<p>Ofcourse a Kerry aide is going to say that. What do you expect him to tell CNN that Kerry MENT to insult the army. Why can’t you just admit that this guy *<strong><em>ed up, just like Foley *</em></strong>ed up, just like anyother politican has ****ed up in the past. This really isnt brain surgery</p>
<p>Golani, calm down. Now ask yourself: Who would know what was in the planned speech? As to comparing Kerry to Foley, do you really mean to write that? Yes, Kerry did a bad job of delivering his line in a routine campaign appearance at a Junior College. No, he didn’t mean to insult American troops, who, as a veteran himself he has been very supprtive of. Do you really think that flubbing your lines in a low-key campaign speech really is on the same level as trying to seduce teenagers?</p>
<p>The liberal crocodile tears about the deaths in Iraq are just hard for me to swallow – it seems insincere to me. I find it hard to believe that people who never miss an opportunity to berate those who serve and protect this country really care about how many troops died in Iraq this month. Some of you never miss an opportunity to say that those who serve in the military are either stupid or criminal. </p>
<p>Those who serve do so voluntarily. They follow orders, but they knew what they were getting into when they signed up.
I’m sure that the people who planned this war didn’t expect it to be over in six months. They knew it would be tough, and are committed to seeing the job done. </p>
<p>By the way, how many Americans died in traffic accidents this month? Since something like 45,000 die each year, I’d guess 3000-4000 died in October. At least the troops in Iraq died for a reason. Let me pre-empt those of you who will charge that there is not purpose in Iraq. Those who serve seem to think they are there for a reason.</p>
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Actually, the left wing nutjob was the Kerry aide trying to do damage control for an idiotic statement of his boss. Kerry should have been the one to say he made a mistake and that should have been his only response. The reason he did not do so is because his original statment in the video is what he actually intended to say and his aide is merely covering for him. How do I know what Kerry intended? Kerry’s statment fits his pattern of un-American comments about the United States military. I am sick of Kerry demonizing the US military from his comments during Vietnam to today. When I read someone like you trying to justify what cannot be justified, I pretty much want to scream. You are not stupid and neither is Kerry. The only appropriate response of Kerry or any of his defenders is to say “I regret the comment and I apologize to the US military.” There is no other appropriate response from an honerable person. Instead what we get is Kerry blasting the Republicans for pointing out his stupidity. Kerry’s behavior is simply shameful.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering. What percentage of troops serving in Iraq today have college degrees?</p>
<p>I am not comparing Foley to Kerry, I was just saying that some politicians are idiots</p>
<h2>“I’m just wondering. What percentage of troops serving in Iraq today have college degrees?”</h2>
<p>What’s your point momof2inca? That a college degree = intelligence? Ha! John Kerry proves that one not to be true. </p>
<p>(Forgive me I misunderstand the nature of your question btw.)</p>
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<p>I don’t think the guys in the reserves had a clue what they were getting into when they signed up.</p>
<p>Kerry is described in one word - IDIOT!!</p>
<p>and to SEE/HEAR the horrendous statement he made about education vs ending up in Iraq just proves it 
- his supposed idea of a joke in that speach certainly bomb’d - no pun intended either - same mindset as Limbaugh!</p>
<p>The video of this little speech has been on the news here - in his home state - over and over and over - there is NO doubt - and to hear the chuckles from the audience after he said it!!! oooooooooo man uugghhhhhhhhhhhhh no words</p>
<p>I’m not sure why you would ask the question, but according to this site,
<a href=“http://ask.afpc.randolph.af.mil/pubaffairs/release/2006/09/AugDemographics.asp[/url]”>http://ask.afpc.randolph.af.mil/pubaffairs/release/2006/09/AugDemographics.asp</a>
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<p>From this site, <a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026</a> 28% of the US population has at least a bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>Mathmom, I can’t imagine that those in the reserves missed the fact that they were signing up with the MILITARY.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to make a point. At least I don’t think I am. I guess I wonder about this because I know that as a mom of a 19-year-old son I would want him to join the military as one option of many in front of him; not as the only way to make a living or as the result of bad decisions previously made. I know this line of inquiry is not politically correct, but I’m just really curious. Are most of the soldiers – not reserves – in Iraq there because it was truly an option of many “good options” or because they felt it was the only “viable option” for them in their circumstances (i.e. they were lower income and saw this as good pay, or they had lower education opportunities)? Obviously, some are there because they believe in the cause above any personal gain. I sincerely do not wish to offend, only to know the percentages of highly educated men and women serving in Iraq.</p>
<p>On average, I’d say the military is pretty well educated. There was a recent article in the Boston Globe about older people (our age!!!) signing up. Some people are just patriotic, I guess.</p>
<p>I don’t accept the notion that anyone signs up to join one of the branches of the armed forces because there are no other options. On CC, people constantly stress the many options for education – community colleges, trade schools, and something like 2000 four year schools. In fact, the armed forces DO have standards such that not just anyone would qualify. It’s not just misfits and rejects.</p>
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<p>Per our 11 oclock news in Kerry’s home state - the fall out has begun - as RAZOR shows above - there are now others who have can’d him - and this guy wants to run for president again - OMYGOD!!</p>
<p>“The liberal crocodile tears about the deaths in Iraq are just hard for me to swallow – it seems insincere to me. I find it hard to believe that people who never miss an opportunity to berate those who serve and protect this country really care about how many troops died in Iraq this month.”</p>
<p>That is, frankly, disgusting. Do you think we are any less likely to have friends, families, uncles or aunts, cousins, sons or daughters, fathers or mothers there than anyone else? Do you think our kids are less likely to go to school with friends whose fathers come back in pine boxes, or that we are less likely to work in health services bursting at the seams with veterans with PTSD that the Veterans Administration can’t afford to treat? Or that we feel less when we see neighbors walking around with artificial limbs for the rest of their lives? Or, in my particular case, that we don’t see boys, hardly men, coming home addicted to prescription painkillers, but whom the Armed Services have spat out like so much trash?</p>
<p>Maybe you find it hard to believe because you are so out of touch with what people go through in war that you think it is just a walk in the park. Just the usual from the chickenhawks. </p>
<p>No liberal, here. Just call me “disgusted”.</p>
<p>Thanks, sjmom. Those statstics are for the Air Force men and women. What percent of Iraq troops are Air Force as opposed to Marines, Army, Navy?</p>
<p>I am looking forward - to Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, Dem house leader and party leader respectively -fully supporting John Kerry and his claim his statement was really about George Bush</p>
<p>As soon as they come out of hiding -that is</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK with that one</p>
<p>4.7 percent of enlisted forces have a bachelor’s degree and 49% of officers. Makes it pretty clear, doesn’t it, who ends up being cannon fodder, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I am amused by the brouhaha about Kerry’s remarks. I can’t imagine what the Republicans are thinking when they actually draw attention to the remarks–it’s clear they’re aimed at Bush, and all it does is remind the public that we’re mired in Iraq.</p>
<p>I think it was a Freudian slip, also. He should have said that it was a “slip of the lip,” apologized for mis-speaking and moved on.</p>
<p>“They are dying at a rate of 50-100 a month…for what?”</p>
<p>You do know that there approximately 1000 casualties per year even before the war, right? How do the sacrifices made by those people in various places in various ways factor into your argument?</p>