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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."
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"Kerry said that "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,"
quite an accusation, coming from a guy who shot a fleeing 16 year old in the back.....and negligently set up the circumstances that resulted in the death of at least one child in a sampan
"Would he rather fight the war in the streets of Boston and have his constituents scared?"
Yes.
He'd rather have Americans dying at home and have the world think highly of us. As opposed to terrorists dying in Iraq and having the world think poorly of us.
Especially since he knows his socialist, French loving butt will be protected.
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.
don't you know by now that when kerry, murtha, et. al. open their mouths and say something, the next day they say "what I said is not what I meant, and if what I meant gets me into hot water, then it was taken out of context and what I meant and said is not what I truly feel, unless someone agrees with what I meant or said..in which case I really meant it..
they want to talk out of all sides of their mouths leaving options every time they speak..
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."
He signed it but never submitted it to the Military Personnel Records Center in St Louis. And he never will, because that would reveal his Undesirable Discharge from the Navy.
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’.”
Kerry and the Kennedys are all professional dufusses. Just because they were born filthy rich they think they are great sages worthy of all. In reality they are useless scumbagg worth about ten pounds of hog shite all together!
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.
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