Posted on 12/06/2005 12:10:37 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
John Kerry appeared yesterday on the CBS talking-head show, "Face The Nation", to discuss the war in Iraq with Bob Schieffer. Just as in his speeches on the Viet Nam War, Kerry has slipped into deep Left-speak in an attempt to gain national traction for his pose as a party leader. In fact, in language reminiscent of his infamous "Genghis Khan" speech before the Senate in April 1971, he yesterday referred to American soldiers as terrorists -- and then suggested that we leave terrorism to the new Iraqi army.
From page 3-4 of the CBS transcript, emphasis mine (h/t:CQ reader Dave Z):
SCHIEFFER: All right. Let me shift to another point of view, and it comes from another Democrat, Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. He takes a very different view. He says basically we should stay the course because, he says, real progress is being made. He said this is a war between 27 million Iraqis who want freedom and 10,000 terrorists. He says we're in a watershed transformation. What about that?
Sen. KERRY: Let me--I--first of all, there is so much more that unites Democrats than divides us. And Democrats have much more in common with each other than they do with George Bush's policy right now. Now Joe Lieberman, I believe, also voted for the resolution which said the president needs to make more clear what he's doing and set out benchmarks, and that the policy hasn't been working. We all believe him when you say, `Stay the course.' That's the president's policy, which hasn't been changing, which is a policy of failure. I don't agree with that. But I think what we need to do is recognize what we all agree on, which is you've got to begin to set benchmarks for accomplishment. You've got to begin to transfer authority to the Iraqis. And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not...
SCHIEFFER: Yeah.
Sen. KERRY: ...Iraqis should be doing that. And after all of these two and a half years, with all of the talk of 210,000 people trained, there just is no excuse for not transferring more of that authority.
Kerry thinks that the American soldiers are the terrorists in Iraq, applying that unique gift of his for moral relativity once again to indict an entire deployment of soldiers as criminals of the same order as our enemy. And Bob Schieffer sat there, without even raising an objection to Kerry's smear. Had Kerry not shown a long track record of this kind of rhetoric in the past -- and had to answer for it repeatedly during last year's presidential election -- one could possibly believe it came out as a slip of the tongue. However, he obviously has never stopped believing that the American fighting man and woman represents the same relative evil as the Viet Cong, the Khmer Rouge, and al-Qaeda.
The Democrats need to answer for this outrage. Is it really the party position that American soldiers terrorize Iraqi civilians? Do they want the Iraqis to do it instead of us? Kerry has unmasked himself and his fellow anti-war zealots for the hypocrites they are.
To be fair, he didn't call our troops terrorists. He said that our troops were terrorizing people in their homes by going in and doing home searches.
Our police do this all the time.
But, to be absolutely fair, John Kerry is mischaracterizing the home invasions by calling it terrorizing. Yes, it is scary - but it isn't anywhere near the level of terror produced by the terrorists when they drive through markets opening fire on innocent crowds, or blowing up cars in crowds of children.
So, he didn't exactly call our troops terrorists, but he came damned close to implying it.
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/ John Kerry appeared yesterday on the CBS talking-head show, "Face The Nation", to discuss the war in Iraq with Bob Schieffer. Just as in his speeches on the Viet Nam War, Kerry has slipped into deep Left-speak in an attempt to gain national traction for his pose as a party leader. Kerry has unmasked himself and his fellow anti-war zealots for the hypocrites they are. John Kerry: American Soldiers Are Terrorists
Posted by Captain Ed at 07:33 AM | Comments (132)
The man is a disgraceful human being. He is deliberately undermining the United States.
Why is he being quoted? He lost!
He is most definitely a disgraceful human being and a poor excuse for an American.
As for him being quoted, I hope the media doesn't stop. A lot of people will remember all the people who backed him up during the '04 elections, and they'll learn to further distrust political rhetoric.
''That was the implication ..."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/28/a_three_way_battle_rages_over_the_war?mode=PF
A spokeswoman for Kerry said the senator was reacting to Hastert's use of the word ''cower" and said that the speaker and other Republican Party leaders ''were all calling [Murtha] a coward."
''That was the implication," said Jenny Backus, the spokeswoman for Kerry's political action committee, which sent out the letter urging people to complain about ''vicious smear tactics" to elected representatives, radio shows and newspapers.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_400132.html
Sen. Nuance: Another Kerry caper
Hastert wrote that Americans "must not cower like European nations ... ." "Coward" was not used in the post.
But truth is irrelevant to Kerry adviser Jenny Backus. Ms. Backus said the reference was close enough, and besides, "national newspapers characterized his attacks on Murtha as calling him a coward," according to The Washington Times.
He remains confused and wrong.
I've never seen a picture of Kerry doing any normal sort of thing. It's ALWAYS a 100" yacht, a tutu, a trouffle-pig on a leash, or something like that. Almost reminds me of Archie Bunker's description of the Bolshoy as "a bunch of communist fruits jumping up and down in their underwear", only in real life.
Traitor, traitor, traitor, traitor, traitor, traitor, treasonous TRAITOR, TRAITOR, TRAITOR......
You can say that again!
And terrorizing not just kids, but chillen too! Damn, wisht Idda gone to Yale.
Am I the only one here who thinks this is odd?? Isn't there a kind of inherent racism in this??
Little known fact: She did the voice characterizations of Mrs. Magoo.
I am constantly awed that anyone takes this (truly) second rate poseur seriously for a minute.
The DUmmies are pretty desperate these days.
"Am I the only one here who thinks this is odd??"
It's not odd for this dope, once again he is against terrorizing women and children and breaking, er religious customs, before he is for terrorizing women and children, etc.
What the heck does that mean? Terror is characterized by breaking customs? But if the Iraqis terrorize people, it's OK, because they're what -- barbarians?
Every word out of Kerry's mouth is spoken with the conviction of man who truly has no convictions.
An effete airheaded snob.
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