Melange a Lurch

Yesterday:
Let me make it crystal clear, as crystal clear as I know how: I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy.

Today:
As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about and never intended to refer to any troop. I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended.

In the brief statement on his web site, Lurch Kerry also attacked President Bush for a “failed security policy.”

Earlier in the day on “Imus in the Morning,” Lurch said he was “sorry about a botched joke” about President Bush who “owes America an apology for this disaster in Iraq.”

Well don’t you feel better now that we know he is sorry? ... I don't think so.

Following is a mélange of statements from actual intelligent people who wrote to the GOPUSA web site and the Hugh Hewitt site. All the words are theirs.

I was the Air Force combat medic who called you yesterday seething with rage over the esteemed senator's comment as I had just returned from Iraq a little over three weeks ago. (from my second tour of duty) As I see it, Mr. Kerry has effectively "non" apologised. He did not say these words in public but released them via his web site...frankly, thats a chicken**** way to go about it. It also arrives 24 hours too late, smacking of the aftershock of a phone call from Bill Clinton basically telling Kerry to get on the bus or be thrown under it.

Kerry's implication that military service is something "smart" people should avoid is downright elitist, and reminiscent of prevailing attitudes from the Vietnam era. His "botched joke" was disrespectful to everyone who has ever served in the U.S. military. We are not a bunch of slack-jawed Gomer Pyles or Forrest Gumps who had no other option but to join the military, as many would have you believe. Today's all-volunteer force is much more highly educated than their predecessors, or even their contemporary civilian counterparts: 99 percent of all service members have at least a high school diploma, and 98 percent of the officers have a bachelor's degree or higher. (Smash, the Indepundit)

He (Kerry) was for the joke before he was against it. What a stupid, stupid man!!

The megalomaniacal failed Presidential Candidate and treasonous John F’n Kerry was lying about his military service and he’s lying now with his unwarranted attacks against all brave Americans serving in our military defending our way-of-life. Shame on him! and on all DemocRats who refer to the self confessed war criminal as a war hero.

Kerry showed the nation what he is: an arrogant, lying, condescending, vicious ideologue who thinks he's better than us ordinary folk. Keep it up Lurch, but watch your back. We, the GOP, love what you're doing, the damage is to your own party, and bad things happen to people who jeapordize the power mad Democratic Party.

I am very disturbed. I am very insulted and very sad that he doesn't understand how highly educated and well trained our military men and women are. (Debra Booth, whose son was killed in Iraq)

Kerry doesn't know because he never spent enough time around them. Remember, he went to Vietnam to injure himself to qualify for 3 purple hearts. As soon as he got his medals, he got out and started his anti military rant. Democrats have sunk very low in the last few generations, but Kerry is their bottom feeder.

I would like to request a new web icon for John Kerry. We need a snake, with a lily livered slimy belly, and a big mouth.

Thank you, John Kerry, for reminding me and the rest of America what an evil alternative you and your party represent for this country.

If you talk to Democrats of the middle-class and upper-middle-class and (in John Heinz Kerry’s case) the neo-Gulf-emir-class, you’ll have heard the same thing a thousand times: these poor fellows in Iraq, they’re only there because they’re too poverty-stricken and ill-educated so they couldn’t become Senators and New York Times reporters and tenured Queer Studies professors like normal Americans do.

That is, in fact, what they mean by the claim that they “support our troops”: they want to bring them home and retrain them so they’re not forced into taking jobs as Bush’s torturers and thugs. It’s part of the same condescension as describing soldiers as “our children”. If a 22-year old intern wants to drop to the Oval Office broadloom, she’s a grown woman exercising her freedom of choice. But, if a 28-year old guy wants to serve in Iraq, he’s a poor wee misguided Grade Six drop-out who doesn’t know any better. John Kerry’s soundbite is interesting not because it’s the umpteenth self-inflicted wound by Mister Nuance but because it gets right to the heart of the Democrats’ “support” for the troops. (Mark Steyn)

God will take care of him in his own time.

Finally, the last word is from my son-in-law:

I'm pissed! I can't believe John F'n Kerry has gone out and denigrated our troops again! This elitist ass is a serial troop defamer. Lt Gen Tom McInerney (ret) said this morning that Kerry owes the troops not an apology, but his resignation. I wholeheartedly agree.

This Veteran will not stand idly by and allow that lying snob to steal the heroism of another generation of Veterans.

Ray Rose, Gulf War Vet