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ORIGINAL: CrappyDom

Ken,

When are you going to applogize to the troops in Iraq for caring less about their lives than about petty domestic politics?

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Thrust into the midst of the midterm election campaign, Sen. John Kerry apologized Wednesday to "any service member, family member or American who was offended" by remarks deemed by Republicans and Democrats alike to be insulting to U.S. forces in Iraq. Source: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061101/D8L4H92G0.html

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KERRY: These guys have failed America.  The people who owe an apology are people like Donald Rumsfeld, who didn’t send enough troops, who didn’t listen to the generals, who has made every mistake in the book.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle


OK if that is the case, then why did he appologize?

1) Get Firefox 2. It has an inline spellchecker.

2) I notice you refer to an apology which you never really read. Here's the text.

"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.

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.

It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. 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."



But hey, if YOU would rather avoid discussion of the GOPs failed policies ( 3000 dead GI's and 300k - 900k dead Iraqis... ) and use Kerrys slip as a diversion, knock yourself out, Party Whore.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

I guess if you're going to misinterpret his words, and take offense there's nothing anyone can do.

After all, you CHOOSE to misinterpret his words.

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ORIGINAL: Badkitty0810

Quivver, do the other right-wingers know that you're kinky?  Can they kick you out for that?  =) 

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ORIGINAL: Badkitty0810

Quivver, do the other right-wingers know that you're kinky?  Can they kick you out for that?  =) 

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ORIGINAL: Quivver

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ORIGINAL: Badkitty0810

Quivver, do the other right-wingers know that you're kinky?  Can they kick you out for that?  =) 

I hate to be the one to break it to you BadKitty but there's a bunch more where I came from.  ........... it's not 1940 anymore if you've not noticed.

Well said, my friend.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

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By calling them failures so to speak because they all didn't get college educations.

How do you get THERE, from HERE:

“You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.” (John Kerry, October 30, 2006)

Where does COLLEGE come in?

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Should Kerry Apologize?

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

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By calling them failures so to speak because they all didn't get college educations.

How do you get THERE, from HERE:

“You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.” (John Kerry, October 30, 2006)

Where does COLLEGE come in?

Not to get involved in a poltical argument, but dissecting his statement on purely logical grounds, he did indeed insult everyone in uniform.  Regardless of their level of eduction, HS or college or whatever:

A. You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart,

B. you can do well,

C. and if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.

In logical terms:

If A then B otherwise C.

Substituting the key assumptions:

If Education, then Success, otherwise Military Service.

In other words, parsed, and the two conditional statements broken out:

Success=Education
Failure=Military Service

It's an insult to the men and women of the military, pure and simple, and I don't see how anything other than a blind partisan can see it any other way.

Even more of an insult is his wider definition of "Success".  According to his own word, it includes an "effort" to "be smart".  By inference, then, failure means that you didn't succeed in "being smart".

Which means that the men and women in the armed services are dumb, since they "failed".

Again, I don't see how any critical thinking person could see this as anything other than an insult.  And I see no "joke" about Bush here, either.

FirmKY