FOXX STATEMENT ON SENATOR KERRY’S INSULTING REMARKS ABOUT AMERICAN SOLDIERS

Wednesday November 01, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael Frohlich
202-225-2071

WASHINGTON – Senator John Kerry (D-MA) made derogatory remarks about American soldiers in Iraq the other day stating, “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.” In response to the insulting remark, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement:

“I am troubled and disturbed by the remarks of Senator Kerry about our troops. This was not a joke taken out of context. It was an insult, plain and simple. Senator Kerry has insulted troops in the past when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971, and he has done it once again. Our troops are the finest, the bravest and brightest and deserve nothing short of our unconditional support. Not only does Senator Kerry owe the men and women currently serving in the military an apology, but he owes everyone who has ever put on the uniform and has nobly served this country a sincere apology as well.”

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