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Here’s the transcript:

“Dan, this is Congressman ‘Pete’ Stark, and I just got your fax and you don’t know what you’re talking about. So if you care about enlisted people you wouldn’t have voted for that thing, either. But probably somebody put you up to this, and I’m not sure who it was, but I doubt if you could spell half the words in the letter. Somebody wrote it for you so I don’t pay much attention to it, but I’ll call you back later and let you tell me more about why you think you’re such a great G_d-damn hero and why you think that this general and the defense department who forced these poor enlisted (bitter laughter) guys to do what they should shouldn’t be held to account. That’s the issue. So if you want to stick it to a bunch of enlisted guys have your way, but if you want to get to the bottom of people who forced this awful program in...Iraq, then you should understand more about it than you obviously do. Thanks.”

Basically, Stark was responding to a letter written by a veteran, saying that the veteran obviously didn't write it, because he couldn't possibly understand all the big words in it, and concluded by saying the equivalent of "drop dead", but that he would call back to discuss the realities of the Iraq war with the "dimwit" soldier, sometime soon.

Indeed, Stark seems to possess all the attributes necessary to be a fine committed Marxist. Classic A$$ole.