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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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?
Kerry is and always has been a pompous anti-American ass.
It expires when the people of Massachusetts grow a brain.
Dont look for it to happen any time soon.
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.
And Rush was never sent to Cambodia by President Nixon, before Richard Nixon was President.
Kerry was just reminiscing the days of his "tour" in Vietnam when he 'raized villiages...all in the fasion of Jengis Khan'.
Good post.
BTW, which subs?
If jean le french kerry wasn't so mortally STUPID and CLUELESS, he wouldn't have to continually extricate his foot from his big French mouth.
Or it implies that the rest of the time, they weren't being honest.
It's Rush Limbaugh's fault that he misspoke, just like it was the "&*#^@" (I'm quoting Kerry) Secret Service's fault that he fell down while skiing.
What a jerk.
I sure hope not.
Life would be so much more difficult without the guy.
...& his big mouth.
Who's we sucka? My idea of helping our soldiers must be different than most Democrats.
Kerry was "up river" when he made the remark.
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