Free Republic

RALEIGH (AP) — State Democratic Party chairman Jerry Meek on Wednesday called on fellow Democrat John Kerry to apologize for his comments about U.S. troops in Iraq that critics, including President Bush, have called disrespectful. Kerry, the Massachusetts senator and 2004 presidential candidate, told a group of California students earlier this week that that people unable to succeed in the U.S. educational system could "get stuck in Iraq." Kerry has said he mangled prepared comments that were meant to be a joke critical of Bush's Iraq policy, but others have called it troop-bashing in the week before the midterm election....