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Originally Posted by aberkok
No...you mis-interpreted the joke, I'm afraid. It is not a dis to the troops. More of a lament. All the joke means is that having to go to Iraq is not "doing well," and certainly isn't the desired result of hard study and decent education. Read it again.
The way to interpret this as an attack on the president (and I'm only explaining the plain English of it), is the same way we're used to: as a criticism of the fact that he declared war, and as a result, American soldiers now have to be there, sometimes dying, instead of at home making lives for themselves.
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I agree that was the meaning but it was lost in what he said. You can sit there and read it 1,000 times and know what he is saying, know that there is truth in what he is saying but the way it was said was truly tasteless and done without thought.
But he's human and .....well every single one of us says stupid things and makes mistakes that may have merit but were done or said in a way that made us look bad. I say stupid things on a daily basis (ask Lady Sage) the difference between me and Kerry is I don't have a microphone glued to my shoulder picking up and making public everything I say.....
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
Last edited by pan6467; 11-01-2006 at 07:11 AM..
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