"I sincerely apologize to anyone in the military who took my words literally."
You are a writer, that is how you make your living.
You know what you write has meaning. You meant it.
You got called on it and now you backtrack?
Stand up for what you believe! Stand up and defend your words!
You are a troop hating leftist sissy.
JJ
His first line in this articlestates;
"I knew when I used the word "mercenary" in my Tuesday column that I was being highly inflammatory."
Which means he chose the word carefully and not only knew what affect it would have, but counted on it. Like a typical liberal, he then claims he was misunderstood.