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US military 'plenty smart': Bush hits back
Herald Sun ^ | 1 November 2006 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 10/31/2006 10:27:27 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

US PRESIDENT George W. Bush today blasted Democratic Senator John Kerry for saying people who neglected their education "get stuck in Iraq" and demanded an apology to troops.

In a bruising throwback to their 2004 war for the White House exactly one week before US legislative elections, Mr Bush called the comment "insulting and shameful'' and Senator Kerry shot back that the charge was "crazy'' and based on a "lie".

Senator Kerry had told a university audience on Monday: "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. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.''

Republicans, worried that the unpopular war in Iraq that has weakened the White House could cost them control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, or both on November 7, gleefully pounced on Senator Kerry's comment to underscore their campaign theme that Democrats are weak on national security.

That led the senator, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, to explain in an exasperated and angry tone today that his comments were "a botched joke about the president and the president's people, not about the troops".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fnkerry; georgewbush; kerrydumbiraqgaffe; smarterthankerry; usmilitary
I do believe F'n Kerry, as Lard Ass Kennedy says, is "dead in the water"...
1 posted on 10/31/2006 10:27:29 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher
He needs to broaden the attack. Kerry isn't running for anything.

The rats turned the Foley thing into an attack on the entire party. Don't waste ammo on effin Kerry. Make the issue the DEMOCRATS' attitude and values.
2 posted on 10/31/2006 10:34:34 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Hey my cousin gradudate from College he is in US Miltary now he is no DUMMMY Senator KERRY


3 posted on 10/31/2006 10:39:48 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Aussie Dasher

lurch trick or treatin

we have just seen past his words, and into his soul

his minds, and minders were absent, and Skerrry stumbled


4 posted on 10/31/2006 10:41:25 PM PST by petertare (!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

the senator, a decorated Vietnam War veteran

Yeah, decorated with medals from self inflicted and superficial wounds. What a bunch of crap


5 posted on 10/31/2006 10:45:14 PM PST by RacerX1128
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To: Aussie Dasher
99.9 percent of the enlisted forces have at least a high school education, and 73.3 percent have been to college.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/31/161824.shtml
6 posted on 10/31/2006 10:46:07 PM PST by Reform4Bush
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To: Aussie Dasher

The Democratic Party is on suicide watch....again.


7 posted on 10/31/2006 11:22:33 PM PST by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: Reform4Bush

"99.9 percent of the enlisted forces have at least a high school education, and 73.3 percent have been to college. "

I'd add that that well exceeds the average of the general population. It's the best educated, best trained and most high-tech military in the history of the world. Kerry's implication that these are dumb losers is not only offensive but patently false.


8 posted on 11/01/2006 1:49:54 AM PST by quesney
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To: All; Aussie Dasher

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The RIGHT STUFF our U.S. Military is really made of:


The Words:
http://www.Freerepublic.com/~ALOHARONNIE


The Pictures:
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm


The Heroics:
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361

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9 posted on 11/01/2006 1:50:41 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com.)
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To: All; Fido969

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JOHN KERRY =


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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10 posted on 11/01/2006 1:52:16 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com.)
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