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John Kerry Blames Rush Limbaugh for Iraq Blooper
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Posted on 12/09/2005 6:19:39 AM PST by Sub-Driver

John Kerry Blames Rush Limbaugh for Iraq Blooper

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry blamed top conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh Friday morning for the uproar over his claim that U.S. troops were terrorizing Iraqi women and children.

"You know, the only people who are trying to make anything out of that, to be honest with you, are Rush Limbaugh and a few people on the right," Kerry told radio host Don Imus.

On Sunday Kerry told CBS's "Face the Nation" that there was "no reason ... 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 - Iraqis should be doing that."

Asked if he meant to say that American soldiers were guilty of terrorism, Kerry claimed: "Obviously not."

What he meant to say, he insisted, was: "After three years, Iraqis ought to be capable of searching a home ... It's inexplicable that when the biggest killers in Iraq are suicide bombers and IEDs, improvised explosive devices, that we're still on the front lines going into homes and going out in the dead of night. And it scares people."

The one-time top Democrat said that he'd like to see U.S. troops redeployed "in a way that accomplishes the goal but does it without needlessly putting troops at risk and incurring greater difficulties in feeding the insurgency."

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

In Massachusetts politics, treason is also known as citizenship


121 posted on 12/09/2005 7:24:38 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: River_Wrangler

What? F'ing Kerry, the French looking one? In 'Nam? Are You Series?


122 posted on 12/09/2005 7:26:23 AM PST by shiva
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
By the way, has he signed the SF-180 yet?

LOL! Somehow he's not even able to release that form.

123 posted on 12/09/2005 7:28:20 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (How long do we have to pretend that the vast majority of Democrats are patriots?)
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To: Savage Beast
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124 posted on 12/09/2005 7:28:24 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: AlexW

Was your pathologically dishonest acquaintance my boss? But her phrase was "Quite honestly..."


125 posted on 12/09/2005 7:30:08 AM PST by GOPPachyderm
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To: sam_paine

Kerry does not understand resistence nor can one assign any load capacity to his french poodle genitals.


126 posted on 12/09/2005 7:32:04 AM PST by LearsKent
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To: mylife

I believe that Rush said that Kerry is suffering from dementia. It's a plausable excuse if he is....


127 posted on 12/09/2005 7:32:23 AM PST by Loud Mime (Bad Lawmakers = Bad Law = Infinite Lawyers)
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To: Betteboop

Horton was an elephant, not an @ss.


128 posted on 12/09/2005 7:33:14 AM PST by GOPPachyderm
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To: OXENinFLA
I just knew it...
It's all his fault
darn that Rush Limbaugh...

hahahahahahahahahahahaha
129 posted on 12/09/2005 7:33:47 AM PST by firewalk
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To: Sub-Driver
Kerry Strategy:
  1. Demand that we defeat the insurgency
  2. Deligitimize the means of doing so
  3. Repeat

Kerry was doing this on Face The Nation. If you read the transcript, immediately after his "terrorizing" comment, Scheiffer sensibly (considering that these raids are a primary and indispensable component of the anti-insurgency efforts) asks Kerry if he means that we shouldn't fight the insurgents.

Kerry says no, and adds that we should be "going after hard intelligence" and "going after Zarqawi" using "Special Forces". What are Kerry's "special forces" supposed to do? Sit in a bunker somewhere and pull "hard intelligence" out their clymers?

Kerry is either an idiot, or he knows damn well that "special forces" work with regular forces to gather intelligence via these raids, and that this is exactly how we got Saddam, with hundreds and hundreds of these raids. Nor did we respect Arab "customs" in doing so. One custom, for instance, being that you don't ask Arabs about their families and other close personal relations -- but doggedly prying into such relations (by interrogations; confiscating computers, letters and photos; etc) were precisely what allowed the military to zero in on Saddam.

130 posted on 12/09/2005 7:47:28 AM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Sub-Driver

131 posted on 12/09/2005 7:48:20 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (/strike>)
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To: Sub-Driver; Laurita; CMS; The Sailor; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Defender2; OneLoyalAmerican; ...
"Yes, indeed- John Kerry thinks it's 1971 all over again. Yesterday, on "Face the Nation"
John Kerry once again slams American troops- Check it out-

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into 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."

Here is the transcript for "Face the Nation"-

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_120405.pdf

You will find this statement at the bottom of page 4 and the top of page 5.



"When former Attorney General Ramsey Clark isn’t defending Saddam Hussein, or giving speeches for the crypto-Stalinist International ANSWER, he’s acting as counsel for the Palestine Liberation Organization, trying to prevent families of murdered Jews from collecting on judgments against the PLO."
Little Green Footballs ^ | November 28, 2005 | Charles Johnson


From Kerry's "The New Soldier":

Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66
Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can’t live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won’t have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won’t have to deal with having been there.

- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris on the American Communist Party's nickel.

John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time.
And those things happen."


Free online version of
hanoi kerry's playbook "The New Soldier"
You can read it online right now.







132 posted on 12/09/2005 7:51:01 AM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Be wary of the "Move On FReepers" who scream and howl "Move On Tonk, Get Over It")
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To: Taliesan

And they are showing this side consistently to the voters which means they will lose. That's why Her Heinous has positioned herself differently on the war.


133 posted on 12/09/2005 7:54:24 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: AlexW
once had an acquaintance who was a true pathological lier.

I know, it's so obvious.

134 posted on 12/09/2005 7:56:21 AM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: eyespysomething
How the hell do you redeploy the troops to keep them from being at risk during a war?

Our troops, God bless them, have killed thousands of terrorists and captured many thousands more doing exactly what they are doing now. Arm chair generals need to stay the hell out of advising the commanders on how to fight this war.

I thank God everyday that neither Howard Dean our Flip Flop Kerry got elected president of this country.
135 posted on 12/09/2005 7:56:44 AM PST by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yep, it's always somebody else's fault. Kerry can't even stand up like a man and back up what he said. And this puke is presidential material? Yeah, right!!


136 posted on 12/09/2005 7:58:50 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: econjack
Oh...the old: "the clothes make the man" argument.

Oh I don't know, would you take a doctor seriously that was wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt and a cowboy hat?

137 posted on 12/09/2005 7:59:15 AM PST by unixfox (AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
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To: Stultis

Everyone knows that part of Special Force duties are to hand out special hats as momentos for "secret" cruises up the Mekong to Cambodia.

Must have been "super-duper-secret" since the crew said that they, nor the boat, ever went on Apocalypse(?)Now.


138 posted on 12/09/2005 8:00:10 AM PST by Bob from De
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To: isthisnickcool
Re: the sky is falling

Doomed!

139 posted on 12/09/2005 8:01:49 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Imus in the Morning--The last bastion of scoundrels.


140 posted on 12/09/2005 8:02:54 AM PST by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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