"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended," Kerry said in a statement Wednesday.
"As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: My poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and [was] never intended to refer to any troop," he said.
In the statement, the four-term senator continued to assert that the GOP was using the gaffe to distract voters from its own shortcomings.
"It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy," he said. "I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops."


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He did. The GOP, in their obvious desperation to grasp ANYTHING that they can campaign on, besides their own disastrously failed record, twisted his words and made false accusations in a shameless attempt to smear him once again, rather than face the tough issues that matter. What a national disgrace that party has become.
Now, when will Bush apologize for lying the nation into an illegal and unnecessary war?
"There are those who would hold that office however that might find supplying the manpower for an Army most difficult."
Apparently, the current pretendident is one of those persons. The military has been virtually decimated because of his illegal, unnecessary war for corporate profit.
""If anyone owes our troops in field an apology, it is the President and his field team and the REPUBLICAN (he spat) majority in the Congress that has been willing to stamp, rubber-stamp, policies that have done injury to our troops and to their families." (Did he approve of anything that was rubber-stamped, no, he carefully thought out all his decisions that were wrong after he committed to them being the right thing to do after he considered that funding might get cut off from Lord Soros if he didn't get another thought that he would vote for the money he needed by voting against the money needed! or something like that.
We already knew he was not going to apologize for the joke he made that he didn't want to make so he apologized for .....never mind.
Clark K.
You are deaf, dumb and blind from guzzling a bad batch of the Soros Kool-Aid. Remember the "authorization" that gave Bush athority to intervene in Iraq (Militarily) that John Boy voted for, but then decided he had another spiritual awakening, and would not have if he had, voted for the funding that he voted against ....never mind! See it's hard to keep up with lies, eh, misunderstandings, or attacks- #$@#%$#^! No one keeps up with his BS, even him.
Son of Chomsky, how doeth you spitteth lies and deceptions:
"Apparently, the current pretendident is one of those persons. The military has been virtually decimated because of his illegal, unnecessary war for corporate profit.
Wrong AGAIN! REINLISTMENT is at around 80% (obviously they found something worthwile and worth fighting for and they have to keep a leash on a lot of those injured to keep them out of combat zones long enough to heal). ALL branches have met or exceeded their quotas (of course you have to be a little less bright now).
Maybe they know something (ALOT MORE SOMETHING) than you in your little conclave of self-rightousness know-not?
(IT WAS CLINTON that exucuted an ILLEGAL WAR when he violated the Regime Change resolution that SPECIFICALLY prohibited military action in Iraq unless to support an insurrection- Monica's 4 days of Terror when Iraq bombed to coincide with his coming on TV to tell us he lied about lying to apologize if he could just make it crystal clear in his own mind what 'It' meant and that he did not lie, he meant it ...anyway the bombing stopped that night.
Or are you declaring illegal war since we did not get permission from the leaders and our rulers in the free world, the UN? The UN that was knee-deep in coruption called the Oil-for-Food scandal that showed members in Chiracs (he's a French pussy) office had vouchers or all those Russians that would probably not wanted anyone screwing up a take-home cash-o-la of a few billion $. NOT them?!
But that was before I apologized for making this one thing perfectly clear, or was it make this one thing perfectly clear...oh never mind.
The cowardly American-hating, Military-hating, lying news-whore 6'sompin' pile of excrement tried to pull a page from the Fox News Driven, " the new, tough, energized "We're not gonna take it from the " VAST Right Wing Consertative Conspiricy" Clinton playbook and fumbled that too now, evidently.
Or was it he called for a fair catch that he was going to return for a touchdown, but, decided he might fumble... Viet Nam and Gengas Khan, ohhhhhh never mind, I'm sure glad he got it straight, now if he can clear it with the troops in IRAK or ever walk on a US (note I said US) military base remains to be seen.
I haven't seen a uniform around him since he found all those, a few of those, a dozen of those, ah, 5 guys who cited what a brave, courageous, honest, ... NICE guy he was in Nam when Swift-Boated, er, revealed his leadership, damn... ran the boat good.
Oh hell, WHAT A TRUE BLUE AMERICAN! They should make him the MAYOR of BAGDAD!
Our troops opinion voiced in pictures so even I could understand it...Maybe you too.
"Apparently, the current pretendident is one of those persons. The military has been virtually decimated because of his illegal, unnecessary war for corporate profit."
I don't care squat about pretendidnent- you are a class-whore monger like Kerry, way above your hands should ever dirty themselves fighting for something YOU believe in. Do you have a copy of uppity language for ELitistist from Kerry's library?
But if only a draft was in place and that Bush ordered it oh, did you say 1972?
http://drudgereport.com/ SEE The Picture of the proof of the dumb-ass troops beging for President Kerry, oh ah, he lost....President in his own mind...oh hell again, HIS help.
"Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities," Kerry Wrote.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/02/D8L542784.html
Honor thy warriors.
What he fails to realize is we've heard it all before. If we wanted to listen to Kerry, maybe would have voted him into office. Kerry, shutup, you lost. It's getting old already.
For all you Kerry supporters, give it a rest already. Noone cares!
It IS heartfelt, unlike your pointless sarcasm.