what is it that john kerry said?

Answer 1

Kerry stated that students my get "stuck in Iraq" if they don't study hard and do their homework. People took this as an insult to our troops, and called him on it. He came out with an apology saying that he had no intention of offending those in uniform. He mis read the telepromter (or something to that affect) and botched up a joke directed at Bush and his hadling with the war in Iraq.

Answer 2

The hero of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War said if you don't get smart you'll end up stuck in Iraq . Kerry has long showed his hatred for our military . The first time was when he betrayed his fellow soldiers , some while prisoners of war . In the 70's Kerry was against an all volunteer army because he said it would consist of poor uneducated black & brown people who would be most likely to commit war crimes . The only time he shows interest in a military is when it's the enemy of America . Then he gives aid & comfort to them .

Answer 3

Here's his Exact Words, "You Know, Education, If You Make the Most of It, You Work Hard , You Study Hard, You Do your Homework, You Make an Effort to be Smart you do Well, If You Do not, You get Stuck In Iraq."


His intentions was to Insult our Military, and Stupid People, He's the Only Person is not using his/her Judgment and that's be proven Costly and the Dems aren't going to fall for his Tricks this time.

Answer 4

What he said in no way applied, refered to, or smbolized Bush in any way. What came out was a stupid ignorant comment on our troops. You have to be a blind and bias liberal not to see that.

This is what the troops put on a poster in response to Kerry's empty headed comments.

"HALP US JON CARRY, WE R STUk HERE N IRAK"

Answer 5

He said for anyone who still had any doubts about what kind of person he is he would settle it and made the comment about the troops. What more proof is needed?!

Answer 6

He said that anyone who has to ask that question after its been played on the news and radio non-stop for the last 3 days should be sent to Iraq!

Answer 7

Basically if you are in Iraq, means you didn't succeed in school.

I'm an independent, but other Democrats will say, "He said it wrong poking fun at Bush" is being arrogant and ridiculous.

Answer 8

The senator, in essence, called Mr. Bush stupid.

The context was unmistakable: Texas; the state of denial; stuck in Iraq. No interpretation required.

And Mr. Bush and his minions responded by appearing to be too stupid to realize that they had been called stupid.

They demanded Kerry apologize to the troops in Iraq.

And so he now has.

That phrase — “appearing to be too stupid” — is used deliberately, Mr. Bush.

Because there are only three possibilities here.

One, sir, is that you are far more stupid than the worst of your critics have suggested; that you could not follow the construction of a simple sentence; that you could not recognize your own life story when it was deftly summarized; that you could not perceive it was the sad ledger of your presidency that was being recounted.

This, of course, compliments you, Mr. Bush, because even those who do not “make the most of it,” who do not “study hard,” who do not “do their homework,” and who do not “make an effort to be smart” might still just be stupid, but honest.

No, the first option, sir, is, at best, improbable. You are not honest.

The second option is that you and those who work for you deliberately twisted what Sen. Kerry said to fit your political template; that you decided to take advantage of it, to once again pretend that the attacks, solely about your own incompetence, were in fact attacks on the troops or even on the nation itself.

The third possibility is, obviously, the nightmare scenario: that the first two options are in some way conflated.

That it is both politically convenient for you and personally satisfying to you, to confuse yourself with the country for which, sir, you work.

A brief reminder, Mr. Bush: You are not the United States of America.

You are merely a politician whose entire legacy will have been a willingness to make anything political; to have, in this case, refused to acknowledge that the insult wasn’t about the troops, and that the insult was not even truly about you either, that the insult, in fact, is you.

So now John Kerry has apologized to the troops; apologized for the Republicans’ deliberate distortions.

Thus, the president will now begin the apologies he owes our troops, right?

This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, “look like just a comma.”

This president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.

This president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm’s way.


This president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.

This president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of “plan” after barely two months.

This president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed.

This president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue.

And Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.

We will not receive them, of course.

This president never apologizes.

Not to the troops.

Not to the people.

Nor will those henchmen who have echoed him.

Answer 9

He said that those who weren't smart got college degrees & everyone else got stuck in Iraq. Nobody laughed.

Answer 10

He insinuated that if you did not go to college, you have nothing to do than go into the military.better




and dstr, grow up. He said what he said, so stop trying to shift blame.