Not only is the missing “us” there, but the text as written is even more clearly a slam on Bush and not a comment on the troops.

The joke in the prepared text ends with, “you end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.”

It couldnt be any clearer who is is talking about.

Hey jackie:
A few details of your latest writing are simply untrue. (I am sure you probably know that but it doesn’t stop your side in “Dan Rather” mode of saying them anyway!! Kerry was addressing STUDENTS and talking about them not growing up to be Dumb (Look at Kerry’s quote – Dumb is the opposite of Smart which is what he is trying to tell them to be. So when he says they should grow up to be “Smart” he then menas “So you won’t be “Dumb” like the troops in Iraq!! That’s what he said! Read the quote and look at the film. It was no “Joke” as he now says and even if iot was do you want to follow a so-called leader who wants to turn Iraq into a “Joke” for hias political advantage?? Come on, wake up and stop drinking the Dem Kool-Aid!!

‘Truthmaster’

Regardless of how you try and spin it, in todays economic environment if you don’t study hard, get a good education and are lucky enough to do well, then the Military is the only real other option. And with todays current ‘Foreign policies’, you will go to Iraq if you join the Military.
And as for what I want in a leader; I want Honesty, Honor, Humanity and Humility.
I want Intelligence, Awareness of economic reality, Knowledge of world history, Real interest in Current/historical foreign affairs.
I want a leader who upholds the Constitution.
I want a leader who does not believe the Office of Presidency means they is above the Law.
I want a leader who does not lie about connections between 9/11 and Saddam Hussin just so he can dress up as a ‘War President’

I want to know the TRUTH about 9/11, the War in Iraq.

I don’t drink Kool-Aid, I am not a Democrat.
I am the mother of four sons, I work full time and obviously I am far more aware of the real world then you.
Perhaps, you should find out what exactly what you’ve drinking?

Still lying about what happened.

The tapes validate Kerry’s claim. He was telling more than one joke about Bush. He made no jokes about the troops. The explanation from the Kerry camp about the meaning fits perfectly with the context while the right wing attacks make little sense without taking a limited clip and distorting its meaning. He was saying Bush, not the troops, are stuck in Iraq. This is even clearer once you understand that he left out the “us” but in the full context it is still clearly a statement about Bush.
Kerry cancelled his campaign appearances to avoid the distractions for the other candidates. That in no way suggests that the lies about what he said have any validity.

FINALLY, some Democrats admitted that Kerry did say what he said and they voiced their disapproval!!
Both the DEMOCRATIC U.S. Senate Candidate and the DEMOCRATIC U.S. House Candidate called the Kerry Camp and told them to “Stay Home”!! He was scheduled to come to MN to lend his “Name” to two Fund-Raising events for them. These two DEMOCRATS called him and said: NO THANKS, we feel you will do more harm than good!!! So it is NOT just the Republicans who see this guy as an idiot!!

Hate to point it out to you but that so-called document you are worried about being “Shreeded” is from your guy’s camp!! Why would he shred it if it proves anythiong, WHICH it wouldn’t!! Have you not SEEN the tape. It is not edited and there is NO US in his comments. Quit trying to bail this jerk out. He said it, He menat it and that’s it! It’s all on the tape!!

Considering that it came right after Kerry’s joke about Bush coming from the State of Texas and now being in a state of denial sure goes along with this being yet another Bush joke. John Kerry frequently tells jokes about Bush. John Kerry does not tell jokes about the troops.

I didn’t receive the text of that day’s speech, but sometimes I have received advanced texts of Kerry’s public statements and have followed along when televised. Kerry quite typically varies from the prepared text. Generally he improves upon it, but Monday missing a word did harm the delivery.

Realistically if they came out with the prepared text at this point those intent upon distorting what he said will just denies that it is legitimate.

Please encourage John Kerry to publish the unedited original speech so we can see the “us” he left out.

After it’s published, we can all move on and the right-wingers will be proven wrong.

Surely there would be no harm in scaning the original couple of lines prepared by the speech writer to shut everyone up!

I fear for the safety of this historic document. It’s probably already in the shredder.

Larry

You need to check your facts. It’s been quite well established that Kerry was criticizing Bush, not the troops. Of course you’d rather spread smears rather than consider what actually happened.

God bless our troops and how typical of them to come up with a joke after being slapped in the face by one of our elected leaders.

Massachusetts, thank you so much for giving us John Kerry.

He even seems too dumb to realize that World War II, as well as World War I, was one by Democrats. While Republicans love to give Ronald Reagan sole credit for winning the Cold War, they ignore the initial containment of Communism by Democrats which made this possible.

I’m thinking that person is out of school for the day and/or on a computer unsupervised. The thought process just isn’t there.