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"Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." -Sen. John Kerry

My opinion is this. I don't think he intentionally set out to insult our armed forces in Iraq. The words that he said probably didn't come out as planned but I think reflect his true beliefs about A. the intelligence level of a person who chooses to serve in the military in the absence of a draft and B. the reasons they choose to serve in the military. I'm not buying that it was a botched joke. What was the joke supposed to be again? Then he at first refuses to apologize but then laters caves into the pressure and does so. That's revealing in and of itself.


The Soldiers Behind the Banner from the blog of Charlie Sykes