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Can we just slap him with some treason charges and get the hanging over with already...


Bush on Kerry remark: U.S. troops are 'plenty smart'

QUOTEPresident Bush will join GOP lawmakers Tuesday in blasting Sen. John Kerry for telling a group of college students they could either work hard in school or "get stuck in Iraq."

"Even in the midst of a heated campaign season, there are still some things we should all be able to agree on, and one of the most important is that every one of our troops deserves our gratitude and respect," Bush will say in a speech, the text of which was released by the White House.

Kerry told reporters in Seattle, Washington, that the remark was a "botched joke" meant to target the president, not U.S. troops.

Bush, who is to deliver his comments on Kerry at 5 p.m. Tuesday, adds that U.S. troops deserve the full support of the government.

"The senator's suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and shameful," Bush said. "The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots -- and Senator Kerry owes them an apology."

Republicans unleashed a firestorm of criticism against Kerry after the Vietnam veteran's remarks on Monday, but Kerry said Tuesday that he made a mistake.

"The White House's attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe," the Massachusetts senator said. "It's a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics."

Kerry's comment did not sit well even with leading members of his own party. A number of top Democrats told CNN they were upset with the senator for giving the Republicans election-time ammunition -- even if the GOP was hyping the remark.

"He has already cost us one election. The guy just needs to keep his mouth shut until after the election," a top Democratic strategist said Tuesday.

Before Kerry's clarification, White House press secretary Tony Snow, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, lambasted the four-term senator and demanded he apologize.

A CNN poll suggests that Iraq is the second-most important issue, behind the economy, as voters ponder for whom to cast their ballots in next week's midterms.

fruedian slip about the true feelings THIS democratic party has for the military.

not really suprising at this time... he's always been a social clutz and can't read three words off a card without getting two of them wrong.

but better yet, HE'S A SENATOR. HE VOTED FOR THE WAR, just like all these other flippin libdems.

so, he along with his fellow senators agreed to send troops to Iraq. and he can't even remember that...

Kerry has become a complete fake, despite what he was or wasn't when he was wearing a uniform.

I honestly want to just vote for Bill Gates. In fact, i think all votes not cast should count for Bill Gates.

I can't believe Kerry would say something like this. He has always said that he supports the troops and that's why he wants the US out of Iraq. I didn't know calling your soldiers idiots is a way of supporting them

he misread his card,.. i heard what the card is supposed to say

he was SUPPOSED to say "get *us* stuck in Iraq."

it was an anti-bush joke. not funny, not really a joke.

but he didn't seem to mind it when he thought that was what the card said.

i say make him eat his words.

I don't really care what it was suppose to say. The point is, he said what he did and he definitely needs to apologize for it

QUOTESen. John Kerry apologized Wednesday for a "poorly stated joke," which the Massachusetts senator says was aimed at the president but was widely perceived as a slam on U.S. troops.

"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended," he said in a written statement.

"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 [was] never intended to refer to any troop," he said.

"It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy," he said. "I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops."

The White House quickly issued a response, saying, "Sen. Kerry's apology to the troops for his insulting comments came late, but it was the right thing to do."

Kerry canceled plans to campaign for fellow Democrats after the GOP began hammering him over his comments to college students about getting "stuck in Iraq."

President Bush's 2004 presidential rival -- who told a radio host Wednesday he was sorry for what he called a "botched joke" -- will not appear with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bob Casey on Wednesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Democratic official said.

Source:http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/ ... index.html

Holy fuck... honestly, that has to be the funniest damn thing I've ever seen! Shut down! lol

LMFAO!!!!! CDR!!!!! I love it!!

QUOTEI am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown. We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'

John Kerry, 1972.

During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to ¢¢¬‹Å“the perpetuation of war crimes.¢¢¬¢ž¢


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