John Kerry Said What About Our Troops?
October 31st, 2006 by SpokesbloggetteCheck out what Senator John Kerry says about our troops when he’s in front of a Democrat campaign audience.
In a letter to be sent today, Kingston is now leading the call for Kerry to apologize to the brave men and women who are fighting over in Iraq. We will update later this afternoon.
UPDATE: Kingston and 28 fellow House Republicans sent the following letter to Senator John Kerry:
Dear Senator Kerry:
We are writing to express our outrage over your recent disrespectful and condescending comments concerning our brave troops in Iraq. We demand that you offer a clear and simple apology, without caveat or explanation, to America’s finest.
In case you don’t remember, you told a recent campaign audience, “You know education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and 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.” We don’t know how many of our soldiers you have met, but they are the best and brightest that our nation has to offer and unlike you, Senator, they do not believe they are “stuck in Iraq.”
Senator Kerry, it is bad enough that you disparage their mission at every chance you get, that you ignore any signs of progress or hope, that like the mainstream media you focus only on the bad news and ignore the good news that American troops and their Iraqi allies are bringing to Iraqi families every day, and that you offer no alternatives and no plan for victory in Iraq or in the larger War on Terror. Sadly, this seems to have become a pattern: blame America first and disparage the men and women who serve so bravely in our defense.
We hope you will quickly and clearly apologize and in the future think about thsoe who are in danger, so far away, so that we may remain free to exercise the freedoms here that they are bringing to millions of people over there.