The blogosphere has jumped on Senator Kerry's statement that appears to be a retread of his Vietnam War-era testimony to Congress about the "Ghengis Khan" atrocities he claimed American troops routinely inflicted on the Vietnamese people:
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.
Not that he shouldn't be damned and mocked for this statement charging Americans are terrorizing women and childen. He richly deserves condemnation for this delusional attack on our troops.
But what hasn't been mentioned is his total disregard for the Iraqi people being "terrorized." You see, as part of this outrage, the good Senator from the world's greatest debilitated body continued his thought (from the same CBS transcript):
Whether you like it or not 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.
The "that" being terrorizing the Iraqis. Senator Kerry isn't upset that Iraqi children are being terrorized, and their religious and historic customs violated--it's that Americans are doing it. He's fine with Iraqi soldiers doing the terrorizing! Indeed, he seems offended that the authority to terrorize Iraqi civilians hasn't been transferred to the Iraqis after 2-1/2 years of training! Perhaps he'll call for an investigation of why we've been wasting our time teaching Iraqis how to fight when we should have been showing them the terrorizing skills they lack! This is truly a WTF moment in deep thinking.
And the fact that I just can't appreciate the deep nuance of this position condemns me to membership in the knuckle-dragging class of citizens who shouldn't be trusted with sharp objects or the right to vote. My God, the clock on my VCR/DVD player is probably blinking "12:00" even as I type.
And of course, Kerry repeats his call to withdraw 20,000 US troops after the election in Iraq, oblivious to the fact that this has been our plan for many months now. We overlapped troop rotations this fall to increase our strength on the ground by 20,000 troops and as the troops scheduled to leave Iraq go, our strength will go back to the pre-rotation level. Yet Kerry insists, contrary to reality, that the administration did not mention this until after he advocated this move! After Bob Schieffer actually quoted Rumsfeld saying troops would come out soon, Kerry said:
That had never been said until it was said that Sunday, which followed almost directly on the speech I gave at Georgetown University, where I called on the drawdown and told them precisely why they could do that.
Does Kerry seriously think Rumsfeld heard the news of Kerry's so-called proposal and leaped to react lest the brilliant Senator from France (and who served in Vietnam, you know) score some debating point? This is just political posturing by Kerry and is shameful. Or Kerry truly doesn't understand what is happening. Which is entirely plausible, I concede.
I await my next lesson in big-brained nuance from the whackjobs on the extreme Left. I nurse faint hopes that I, too, can understand the depths of nuanced thinking, despite my limitations.
