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I sent Jon Carry an e-mail about his comment. Here's his canned response:

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.

(info@johnkerry.com)

[hattend]

Had George Bush and Dick Cheney lived it one minute of their comfortable lives in combat

Psssstttt...Jon Carry, Don't you know that Billy Jeff dodged the draft and we still have soldiers in the Bosnian quagmire?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Maybe if I sent John Carry an e-mail that basically called him a "Friggen traitor, you need to resign for the good of the country", I'd get a canned thank you response.

[TexasPatriot8]

What a crock. And he didn't write one word of it. Just like he didn't even write the one apology he did make on the website, not even having the character or dignity to apologize on camera like he insulted them on camera. Typical loser liberal.

[Eagle of Liberty]

General Shinseki’s advice

If I hear this man's name one more time out of Jon Carey's mouth, I am going to scream.

Here he is for the first two paragraphs saying how much he is behind the troops and then uses the next two paragraphs to slam their work. Here is what Jon is not understanding. President Bush makes his decisions based on information given to him by the Generals in the field. Each time he slams the President on not doing his homework, he is also ONCE AGAIN slamming the Generals and the military. In a post-Vietnam world, the American people do not like to hear our military slammed, especially by a man that began his political career by kissing Ted Kennedy's butt and besmearching the Vietnam War Heroes.