Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Someone Please Explain This To Me

Open Mouth...Insert Foot...


I'm not even going to comment, I'll just let you decide based on the facts.

Here is the link to the transcript from CBS's "Face the Nation" show on Sunday.

Go read the entire thing if you have the time and the patience.

In the interview, half of Massachusetts contribution to the US Senate, John sKerry, was talking to Journalist Bob Schieffer...

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.

So sKerry still thinks that US soldiers are the actual terrorists, but in this case he also believes that what our troops are doing by entering homes in the dead of night looking for bombs and "insurgents" would be OK, as long as it was the Iraqis that were doing the terrorization?

WTF?

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