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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
You need to read his quote again. I think what he said is very clear. He said that, "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. and if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
I think the meaning is clear. The other possible meaning does not make sense. Do you honestly think he was saying that if you don't get a good education that you will end up being President and making bad decisions on Iraq? That's ridiculous. That's not what he was saying. He was saying that if you don't get educated you won't have many options in terms of career and you may end up in the military stuck in Iraq. That is clearly what he meant. He didn't mean that you would end up being President and keeping us in Iraq. That doesn't make sense.
Kerry has a history of putting his foot in his mouth when it comes to the military. His past comments have nade it clear that he thinks that if there is no draft that the military is for poor people and minorities. He was quoted in the 1970s as saying, "I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown." He obviously has no clue that plenty of educated people join the military by choice.
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Rupert,
You and I don't agree on this at all.
The transcript of Kerry's speech is widely available. He misread it. He was attempting to say that Bush didn't do his homework before he lead the country to war in Iraq.
Kerry has since apologized.
The repubs continue to spin this for its "distraction effect".
Here's an article that you might find interesting.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1102-33.htm
Peace.
DTS