Here's the agent:
He got the last laugh. Repaid Kerry in spades by staring at that flower power zipper pull with a "WTF?!" look on his face just as the photo was snapped.
Posted on 11/02/2006 1:46:33 PM PST by highimpact
This is an email I received from John Kerry today, in response to my email yesterday asking for his resignation.
"Thank you very much for your comments. As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop.
This is the finest military that we’ve ever had. I have fought a lifetime on behalf of veterans. We have the finest young men and women serving us in the United States military that we’ve ever had, and I’m proud of that. As a combat veteran, I know the dedication, integrity, and commitment of American troops. I’ve lived it. Had George Bush and Dick Cheney lived it one minute of their comfortable lives in combat they would never have sent American troops to war without body armor or without a plan to win the peace and they wouldn’t be exploiting our troops today.
The White House’s attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their failure in making America safe. It is a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics. It is textbook Republican campaign tactic. Try to change the topic; try to make someone else the issue; not the policy, not their responsibility.
I apologize to no one for my criticism of the President and of his broken policy. If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it is the President. It's their willingness to distort, their willingness to mislead Americans, their willingness to exploit the troops, as they have so many times at backdrops, at so many speeches at which they have not told the American people the truth. It’s George Bush’s broken policy that kills and maims our heroes in Iraq every single day. His pathetic attempt to distort a botched joke about President Bush is a shameful effort to distract from a botched war.
President Bush owes an apology to our troops and to their families for mistake after mistake in Iraq. George Bush didn’t do his homework when he ran from sound intelligence about Iraq. Dick Cheney didn’t learn from the lessons of the Gulf War when he forgot his own advice not to get bogged down in Iraq. George Bush didn’t do his homework when he ignored General Shinseki’s advice to go to war with enough troops to maintain order. This entire administration didn’t learn anything about telling the truth; otherwise they would have leveled with the American people that we are stuck in a civil war in Iraq today."
Kerry fought for the veterans before he fought against the veterans.
Education, homework, trying to be smart; focus on these and you'll do well. If not, you get stuck in Louisiana.
Jon Qari
Lying, traitorous POS!
KERRY: ...And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not...
SCHIEFFER: Yeah.
Mr. Kerry you said that "As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop"
Well if that's the case were you also just making a joke about President Johnson in the 70's when you claimed that US Soldiers:
"...had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads..."
"...randomly shot at civilians..."
"...cut off limbs, blown up bodies..."
"...razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan..."
"...crimes committed on a day to day basis..."
"...ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam..."
or was it a botched joke about Saddam when you said the US soldiers were
" ... going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the - of - the historical customs, religious customs."
I wonder if the American people are aware that John Kerry served in Vietnam...
Isn't it funny how a Senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee still tries to shove everything on Bush?
That man truly lacks any accountability.
One democrat louse down, thousands to go!
Has he ever told us what the joke was? I mean there is no way you can take the words he used and make it a joke about Bush. What did he leave out that would have made it understandable or even mildly funny? I just haven't figured it out.
...............Kerry's Resignation= Apology..........
-- From Julius Caesar (II, ii, 32-37) by Wm. Shakespeare
Alternatively,
Kerry fought for the veterans themselves before and after he ran for public office.
Sad to say that would have more potential to be true if he had to face the voters of a state other than Massachusetts.
At least someone got a reply. I'm still waiting for mine.
Here's the agent:
He got the last laugh. Repaid Kerry in spades by staring at that flower power zipper pull with a "WTF?!" look on his face just as the photo was snapped.
PLUS, his assistants all know my voice by now, so I have to shout at them through a handkerchief, and ya know how hard THEY are to find these days.....
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