" Kerry: Don't comment on what I say, comment on what I might have meant, and if you don't understand what i might have meant, it's your fault".

Yes. And creeps like Matthews and Olberman are trying to twist this into Republicans "MANIPULATING Kerry's words". HUH??? His words are his words. The only manipulating being done is by the democrats. And if I hear one more Republican say that they believe it was a "botched joke", I'll scream.

[Michael Barnes]

Please give that tired post a rest.

[jazusamo]

Go pull that Republican lever on Tuesday.

EXACTLY!

[jazusamo]

People need to be reminded that this is the guy that Democrats wanted to be President. What does that say about all Democrats.

It also says much about Dems that only a few called for an apology from him, they really don't get it.

[massgopguy]

Every Managemnet course I've taken stressed that it is the obligation of the communicator to make sure that they are clear in their meaning. Not the obligation of the listener.
Kerry reminds me of John Laroquette in Stripes when he used the excuse that his troops were not competent to understand his orders.

[Grampa Dave]

John Murtha is in bed with Pelosi, Kerry, Durbin, Levin and other rats who hate America and a strong military. With his record, Murtha should be mayor of Gay Frisco.

What the US Army recruiting poster under "President" Kerry would look like:

Our brave warriors n Irak respond to Jon Carry"

Kerry is no different re his hatred of a strong America and our warriors than 99.9% of the rats in congress. Every rat running for election should have to face a copy of this banner everytime they show their treasonous faces. Pelosi, Murtha, Clintoon, Boxer, Kennedy, Durbin, Levin, Rangle, Reid and other rats in congress hate our military and a strong America. Just look at their voting records the past two years as President Bush pointed out this week.

Kerry is shown leading his fellow hate America and our military Rats to their final destination in American Politics:

Vote against all traitors this election day. Support our troops and their CIC, President Bush.

[jazusamo]

I couldn't agree with you more, Dave.

Diana Irey is going to send the teasonous Murtha packing.

[Matchett-PI]

Did "America's families" have amnesia when Kerry and the rest of these DemocRATS were bashing the troops and their talking points were being used by Al Jazeera??

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1529283/posts?page=24#24

[jazusamo]

Excellent point Matchett and thanks for your great post.

[Matchett-PI]

You're welcome. Here's more from that thread:

I saw Dr. Walid Phares being interviewed on Fox 11/26/2005 about his new book, so looked him up on Google. Chapter 13 especially was mentioned by the host as "knocking his socks off". The book is entitled, "Future Jihad Terrorist Strategies Against America" by Dr. Walid Phares

One excerpt from International early reviews:

From Paulo Casaca, Socialist Member of the European Parliament. Chairman, NATO delegation at the EUP.

"Walid Phares Jihad anatomy"

"The Islamist Jihad on the United States did not start on September eleven 2001; indeed it was preceded by several other attacks as well as a formal war declaration from Bin Laden. However, America was taken absolutely by surprise. Phares' book is the best comprehensive explanation so far of this paradox: American society - including its Academia, Public Opinion, Business and Political establishment - was made dormant by a systematic and unchallenged action from the Salafist circles, and that's the reason why of the success of the attack.

This book is a must read not only for all those in America who want to better understand their enemies but specially to those who are facing the "soft-jihad" infiltration in their societies that took place before in America."

[SNIP] Click link to read more.

"Just a few decades ago, these lunatics would have been locked up to protect themselves and society from them. Now, thanks to the MSM redoing what is sane and insane, these lefty lunatics are portrayed as the great ones."

Only ignoble moral relativists will buy into what Cicero called "[the enemy's] appeal to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men"

Those of more noble character consistently resist giving in to their baser instincts and refuse to sell out their country for personal gain (temporary fame and fortune).

One finds NO noble mentalities who want to identify themselves with what has become the majority base of today's RAT party.

The emasculated RAT "blame America first / anti-war kook-fringe" Party is responsible for the fact that our enemies were emboldened by our show of weakness at every turn. They are the cause of us being viewed around the world as a "paper tiger". They, and those who voted for them, are responsible for the 9/11 attack on our own soil which killed more people than the attack on Pearl Harbor.

These enemies within that Cicero so accurately described, can never be safely entrusted with the reins of power and the security of the United States again.

Noble Americans will see to it.

31 posted on 11/27/2005 1:29:03 PM EST by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1529283/posts?page=31#31