Howie scream'in dean says"
When someone who measures...every...word...slowly...like Kerry misspeaks, it is a freudian slip. They lose their control for one second and what they really think slips out. I have no doubt that what he originally said is what he really thinks.
Citing a year-old Washington Post report .......
Now there is a good reliable source.
Citing a year-old Washington Post report that claimed Iraqis resented home searches by U.S. troops, Kerry said his "terrorizing" comment was meant to be constructive.
"That resentment hurts our soldiers," he told Imus. "I'm trying to help our soldiers. We all are."
Asked if Iraqis soldiers wouldn't be "terrorizing" the same homeowners when they take over the searches, Kerry replied: "Hopefully not."
But in the next breath he added, "They're going to resent being terrorized if that's what happens."
However, as long as Teresa opens her bank accounts to her husband's Presidential ambitions for 2008, John Kerry will have an audience for his doubletalk.
John Kerry is really to blame
For his own words, he spoke, that are lame.
John's verbal assault
Is not Rush's fault.
Kerry must bear all the shame.
When does Kerry's Senate term expire?
I read this (about how we "scare" them), and I thought about two other stories. First, there was the shooting on or near the airplane in Miami. The passengers all said that when security stormed the plane and were pointing guns and barking orders, they were all scared.
The second was a letter to the editor to my local newspaper a month or so ago, where a parent complained about the school "scaring" her child by having a lock-down drill, where they had the security people come through and the kids are all supposed to get into locked rooms and hide.
In both cases, people reported being scared, and terrified. Nobody said they were terrorized, of course, because everybody except John Kerry understands that "terrified" means you are scared, while "terrorized" means the troops are looking to oppress the people using fear and intimidation.
But the point is that in order to carry out our duties, some innocent people get scared from time to time.
BTW, I note it now says he was referencing WP reports from over a year ago. Well, a year ago we didn't have much in the way of trained Iraqi forces. Do we actually KNOW that our own troops are doing a lot of door-to-door searches throughout the country?
This is actually a great trick liberals play. What if we aren't really doing door-to-door searches anymore except when we go into towns to drive out the insurgents? Because Kerry used the word "terrorized" all his critics focused on THAT, and I don't know if anybody bothered to question his basic premise.
So, what about it, do we have any evidence that we are still regularly using OUR troops to go door-to-door, rather than using Iraqi troops like Kerry SAYS we should be doing?
December 9, 2005
Dems Disavow War Remarks by Dean, Kerry, al-Sadr
by Scott Ott
(2005-12-09) — A growing number of Democrats in Congress this week quietly distanced themselves from recent statements about the Iraq war made by DNC Chairman Howard Dean, Democrat Senator John F. Kerry and Iraqi Shiite Cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
While, so far, the party faithful have not called for any resignations, many disavowed the anti-war statements made by these leaders at a time when U.S. troops are in harm’s way.
Mr. Dean told a San Antonio, Texas, radio audience that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. Sen. Kerry, on ‘Face the Nation’ said U.S. troops terrorize women and children in the night — a job he said should be done by Iraqi troops. And Mr. al-Sadr called for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and saying, “the occupier won’t grab our Iraq and its resources as long as we are alive.”
“These men speak for themselves and not necessarily the patriotic mainstream of the Democrat party,” said one unnamed Democrat Senator. “When I read what Dean, Kerry and al-Sadr said this week, my first reaction was ‘Not in my name, boys’.”
At times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
The Democrat mind is congenitally incapable of protecting America. They simply are too weak.
The easiest thing, and the smartest thing, would be to say that his statement did not come out the way he intended it to. That would keep the remark on the level of a simple "oopsy" as opposed to something involving a conspiracy.
Oh Boy!!!!! Rush is gonna clean his clock today!!!!!
Whenever, I hear anybody say "to be honest with you", I know what follows will be less than honest.
And who's surprised that only people on the right are making anything of his statements?
I guess we should count our blessing to have brothers John and Howard out front?
Would it scare them any less if it were Iraqis doing these searches?
LOL!
So the US soldiers shouldn't be going in "terrorizing" the Iraqi women and children, but it's okay for the Iraqi forces to do so...he really backed himself into a corner on that one, either way you interpret it, he's badmouthing the military, ours and the Iraqi's.
What an idiot! If John Boy doesn't decide to go on national TV and then proceed to say something utterly stupid, then NO one could make anything of it. But then again personal responsibiloity was never his forte.