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Originally Posted by peragro
Well, from your paraphrasing it sounds like he is intimating that soldiers in Iraq are basically dropouts that didn't study hard and that being a soldier in Iraq is not a "good job".
If you'd like to provide more so that I can look at it in context I might revise what my current opinion is. However, Kerry has been less than charitable to US troops in the past, to put it mildly, so I'm sure that his past behaviour should be taken into account when looking at the comment in context.
And sorry to disappoint you. I'm not a political junkie so I'm not always aware of what this person said or that person said. Esp. Kerry; he's not in danger of being President anymore so I kind of ignore him unless I need help going to sleep.
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This is the usual response. Of course, the damn lefties really knew that Rush was talking about that one actual phony soldier, not soldiers in general. But giving Kerry the very reasonable benefit of the doubt is out of the question.
No more context is needed, it's pretty much the gist of what he said. But it was a slip of his awkward tongue. He left out a few crucial words. The guy is actually a very boneheaded communicator. You haven't noticed?
Here's the post I asked you to look at cause I don't want to type it all again:
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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Let's talk about hypocrisy. Rush is a sacred cow but Move-on.org are fair game? How many senators came out against Move-on??
And yes, I do suspect that Rush was referring to just the one soldier, the one actual phony soldier, in the first remark anyway. Last night on Abrams' MSNBC show, Lars Larson, the minor league Rush, remarked, when Abrams showed the footage of Kerry saying the "stuck in Iraq" remark and then the "botched joke" defense, that "it WAS NOT a botched joke!!"
Please. Kerry is a stumbling clod of a speaker but he's not a full on idiot. He is in no way going to get up and diss the troops like that. He meant to say Bush got us stuck in Iraq. He would be 1 million times more likely to try to diss Bush than the troops.
But ol' Lars wants us to understand what Rush was trying to say and in the same breath demonstrates that he is utterly unwilling to return the favor.
Lars Larson -- somehow manages to be a bigger horse's heine than Limbaugh, and that's saying something.
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If you want to get a glimpse of what happened during the famous tossing of medals incident, consult your library resource and see if you can get the DVD of "Going Upriver: John Kerry's long war." No funds need be devoted to anything Kerry.
The thought may be anathema to you but as often as you reference it, it just might be useful to get a more full picture of it. What you refer to as him being unkind, etc. to the troops was very likely him speaking the truth of what was going down. Plenty of vets have said things were outta control.
I don't doubt that I could have behaved similarly. Trashing the guys was not the point, pulling the plug on the misbegotten lost cause of a disaster was the point.
10-07-2007, 01:34 AM
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