Don't Go Into The Light

Speaking as a 20 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, I'd like to let John Kerry know that I didn't join because I was lazy and stupid. Even more insulting than his statement is this attempt to blame others for his greasy smear against the troops:

Washington – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:

Nut-jobs? What Kerry said was clear as day. But if you quote it, you're a nut-job?

“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

Yes I do think a veteran would - if he's in the Democratic Party. Kerry forgets about his own remarks about our troops "terrorizing women and children in the dark of night", and the infamous verbal criminal conviction bestowed on our troops by his pal Murtha. Oh, and I did serve - a hell of a lot longer than Kerry, too. Having met Kerry's criteria, I suppose he would respect my right to speak out:

Mr. Kerry, you're a despicable excuse for a human being. To denigrate me and the millions of veterans and active duty in order to get a cheap shot during a political speech shows you to be lacking in both intelligence and soul.

Ahem. Back to Kerry's misdirection:

I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.

Typical - drag in the sick guy as a sympathetic victim - maybe it will distract someone from Kerry's sad remarks about our military professionals.

The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.

This entire line has been proven a lie time and time again. Oh, and when did Katrina become a country?

Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.”

"Real Men"? Going for laughs won't get him out of this. Kerry has shown his contempt for servicemen over and over again, even as he aspired to lead them. Thank God he didn't get the chance.

Kerry screwed up big this time. And has the gall to declare himself a "real man" while he tries to blame his mistakes on President Bush and "right wing nut-jobs". In the meantime, real men (and women) are putting their asses on the line in Iraq and elsewhere. And Mr. Kerry better hope for all our sakes that what he thinks about them isn't true.

Update: Kerry makes a statement to the press, says it was a botched joke. I'm hoping to link a site with video soon.

Update 2: As usual, Hot Air has it!