I want an apology - Me too (and also from Democratic Stategists losing my time).

[Mass]

While Democratic strategists are busy whining about Kerry sense of timing (what they know best how to do is to whine), some Americans get it and do the jobs that needs to be done.

What would you want all these strategists spending their time on: inside baseball or fighting for us.

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061103/NEWS/611030663/1008/NEWS02

Senator’s timing of apology has Dems scratching heads

A written text shows what Kerry had meant to say

http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php?id=110&title=I+want+an+apology+for...&event=org_news_print_list_item

want an apology for...


Roman Bystrianyk, "I want an apology for...", Health Sentinel, November 3, 2006,

I want an apology for... A recent speech by Democratic Senator John Kerry has erupted into a firestorm. Senator Kerry describes the comment as a “botched joke” that was actually aimed at President Bush. President Bush has called for an apology to what he considered an insult to the troops serving in Iraq. Radio and television talk show hosts, newspapers, and the Internet are all abuzz with this story.

President Bush’s political operatives are attempting to create a giant controversy over this remark in the hopes of gaining political traction. But stepping back from the story it’s clearly nothing more than a tempest in a teapot. This single sentence from a single speech didn’t kill anyone, it didn’t cost anyone money, and it really didn’t effect anyone’s life in any amount. But this controversy did make me think of all the horrifying tragedies that deserve an apology.



I want an apology for the more than 2,800 Americans soldiers that have died in less than four years in the Iraq War. – Associated Press, November 2, 2006

I want an apology for the 655,000 Iraqis that have died as a result of the invasion of Iraq. – The Lancet, October

I want an apology for the Iraq war which has now cost nearly $380 billion dollars. – Associated Press, November 2, 2006

I want an apology for the inefficiencies and bad management that lost nearly $9 billion dollars that was supposed to be spent on Iraqi reconstruction. – CNN, January 31, 2005

I want an apology from Donald Rumsfeld because when he was asked how long the Iraq war would take he said, “It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.” – United States Department of Defense News Transcript, February 7, 2003

I want an apology for a government that has left the United States with a national debt of over $8.5 trillion dollars. – www.federalbudget.com

I want an apology for the government that does nothing about the 21 children that die in the world each and every second of each and every day from lack of clean water, good food, and proper sanitation. – The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005

I want an apology for the hundreds of tons of depleted uranium that has been used in weapons in Iraq that is linked to severe illnesses, missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory problems and fused fingers in children as well as increased risk of cancer. – Sunday Herald, March 30, 2003; BBC, November 1, 2006

I want an apology from a government that allowed over half a million children to die from Iraqi sanctions. And specifically I want an apology from Madeline Albright when she was asked if the deaths of half a million children was “worth it” she replied “It’s a hard choice, but I think, we, think, it’s worth it.” – 60 Minutes, May 11, 1996

I want an apology from a government that has let more than one fifth of the Amazon Rainforest to be destroyed – Wikipedia

I want an apology for over 250,000 potentially preventable deaths due to patient safety incidence that occurred under Medicare from 2002 to 2005. – HealthGrades Third Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study, April 2006

I want an apology from a government that ignores the 40% to 60% of hospitalized older adults that are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition; the 40% to 85% of nursing home residents that suffer from malnutrition and the 20% to 60% of home care patients that are also so afflicted. – American Journal of Nursing, March 2005

I want an apology from a government that ignores the direct medical costs associated with Adverse Drug Events have been estimated to be in the range of $US30 billion to $US130 billion annually in the US alone and where drug-related mortality has been estimated to claim 218,000 lives annually. – Drug Safety, September 1, 2004

I want an apology because each year, approximately 2 million patients in the United States acquire infections while hospitalized for other conditions. These infections account for 88,000 deaths and cost approximately $4.6 billion. Similar infections occur in nursing homes, outpatient clinics, dialysis centers, and other sites of healthcare delivery. – MMWR, February 25, 2000

I want an apology for the approximately 107,000 patients that are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone. – The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998



These are only a few things that we should all get an apology for – an apology won’t bring back the lives lost, refund all the money wasted, or repair all the damage done – but at least it’s a start.

[Island Blue]

1. K & R.

:kick:

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Off to the Greatest Page you go.

[Mass]

3. And also from Kristin Breistweiser.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2559696&mesg_id=2559696

[wisteria]

4. Damn right, we are all entitled to an apology! n/t

[goddess40]

8. we are but the way the right apologizes ...

if you were offended - screw you

[Mass]

5. Somebody else who gets it

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dan_lee_061102_coo_coo_clock_for_ke.htm

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dan_lee_061102_coo_coo_clock_for_ke.htm

Cuckoo Clock for Kerry

by Dan Le

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Senator Kerry is being upbraided for saying students should work hard and stay in school because if they don't they might get stuck in Iraq. For those of us who came of age during Vietnam that's not an insult to the soldiers, it's an insult to the war. And though I don't know Senator Kerry, if he was making a joke it was actually dependent on the intersection of two parallel lines of logic. Since Bush and his cronies operate on single core processors, they can be forgiven for seeing just one of them.

Back when the Vietnam War was in process, I was not one of the boys who had the money or the grades to get into college without going through the military first. I had two choices when I graduated from high school, joining the military or being drafted into it. The people who avoided the war were people like George Bush. The people who could have escaped it, and did not; the democratic ones, who refused to use connections to avoid service, were men like John Kerry.
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If Kerry was being humorous, it was that if you're like Bush, and don't study and learn something useful, you'll make terrible decisions and end up stuck in the worst, most stupid, expensive and moronic adventure in history, the Iraq War.
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The men and women in Iraq know they're stuck there. Some of them have done three and four tours and been extended just when they were thinking they might go home. There may be a few who don't know that, and if so, then there's something to be said for not telling them. In fact, there's something to be said for checking for brain freeze if anybody in Iraq doesn't know they're stuck in hell, courtesy of Bush and company.

Instead of apologizing, Kerry should repeat, slowly and carefully, that anybody who is in school should study hard and get good grades to avoid getting stuck in Iraq. He can say it because he was the kind of guy who was smart enough to avoid Vietnam, but volunteered to go anyway. He's paid his dues and he doesn't need a cuckoo clock from the gang that can't shoot straight.

What he said isn't the same thing as saying you have to be stupid to be in Iraq. Some extraordinarily smart guys who don't have to be there are there, because they have that kind of personal code, like Kerry had during Vietnam. Some sociopaths are there, because the standards are so low they could just set up transfers from the penitentiaries and use Iraq as a half-way house. Most of the uniformed men and women in Iraq are in the middle someplace, and joined because they needed the money and a way to get through college. I seriously doubt there are any of them sitting around trying to deal with hurt feelings around anything Kerry says. If so, they should remember that they don't have to tell anybody and nobody really ought to ask.

strayshot.com

Dan Lee is a communications professional who has professionally explored magazine writing, photography, bodywork, hypnosis, and songwriting. He is semi-retired in Arizona.

[blm]

6. That's a great article

grazie

[Mass]

7. Cenk Uygur from the Young Turk has it right - Democrats Never Learn

A retired fighter pilot once called our show and said what the Democrats need to learn is the old Top Gun motto: Turn into the fight!

John Kerry's joke about the president -- which was twisted for propaganda purposes by the Republicans -- was an ... opportunity! It was an opportunity for Democrats to bring up every error that Bush and his Republican enablers in Congress have made -- and then demand an apology to the troops for those actions.

Anytime a reporter asked about Kerry's remarks, every Democrat should have started the sentence with the words, "Let me tell you who has to apologize to the troops, these Republicans in the administration and Congress for what they have done..."

Then you can go on to talk about sending the troops into war without a plan, or proper equipment or competent Secretary of Defense or any justification whatsoever. Or their votes against veterans when they return from the war. The Republican Congress turned down a measly twenty million dollars to help veterans recover from traumatic brain injuries. That's less than what the Iraq War costs in two hours! These guys nearly had their heads blown off by IEDs and the Republicans turned down their treatment. How's that for an insult to the troops?

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You can say I'm being a Monday morning quarterback here. Except I wrote about this nearly a year and half ago. In fact, it was my first post ever on Huffington Post. Read what I wrote then and tell me if this isn't exactly what they just did to Kerry. When are the Democrats ever going to learn?

Below is the game that's being played on them. I wrote this about Howard Dean and you can see they have done the same exact thing to Kerry now. Pass this on, because obviously they still haven't gotten the message:

Seven Step Plan for Media Domination and Opponent Destruction

" doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats." -- Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del....

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