Senator Kerry, Still Stuck on "Jenjis Khan"

American soldiers are "terrorizing children." Who knew?

On Face the Nation:

Sen. KERRY: ...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.

SCHIEFFER: Well, you're not saying we should stop fighting these insurgents?

Sen. KERRY: Absolutely not. In fact, in my plan, I have said very specifically that we need to keep Special Forces capacity. We need to have the ability to go after hard intelligence. We need to chase down Zarqawi. But we do not need 160,000 troops running around the country as a whole, exposing themselves as they are, feeding the notion of occupation. Let me just emphasize this.

First of all, Dick Cheney has been very firm on the vital need to have our troops going into homes in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, and you know, women. It's not so much that it helps the war effort, so much as it's "really freaking hilarious," as our Vice President said in a speech in Cincinnati.

Second, he just accused our soldiers of "terrorizing" children, as if American troops are riding into peaceful hamlets like James Earl Jones and the guy with the big maul in Conan the Barbarian.

Was that a poorly chosen word? Of course not; he meant to say it. John Kerry is a genius and does not flub his words. Don't you know who he is?

Third: It's amusing that he thinks the job of "terrorizing children" should be performed by Iraqis. That's kind of Kerry's whole "Iraq Plan" -- have someone else do it. Maybe he could get our "historic allies," the French and Germans, to put up some troops for the purpose of "terrorizing children" in the "dead of night."

The Germans, I'm reliably informed, have some good experience at doing just that. Just ask Anne Frank. Oh, wait, you can't; they killed her.

Thanks to Hoge.

posted by Ace at 02:01 PM

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