Posted on 10/27/2007 6:55:03 AM PDT by dano1
Fred Thompson, already struggling to overcome perceptions of his lackluster start on the campaign trail and charges that he has not studied up on the issues of the day, is once again facing criticism for comments he made on Thursday about the war in Iraq.
At a campaign appearance in Bluffton, S.C., Mr. Thompson suggested that the enemy America faces in Iraq was little more than “a bunch of kids with improvised explosive devices,” according to CNN. (snip)
Senator Joseph Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, was quick to condemn the remarks.
“If Senator Thompson believes that we are fighting ‘a bunch of kids,’ he is totally divorced from reality,” Mr. Biden said in a statement Thursday. “He should come back to Iraq with me and talk to our soldiers who are in the middle of a civil war between lethal militias or fighting the Bush-fulfilling prophecy of al Qaeda in Iraq or being blown up by I.E.D.’s.”
It is not the first time Mr. Thompson has drawn criticism for comments about Iraq.
Earlier this month in Iowa, Mr. Thompson told a crowd that Saddam Hussein “clearly had had WMD” and that “he clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program.”
Only when challenged on the comments did he try and clarify them by saying he was referring to Hussein’s use of chemical weapons in the 1980s.
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Ah, but it’s so much more fun to propagandize. Always watch whom the media fails to report actual news on or writes fluff pieces for, that’s the ones you have to look out for.
Figured it was one of them.
I know, it’s like “Night of the Living Dead” with these cretins.
So you post a NYT article that once again reports on accusations that Thompson is lazy, uninformed, and inconsiderate about our soldiers in Iraq. All accusations that NYT and other members of LMSM have created themselves and then further thier own charachterization.
The NYT then quotes Biden, a guy that should be, by their own standards, blacklisted for his comments on minorities, to retort Thompson. Please!
Your choice of this article and the source tell me all I need to know about your agenda.
Tearing one candidate down in an attempt to lift your preferred one does not show maturity or a general understanding of how you win people to your view.
Anytime a congenital idiot like Biden critisizes you you must be on the right track.
LOL!
So true. ;o)
“congenital”
That is a term with which I’m familiar.
As in, “congenital liar.”
Yep. It’s deep! ; )
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