The Last Word on A Distraction

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 07:33:17 PM EST
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From General Clark:

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box. And we should do it not on the basis of personalities or stereotypes, but on the basis of results. Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct.
On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms. Surely, we owe it to them to push aside the distractions and bring the focus back to the essence of this election:

Iraq.
. . . John Kerry made a mistake trying to joke about "getting stuck in Iraq." But this election isn't about John Kerry; he isn't running. But, for a crazy day or two, his gaffe has provided a powerful distraction to an election shaping up to be a referendum on the President's national security policy, and his mission in Iraq, in particular. We can not allow the most powerful country in the world to get sidetracked when American lives and the future of our leadership in the world is at stake.

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xx (1.00 / 0) (#2)
by jimakaPPJ on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 06:37:49 AM EST

why he's no longer a general

: Generals (none / 0) (#7)
by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 11:52:42 AM EST

always carry the honorific General even on retirement.
Folks who know something about the military know that.

Truth shines through (1.00 / 0) (#3)
by jimakaPPJ on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 06:57:34 AM EST

et al - Kerry has now apologized, way too late.

His tardiness demonstrates beyond any doubt that his remarks show his true feelings about the military and national defense. They popped out. Unfiltered, unexpected and blazingly honest.

Kerry is the poster child of the Left. He has little connection to the ordinary people of the country and he believes that he knows better than them, and that if the Moe and Sue people would just shut up and do as he says all would be okay.

Worse, he is incapable of understanding that you cannot negotiate with terrorists. Indeed the belief that you can negotiate with them is at the core of the Left's beliefs and is the driving force behind what they would, and have tried to, base our foreign policy on.

I listened carefully to what Clark had to say during 2004 and finally decided that he was 90% politician and 10% soldier. There is nothing new, all generals are, to one degree or another, politicans. It is the degree to which Clark is that astonished me. It is obvious that his comments are meant to pave the way for 2008 in which he hopes to become Clinton's VP.

: Meanwhile the Commander in Chief (none / 0) (#4)
by aw on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 11:03:49 AM EST

takes orders from the Iraqis and abandons a missing soldier. Way to support the troops, eh, PPJ?

and that's (none / 0) (#1)
by cpinva on Wed Nov 01, 2006 at 10:32:55 PM EST

why he's a general.

that dog won't hunt (none / 0) (#5)
by Deconstructionist on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 11:21:05 AM EST

On what planet do you think the decision not to risk a major conflagration with the potential for inflicting even more U.S troop casualties AND exacerbating local sectarian violence, to possibly find one disobedient soldier is a viable issue?

Sometimes, this place is so insensible it is utterly mind boggling. With ALL the incredibly poor decisions involved in this war that deserve to be and can be made compelling arguments against this administration, you would seek to divert attention to this issue, which would seem to be amiong the most easily defensible?

Hopefully, we will make enough gains despite ourselves to take the House but why don't you guys do us all a favor and not say anything at least until we have actually accomplished that?

I suppose (none / 0) (#6)
by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 11:51:43 AM EST

you understand what you wrote.

I have no idea what you are talking about.


: Well, tell me more speci what you can't understand (none / 0) (#9)
by Deconstructionist on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 01:06:07 PM EST

and I'll explain it, again. I didn't think anything I wrote about the folly of trying to make that decision an issue would be difficult for an English-speaking person to grasp, but if you truly can't understand any of it, all I can suggest is that you have a severe disability.

If you haven't seen some US soldiers' response to (none / 0) (#8)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 11:59:34 AM EST

Kerry's "joke," here it is:

"Halp Us Jon Carry We R Stuck (backward k) in Irak."

One last word on the last word (none / 0) (#10)
by Patrick on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 03:12:26 PM EST

Why is NYT reporting Kerrys said this:

Mr. Kerry's prepared remarks to California students on Monday called for him to say, "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." In his delivery, he dropped the word "us."

The video I saw didn't have "Just ask President Bush" in it either. Was a video a chopped version of the tape or is the NYT not reporting accurately? Because in his delivery I think he also dropped the "just ask" part as well.