{"id":1518,"date":"2006-11-02T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/a-soldier-responds-to-john-ker.html"},"modified":"2006-11-02T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T13:22:00","slug":"a-soldier-responds-to-john-ker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/a-soldier-responds-to-john-ker.html","title":{"rendered":"A Soldier Responds to John Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh well, here I go again but when you read this story<\/a> you will see why:<\/p>\n

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In a moving letter to The Post, a heroic New Yorker serving in Iraq had a blunt message yesterday for John Kerry – lay off the troops! <\/p>\n

U.S. Army Maj. John P. Maguire – a West Point alumnus who rushed to the Twin Towers to rescue the wounded on 9\/11 – wrote that he learned of the senator’s insult while in a tent “surrounded by barriers protecting us from mortar attacks.” <\/p>\n

The 33-year-old was watching Armed Forces Network, which broadcast Kerry telling young kids, “If you don’t [study hard], you get stuck in Iraq.” <\/p>\n

So Maguire, who was photographed carrying the mortally wounded FDNY chaplain the Rev. Mychal Judge out of the rubble at Ground Zero, fired off an e-mail to defend his men and women in uniform. <\/p>\n

“In his remarks, Sen. Kerry inferred that many of us over here are in Iraq because we are not smart enough, didn’t study hard, and had no other options in life,” he wrote to The Post. <\/p>\n

“Let me just tell you, there are many other people who share that view – the enemy.” <\/p>\n

He pointed out that Saddam Hussein tried to spread exactly the same propaganda about American forces and said that the terrorist insurgents are still trying to propagate the myth. <\/p>\n

“One of the common misconceptions among Iraqis is that U.S. troops are the bottom feeders of America, have no families, lack education, and are society’s outcasts,” he wrote.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good going Kerry and those on the left, really helping with morale and for talking points for our enemies. OK, now I hope that’s my last word on this subject but somehow I doubt it.
\nAnd this is why the Post has increased circulation<\/a>, while the other newspapers are losing circulation:
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\nUpdated: <\/span>ABC News agrees with John Kerry<\/a> our troops aren’t well educated. After reading what Maguire wrote to the NY Post, it makes me nuts that ABC News would propagate this type of propaganda. Why make the job of the military harder than it already is? Why burden our troops with the ridicule of the enemy? Our military is probably a lot like the general population. There are some who have a high school degree and some who have had college classes and degrees, in fact they are probably even better educated because they at least have a high school diploma<\/a>.
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Tags: Kerry<\/a>, troops<\/a>, soldiers<\/a>, Iraq<\/a>, war<\/a>, NY Post<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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