Sir,

I wish to commend you for your appearance recently at Pasadena City College, though I rather imagine that House Minority Leader Pelosi would not share this sentiment. You have certainly aided the conservative campaigns more than could have been hoped at this late hour.

I am fairly confident that you have heard from a great number of military or military-related individuals on this issue by now, but I could not bring myself to remain silent.

Your words, when taken at face value, are offensive and insulting to the honor and integrity of the U.S. military and all of its members; of this there can be little doubt. If your comments were made in error, you should have said as much the moment you became aware of the rising backlash to them, and apologized for speaking in a manner that could so easily have been misunderstood. You would not be hearing from me, nor likely many others, had you done so.

Offer a real apology to every American in uniform, instead of attempting to deflect blame for your foolish statement and its consequences. Otherwise, sir, shame on you.

You misinterpreted me because you are stupid or uneducated. In addition, I apologize for anyone of you stupid uneducated people who were offended by something which I clearly didn’t say didn’t say!

You decide. He speaks for himself.

I wish John Kerry would blow himself out his own ass, so I won’t further be reminded how inferior to him I really am.

Say Bryan, it’s a pretty cheap atheist trick I’m about to pull here, but it always warms my black little heart -

Aren’t Christians supposed to forgive?

He said he’s sorry. That’s all you have any right to expect.

Insh’allah.

Enrique on November 1, 2006 at 5:34 PM

It is a cheap trick and a little off base. Forgiving someone is not the same as accepting their apology as a valid apology.

We’re told to forgive regardless of an apology, so as you can see the apology has nothing to do with forgiveness. We forgive people in spite of their wretched selves, not because they’ve asked for it. And if you’ll note, Kerry hasn’t asked for forgiveness anyway. He doesn’t believe he needs it.

Again, as Christians we’re still supposed to forgive him, seeing as hatred harms us more than it harms the object of our hatred, but that doesn’t mean we’re supposed to ignore our own instincts which tell us that Kerry is not telling the truth.

My fellow frenchman, er, socialists, er, UN masters, er, military nincompoops, er, Americans. I am sincerely sorry the fascist republicans are too stupid to understand my elite speak, and they are purposely spewing there hate speech to try and ta ……..

Well, if that is the case, then he and the rest of the lib/dems should look at his defeat at the last presidential election as a misinterpretation at the ballot box.

The False Dervish on November 2, 2006 at 10:11 AM

They did… thats why they went to court over it a few times….

John Kerry, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004, may end up costing his Democrat party a lot as a result of his attack on US troops. During a speech to a student conference, he said that if you don’t study well, you end up in places like Ira….

Well, if that is the case, then he and the rest of the lib/dems should look at his defeat at the last presidential election as a misinterpretation at the ballot box.

“I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown,” Kerry wrote. “We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam.”

Yes indeed! There is no way that Lurch would ever demean our troops. No way at all. /sarc.

Despite the eloquent reasons we gave for John Kerry making a complete apology, it turns out he went with exactly what we said (twice) that he would go with: an apology thats not really an apology, but instead a veiled……

An Attack is never an apology.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Supporting Our Troops [Mark Steyn]

I find the Derb/Jay line, agreeing that Senator Kerry was making a joke about Bush, highly implausible. If you talk to Democrats of the middle-class and upper-middle-class and (in John Heinz Kerry’s case) the neo-Gulf-emir-class, you’ll have heard the same thing a thousand times: these poor fellows in Iraq, they’re only there because they’re too poverty-stricken and ill-educated so they couldn’t become Senators and New York Times reporters and tenured Queer Studies professors like normal Americans do. That is, in fact, what they mean by the claim that they “support our troops”: they want to bring them home and retrain them so they’re not forced into taking jobs as Bush’s torturers and thugs. It’s part of the same condescension as describing soldiers as “our children”. If a 22-year old intern wants to drop to the Oval Office broadloom, she’s a grown woman exercising her freedom of choice. But, if a 28-year old guy wants to serve in Iraq, he’s a poor wee misguided Grade Six drop-out who doesn’t know any better. John Kerry’s soundbite is interesting not because it’s the umpteenth self-inflicted wound by Mister Nuance but because it gets right to the heart of the Democrats’ “support” for the troops.

This exemplifies something I admire about Mark Steyn, his tendency to redirect our thinking to a larger or higher issue.

Personally, I believe he meant every word he said BEFORE the excuses started happening.

I would like to demand that Senator Kerry resign his position. No (real) apology required. Just resign. You have offended thousands of military personnel and family as well as most Americans, including a large part of your own party. On what grounds?…..

/what can I say… I get Rush, Hannity, Savage, Ingraham, Colmes and Bell.

//talk radio junkie

There is an important difference between saying “Kerry is an elitist bastard with a clear contempt for the military” and saying “Democrats, in general, have a fundamental disdain for the military that makes them, as a whole, unfit for leadership”…

True. Point taken.

Puritan1648 on November 1, 2006 at 9:21 PM

Yeah, well, the point is blurred, ain’t it?

Kerry is a Democrat.

He’s the media’s lil Dem whore.

This is like liberal suicide. And I wonder why they didn’t leave a note.