Actually, if Amy Brundage is being honest, he was supposed to target Bush:

A Kerry spokeswoman, Amy Brundage, said later that the senator's prepared text had called for him to say: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-01-kerry_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA


>>Mike, I totally agree with you. I don’t know of anybody who doesn’t love the troops.
>>That’s exactly why I’m trying to separate Bush from the picture.
>>I was only pointing out K’s comments. That’s all. I want to believe he did not mean it, and that at the end he wanted to say something like "if you don’t study you’ll end up like BUSH stuck in Iraq". But it did not come up like that.
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>It did not come out right. What I understood he meant was "study or you'll get drafted to Iraq next time around".
>The way it came out was awful and he should apologize.