You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.Source
While the First Amendment gives this individual the right to make this statement, I have to wonder what type of constituency votes this hateful individual into office ... Oh! California ... I still don't "get it!"
UPDATE: Apology
I want to apologize to my colleagues - many of whom I have offended - to the president and his family and to the troops,” Stark said on the House floor, ...
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While forgiveness is a virtue that all need to practice, the potential damage of his initial statement(s) has circled the World. Is it too much to ask of politicians to temper their rhetoric when knowing that words and images now travel at the speed of light? Cultures, translations and import are now part of the audience factor.
