Kerry sure booted this one. A busted joke?? LOL, he can't even come up with a good excuse. Even the dimmest of bulbs (The Sponge) took from those comments that he was saying the military was full of people who can't cut it in school.
Jackass Kerry AGAIN
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He didn't say anything like that you f*cking idiot.
He told those kids that if they don't get their education, then they're destined to be stuck in Iraq because...well...they will end up in a dead-end job like the military and end up in the hell that is Iraq.
If that was a joke, good one, John.
If that's the best he can do to elucidate his opposition to this Iraq disaster, then he is pathetic.
Recruits maintain high quality, new study says
By Gordon Lubold
Staff writer
Contrary to what many believe, the quality of military recruits has not declined, according to a study done by a conservative think tank in Washington.
The Heritage Foundation looked at criteria such as race, education and income level and found that contrary to media reports cited by the study, the overall quality of ?wartime enlistees? has remained stable over the last few years.
?A pillar of conventional wisdom about the U.S. military is that the quality of volunteers has been degraded after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq,? the report begins. ?Examples of the voices making this claim range from The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Daily News to Michael Moore?s pseudo-documentary ?Fahrenheit 9/11.? ? Such reports, the study says, indicate that there is a disproportionate representation of minorities and lower-income people serving in the military, while others ?accuse? the Army of accepting unqualified enlistees.
Not so, says Tim Kane, an analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
?The current findings show that the demographic characteristics of volunteers have continued to show signs of higher, not lower, quality,? Kane wrote
In fact, the review of Pentagon enlistee data, which contains information from 2004 and 2005 but not this year, shows that the only enlistee group with a shrinking representation is, in fact, lower-income Americans. The percentage of enlistees from the poorest neighborhoods, which encompass one-fifth of the U.S. population, declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 15 percent in 2003; and further to 14 percent in both 2004 and 2005, the report said.
When the Pentagon released its fiscal 2006 recruiting numbers earlier in October, senior defense officials insisted they had not changed their recruiting standards. That is largely true, since overall standards for the number of high school graduates, for example, has not changed. But what did change, particularly for the Army, which struggled to meet its recruiting goals in 2005, was the number of enlistees who have high school diplomas, which has been declining recently.
Military aptitude test scores and a high school diploma are the primary traditional measures of ?high? recruit quality.
By Gordon Lubold
Staff writer
Contrary to what many believe, the quality of military recruits has not declined, according to a study done by a conservative think tank in Washington.
The Heritage Foundation looked at criteria such as race, education and income level and found that contrary to media reports cited by the study, the overall quality of ?wartime enlistees? has remained stable over the last few years.
?A pillar of conventional wisdom about the U.S. military is that the quality of volunteers has been degraded after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq,? the report begins. ?Examples of the voices making this claim range from The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Daily News to Michael Moore?s pseudo-documentary ?Fahrenheit 9/11.? ? Such reports, the study says, indicate that there is a disproportionate representation of minorities and lower-income people serving in the military, while others ?accuse? the Army of accepting unqualified enlistees.
Not so, says Tim Kane, an analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
?The current findings show that the demographic characteristics of volunteers have continued to show signs of higher, not lower, quality,? Kane wrote
In fact, the review of Pentagon enlistee data, which contains information from 2004 and 2005 but not this year, shows that the only enlistee group with a shrinking representation is, in fact, lower-income Americans. The percentage of enlistees from the poorest neighborhoods, which encompass one-fifth of the U.S. population, declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 15 percent in 2003; and further to 14 percent in both 2004 and 2005, the report said.
When the Pentagon released its fiscal 2006 recruiting numbers earlier in October, senior defense officials insisted they had not changed their recruiting standards. That is largely true, since overall standards for the number of high school graduates, for example, has not changed. But what did change, particularly for the Army, which struggled to meet its recruiting goals in 2005, was the number of enlistees who have high school diplomas, which has been declining recently.
Military aptitude test scores and a high school diploma are the primary traditional measures of ?high? recruit quality.
Your a fool bud and they are playing you like the fool you are. Go watch Cris Matthews go watch Olberman. They will show you how silly you are.
LMAO Matthews and Olberman will lose ALL CREDIBILITY WITH ANY REASONABLE PERSON if they defend this bum
What a joke, partisanship beyond country
Pathetic.
However, if you really wanted to win this election, you would dump Kerry and the rest would be easy.
Its that simple. Show leadership and America will follow. However, the great majority democrats and many Republicans don't get 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. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
-- John Kerry,
He told those kids that if they don't get their education, then they're destined to be stuck in Iraq because...well...they will end up in a dead-end job like the military and end up in the hell that is Iraq.
Kosar's distorted version
-- John Kerry,
He told those kids that if they don't get their education, then they're destined to be stuck in Iraq because...well...they will end up in a dead-end job like the military and end up in the hell that is Iraq.
Kosar's distorted version
what is really pathetic is how the right pulls your puppet strings to go anyway they want. Your a reasonable person?
Why did I come in here. Every time I do and read comments like this lose a little respect for some that I respected in the capper world. Have not been in here in 6 months and headed out. See ya gents!
kurby
Other than 'Manson' and 'I Love Wide Receivers', you are the single dumbest poster that has ever graced the politcial forum. No offense meant.
I've posted many times that I watch MSNBC at night, if there is no sporting event or other thing going on. (Laguna Beach, Survivor, Real World or Big Brother-the important shit)
That includes the right wing Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough and the left wing Matthews and the amusing, but almost unbearably liberal sometimes, Olberman.
I enjoy all of them, except for Keith sometimes.
Looks about exactly the same.
Tell me, between you and me. Were YOU that retarded bagger that 'freaked out?'
130,000 troops over there and they are all dumb hillbillies??
Yeah,
Hammer is another 'prize.'
At least in his last 4 or so posts he hasn't called for the extermination of Jews.
Is this true? Man, even though I really do like Jeb and I would vote for him if he ran in '08(which of course he won't), his AFCAT plan and all that shit must not be working. No idea. I have no kids and obviously don't follow these rankings as much as you. Hang tough, bro.
If you really beleive that BS that the Dems are feeding you about this being a busted joke on bush's handling of the war--then someone is pulling your strings
take a step back and see what you are really saying. Kerry cant even muster up an apology and instead tries to blame bush for his rediculious comment?
i know how much they love "bush bashing", but theyre taking this a little too far.
and youve got the wrong idea about Kosar--hes not some dumb ass right winger (as im sure you would classify me as well)- he shoots down the middle and uses reason to justify his thought, somehting you should look into in my humble opinion.
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Bush has sent 2,815 soldiers to their deaths in Iraq
Bush has sent 2,815 soldiers to their deaths in Iraq
There are high Seniors and Juniors who have less than 2 years to live. These are the ones who will join the army after high school. If America votes to keep Repubs in power than every thing that happens in Iraq America deserves it, for being so stupid. Bush is a drunk, and not a very smarth one. He is a failed businessman, skip his drug test while in the military, disappeared for a year while on duty. Who can believe him when he said we are winning in Iraq? Boy are you stupid! I see why Hitler had wide support in Germany. The same could happen here because Americans are no smarther than the rest of the world. My kids will never see military service. Bush's kids will go to war before mine will.
Bush has sent 2,815 soldiers to their deaths in Iraq
There are high Seniors and Juniors who have less than 2 years to live. These are the ones who will join the army after high school. If America votes to keep Repubs in power than every thing that happens in Iraq America deserves it, for being so stupid. Bush is a drunk, and not a very smarth one. He is a failed businessman, skip his drug test while in the military, disappeared for a year while on duty. Who can believe him when he said we are winning in Iraq? Boy are you stupid! I see why Hitler had wide support in Germany. The same could happen here because Americans are no smarther than the rest of the world. My kids will never see military service. Bush's kids will go to war before mine will.
Not sure who you're addressing, exactly, but your post is the definition of a non-sequitur.
I think that most here, and clearly most Americans agree FINALLY that going into Iraq and trying to nation-build and trying to establish a democracy there was and is a tragic mistake. We can leave tomorrow, or in five years, and the end result will be the same.
However, the point of this thread was to excoriate a supposed Democratic leader(sic) who demeans the troops. Once again.
