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Whatever, all the Bush one-liners leading up to it make it perfectly clear who he was talking about.
Actually all the Republicans jumping on this without hesitation may have unwittingly shot themselves in the foot here. At first glance it may seem like a nice distraction or some red meat for the base, however in focusing in on it they're bringing up a subject many of them are trying desperatly to avoid right now, the war in Iraq. You can't talk about "the troops" without talking about "the war".
Time will tell.
Actually all the Republicans jumping on this without hesitation may have unwittingly shot themselves in the foot here.
It was actually a case of Chimpy being too stupid to realize he was being called stupid. The outrage expressed by Chimpy, and other GOP mouthpieces, is simply a case of having nothing else to run on. As far as the real issues are concerned...they got nothin'.
You can try to spin it, but you cannot change what he said.
The people he was insulting are not as stupid as you and Kerry think they are. There may have been a lot of one liners about the President in his little piece of rhetoric, but Kerry's history shows the true context of his message. He thinks soldiers are stupid and lazy and has historically all but equated them to neanderthols and worse, has called them war criminals.
As for having something to run on....other than "we hate Bush" ... just what has your party offered? Your bunch is like a group of school kids drawing stick figures of the teacher on the sidewalk, thinking it's cute, when it is just childish.
Bring some substance to the table and maybe we'll have something to work with...until then, you have nothing!
Can specifically cite a specific statement by Kerry where he actually called America soldiers in Viet Nam "war criminals"? Having read the transcripts of his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971, I saw where he described acts, relayed to him by those who witnessed them.
In an interview, given before he testified, he stated:
<blockquote>I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.</blockquote>
He did not blame the grunts who were knee-deep in the rice paddies...he faulted those by whose authority the war in Viet Nam was prosecuted. It was they, not the men serving putting their lives on the line every day, who set the policies and gave the orders that he described as war criminals.
So, why don't you take your own advice and quit drawing stick figures on the sidewalk, quit setting up straw-men, and bring something of substance to the table?
LMAO, I haven't been watching the news in the last couple of days and now this. John "I'm Ready to Serve" Kerry hands the GOP political gold just by opening his mouth. Man, what a fucking tool. It just goes to prove liberals will always shoot themselves in the foot because they can't always bottle in the things they really believe in.
And when a conservative apologizes, it's never enough for the liberals. They want blood. :chains:
I think part of the right-wing kerfuffle over Kerry's remark has less to do with it being a botched joke at Chimpy's expense and more to do with it being what they (the right wing) actually think about the troops in Iraq.
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I think part of the right-wing kerfuffle over Kerry's remark has less to do with it being a botched joke at Chimpy's expense and more to do with it being what they (the right wing) actually think about the troops in Iraq.
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I have no idea. How do you think they feel about Rumsfeld's handling of the war?
The White House and the NRCC are grasping at this straw like a drowning man after any stray twig that will keep him afloat. It takes the focus off of Iraq. Republican candidates in tight races are treating Chimpy like kryptonite, telling him to stay away. Why? One word...Iraq.
Iraq is the misbegotten child of the Bush administration and the GOP controlled Congress. And they can no longer keep this monster locked in the closet. It weighs on every Republican congressional candidate who has rubber-stamped every decision regarding Iraq made by Chimpy and Co. It is even weighing on those who haven't.
Iraq is the real issue the White House and GOP are hiding from. And they will do anything to escape the consequences, both political and legal, of the decisions made in the run up to the war and after the invasion. So, just remember, this dust-up over Kerry's flubbed joke at Chimpy's expense is all the GOP has. They are morally and intellectually bankrupt, they can no longer defend their policies in Iraq, so they duck and cover with anything they can grasp.
