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Oct 31 2006

Michael Ramirez on John Kerry – Educate Yourselves or Youâ€™ll Get Stuck in Iraq

Posted by Flap in Election 2006, George W. Bush, Iraq War, John Kerry, Michael Ramirez, Politics

John Kerry Watch: Kerry WARNS Students – Educate Yourselves or Youâ€™ll Get Stuck in Iraq

The Quote:

â€œYou know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you donâ€™t, you get stuck in Iraq.â€

Audio here.

Video here.

Kerry responds

The impact:

A Democratic congressman told ABC News Tuesday, “I guess Kerry wasn’t content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too.”

Allah has Kerry responds to right-wing chickenhawk â€œnut-jobsâ€; Update: Source says comments were a joke gone wrong

An October SURPRISE?

YOU BETCHA……….

Update:

All Scheduled Kerry Functions for 11/1/06 cancelled. Via Hugh Hewitt.

Iowa candidate asks Kerry to cancel campaign visit

A Democratic Congressional candidate from Iowa is canceling a campaign event later this week with Senator John Kerry.
Brucy Braley says Kerry’s recent comments about the Iraq war were inappropriate.

Braley is running against Republican Mike Whalen in Iowa’s First District congressional race. It’s a contest considered to be one of the most competitive House races in the country.

Blogosphere:

John Kerry Watch: Kerry WARNS Students – Educate Yourselves or Youâ€™ll Get Stuck in Iraq

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Oct 31 2006

John Kerry Watch: Kerry WARNS Students – Educate Yourselves or You’ll Get Stuck in Iraq

Posted by Flap in Iraq War, Liberal Morons, Morons, Politics

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, left, speaks in support of gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, who is joined by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., at a rally held at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Oct. 30, 2006.

Hot Air: John Kerry on Americaâ€™s lazy, uneducated military

The Quote:

Audio here.

Video here.

All Flap can say is MORON.

Now, Senator John McCain is calling on Kerry to apologize.

Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education. Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn’t live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks.

And Kerry should apologize……..

Update:

The White House Slams Kerry:

The White House accused Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of troop-bashing, seizing on a comment the Democrat made to California students that those unable to navigate the country’s education system “get stuck in Iraq.”

“Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who’ve given their lives in this,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said. “This is an absolute insult.”

Update #2:

Â Senator Kerry’s response:

Kerry, who is considering another run for the White House in 2008, angrily fired back.
His statement called Republicans “assorted right-wing nut jobs.”

And at a hastily arranged news conference in Seattle, Kerry said: “I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy.”

Kerry said the comment in question was “a botched joke about the president and the president’s people, not about the troops … and they know that’s what I was talking about.”

Update #3

Â American Legion to Sen. Kerry: Apologize Now

The National Commander of The American Legion called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for suggesting that American troops in Iraq are uneducated.

“As a constituent of Senator Kerry’s I am disappointed. As leader of The American Legion, I am outraged,” said National Commander Paul A. Morin. “A generation ago, Sen. Kerry slandered his comrades in Vietnam by saying that they were rapists and murderers. It wasn’t true then and his warped view of today’s heroes isn’t true now.”

Update #4

AMVETS Calls on Senator to Apologize to Troops

AMVETS’ National Commander expressed disbelief and disappointment in the comments by Senator John Kerry Monday.

â€œFor the Senator to suggest that todayâ€™s United States military is made up of uneducated men and women who didnâ€™t â€˜study hardâ€™ or â€˜make an effort to be smartâ€™ is ridiculous and appalling,â€ AMVETS National Commander Thomas C. McGriff said Tuesday. â€œThe men and women in uniform today make up the most advanced, highly-educated force ever seen. To suggest otherwise is a slap in the face to every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine and Coast Guardsman who has spent countless hours working to better him or herself. This is also an insult to every person and organization who has worked tirelessly to provide our troops and their families with education benefits.

â€œSenator Kerry should retract his remarks and apologize immediately,â€ McGriff said after listening to comments made by Senator Kerry at a political rally in Pasadena, Calif., Monday. â€œIt is especially outrageous coming from a member of the U.S. Senate.â€

Stay tuned…..

Read what the others in the blogosphere are saying.

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Oct 31 2006

Global War on Terror Watch: Pakistani Airstrikes Spark Protests

Posted by Flap in Afghanistan, Global War on Terror, Pakistan, Terrorists

Pakistani activists from Islami Jamiat Tulba — the student wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami fundamentalist party — shout slogans after setting US flags alight during a protest in Karachi. Radical Islamic leaders in Pakistan called for mass protests 31 October after around 80 people died in an airstrike on a suspected Al-Qaeda-linked training camp at a religious school.

AP: Pakistani airstrike sparks protests

Pakistan’s army spokesman said Tuesday that the military used intelligence from U.S.-led coalition forces in a helicopter attack that left 80 people dead. Thousands of angry tribesmen decried both governments over the killings.

Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the chief army spokesman, told The Associated Press that American forces did not take part in Monday’s attack on a religious school, or madrassa, that Pakistan called a front for an al-Qaida training camp.

But he said his government received intelligence as part of long-standing cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition forces in
Afghanistan to battle terrorists operating along the porous border between the countries.

“Intelligence sharing was definitely there, but to say they (the coalition) have carried out the operation, that is absolutely wrong,” Sultan said. “One doesn’t know … what was the percentage of help (was provided).”

Sultan later contacted the AP to deny he had made the remarks.

Ok, whatever!

How much did the Coalition forces contribute to yesterday’s airstrike is irrelevant. The fact that the airstrike happened and struck into Pakistan is noteworthy. But is it enough?

Pakistani students from Islami Jamiat-e-Talba group shout slogans and burn an effigy of U.S. President George W.Bush during a protest held in Peshawar October 31, 2006 to condemn an army attack on a religious school in the Chenagai area of the Bajaur tribal region bordering Afghanistan . Over 15,000 armed Pakistani tribesmen protested on Tuesday against a Pakistan Army helicopter attack on an al-Qaeda-linked madrasa in Bajaur tribal region that killed around 80 suspected militants.

Bill Roggio has more about the airstrikes.

How was the attack carried out?

Also Alexis Debat reports U.S. ‘drones’ â€“ actually this would be Predator UAVs, conducted the strike, and not Pakistani helicopters. An American intelligence source informs us that the Pakistani Army does not possess the capabilities to conduct precision night strikes such as this attack. There are several possibilities here: it could have indeed been a Predator strike, or, more risky would be a strike by U.S. C-130 gunships. Conducting manned strikes over Pakistani airspace has its risks, including that of a shoot down and follow on rescue mission. The Asia Time’s Syed Saleem Shahzad reports this was a ‘NATO airstrikeâ€ by â€œhelicopter gunships,â€ however it is highly unlikely this strike occurred under the aegis of NATO. Look for signs of Task Force 145 having carried out this raid, with unmanned Predators firing Hellfire missiles.

The protests will come (children were killed, the Korans were burned in the attack) but the message is continuing to be pounded into the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

America is the STRONGER HORSE

Debris lies scattered from a collapsed Islamic school which was destroyed by Pakistani helicopters in Khar.

In this photo released by the Press Information Department of Northwest Frontier (NWFP) Province, Senior Minister of Pakistans North West Frontier Province Siraj ul-Haq, who announced he would resign in protest, addresses a gathering, Monday, Oct. 30, 2006, in Chingai village near Khar, the main town of Bajur, at the Pakistani tribal area along the Afghan border. Pakistani troops backed by missile-firing helicopters killed an estimated 80 militants when they destroyed a purported al-Qaida-linked training facility near the Afghan border, the military said.