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Ärende: Kerry
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The troops will remember who supported them and who didn't....  The 
other thing that no democrat will discuss is that no terrorist attack 
has occurred on US soil since 9/11.  No embassy bombings, no Navy ships 
bombed.  The Clinton's record was no more than a couple of years between 
events.

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John Kerry Calls American Troops Terrorists 
 
December 5, 2005 
 

 

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 
 
 
RUSH: John Kerry beginning to undermine the war in a big effort now, in 
a big way. Let's go the sound bite. This is Face the Nation yesterday. 
Bob Schieffer says, "Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, he 
takes a very different view, Senator Kerry. He says basically that we 
should stay the course, because he says real progress is being made. He 
says, '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?" 

 JOHN KERRY: 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 -- of -- of -- historical customs, religious 
customs, whether you like it or not. Iraqis should be doing that. And 
after all of these two and a half years, with all -- 

RUSH: (laughing) Iraqis ought to be terrorizing Iraqi women and 
children! He (interruption). Yes he did. Yes he did just say it. Cue it 
back up, Mike. Yes, he did. He said, "...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 customs, the historical customs, religious customs, 
whether you like it or not. Iraqis ought to be doing that." Here, listen 
to it again. If you didn't believe it the first time you heard it, 
listen to it again. 

JOHN KERRY: 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, uh-uh-uh, you know, women, breaking sort 
of the customs of the -- of -- of -- of -- historical customs, religious 
customs, 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. 

SCHEIFFER: But you're not saying -- 
 
 
RUSH: There's so much... I'm sorry I even have to play this buffoon for 
you, but he's assumed the position of official Democrat Party spokesman 
on this. He's putting himself out there, so we have to deal with it. 
There's so much wrong with this. You've got to begin to transfer 
authority to the Iraqis? What's been going on the last year and a half 
that he hasn't noticed, number one. Number two: "After all these 2-1/2 
years and all the talk of 210,000 people trained, no excuse for not 
transferring more of that authority"? What are we in the process of 
doing? All these people are trying to do is get ahead of something that 
is already happening so they can take credit for it. But this business 
that US soldiers are terrorizing Iraqi women and children, you now, if 
you doubted John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign, if you 
doubted anybody, the Swift Boat Vets, if you doubted anybody about him, 
you shouldn't now. It is clear what he thinks of the US military. His 
view is common throughout the Democratic Party. The only Senate Democrat 
who sounds like FDR or Truman right now, is Joe Lieberman. You've got 
the likes of John Kerry and Dick Durbin now echoed by Harry Reid and Ted 
Kennedy as the voice of the modern Democratic Party, which despises the 
US military and feels no compunction whatsoever to characterize them as 
terrorists. Let's go back to April 22, 1971 -- and this is Kerry, 
testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about his tour 
in Vietnam. 

 JOHN KERRY: They told the stories of times that 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 the fashion 
reminiscent of Jen-giss [sic] Khan, not isolated incidents, but crimes 
committed on a day-to-day basis with a full awareness of officers at all 
leveled of command. 

RUSH: So he came back and he lied about atrocities that he never saw. He 
accused men of committing these atrocities. He never saw them. He lumped 
himself in at some point with having participated in them, but he never 
saw these things committed. That truth has come out. He has not seen US 
soldiers terrorize kids and children in the dead of night in Iraq, and 
yet he can't help it because this is who he is -- and who he is, is a 
carbon copy of today's modern Democratic Party. This is how they view 
the American military man and woman; this is how they view their own 
country. We are the terrorists. We brutalize. We're the barbarians. We 
are cowards. We are doing things like this under cover of darkness. It 
is shocking to have to play this stuff for you, but I feel compelled to 
do it because so many people still want to have their head in the sands 
about all this. How much longer do we have to pretend these people are 
patriots? How much longer do we have to do that, folks? We've got Ramsey 
Clark, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy -- who, of course, said that 
our running of Abu Ghraib prison was no different than a change of 
management. In fact, we're doing it just as badly and doing just as 
rotten things as Saddam did. They don't speak like patriots, folks, and 
they don't act like patriots. In this comment, John Kerry is anti-
American. He's trying to get away with making you think he is pro-
American and pro-military because we're in a situation that the 
president put us all in that's untenable and it's not these people's 
fault; it's all Bush's fault. But make no mistake that's not how this is 
heard around the world. This is cheered by our enemies. This is not 
patriotism. This is not patriot speech. It's not patriot actions. This 
is pure anti-American, anti-anti-US military and these are the 
mouthpieces of the Democratic Party today who are assigned the effort of 
saying these things: constantly slam our own country, pretending that 
they're slamming Bush. And it's true incidental they hate Bush. There's 
no question. But they have to know that they're pounding our 
institutions, and the people who support them know it. International 
Answer, Code Pink, all these other loon, left-wing peace groups are all 
part of the same organization. They are invested in our defeat. They are 
now agitating for our defeat. They are seeking our defeat -- and I, for 
one, find nothing patriotic about it. 

BREAK TRANSCRIPT 
 
 
RUSH: So you've got Durbin comparing interrogators and military 
personnel in uniform to Pol Pot's thugs, Soviet gulag operators, and 
Nazi soldiers and so forth -- and, of course, all hell descended on 
Durbin after that. I'm just wondering if this comment by Kerry will 
cause a similar crescendo. I mean, when he actually has gone out now and 
repeated what he said in April of 1971. Those were total lies in 1971. 
He couldn't substantiate these allegations he was making, and now he 
comes back and basically accuses young soldiers, American soldiers, of 
terrorizing Iraqi kids and children and breaking their historical and 
religious customs, and that there's no reason for this, and that it must 
stop. This is clearly agitating for defeat. It's a disguised attempt 
here, folks, at ripping Bush. But this is an all-out assault on their 
own country. These people are not courageous. It doesn't take any guts 
for Kerry to go to the Senate floor or to go on Face the Nation in front 
of a friendly audience and say what he says. They like to think of 
themselves as courageous, but that term it misused -- usually by them to 
define their opposition to the war. 

What these people are doing is not gutsy. It doesn't take courage or 
guts to do what they're doing at all. It's the easiest thing in the 
world. Liberalism is the easiest, most gutless choice anybody can make. 
Courage is speaking for freedom while faced with tyranny, not speaking 
for tyranny while living in freedom -- and these people are advocating 
tyranny by suggesting Saddam shouldn't have been deposed, maybe we 
shouldn't even proceed with this trial, that Iraqis were better off. I 
mean, these are the people that claim, folks, to have all these 
interests in human rights and civil rights and freedom and love and 
tolerance, and they're willing to consign the Iraqi population back to 
this thug dictator and all of his evil and all of his horrors -- and at 
the same time they want to be called courageous for doing so! Well, this 
is the exact opposite of courage. Courage is when you are tyrannized, 
when you're living in tyranny, and you dare speak up for your own 
freedom. These people are living in freedom. They're protected by it, 
and they are speaking up for tyranny -- and you've gotta add Jimmy 
Carter to this list. 

Add Carter, and Bill Clinton as well. Carter in many ways is difficult 
to distinguish from Ramsey Clark, because Carter is out there currently 
constantly embracing dictators, from Castro to that pot-bellied little 
fool in North Korea, Kim Jong Il or Kim Jung Il, Kim Il Jung, whatever 
they go by. They're always just out there traveling the world denouncing 
us. Clinton himself often comes close, but he pulls back. He'll go over 
to Dubai and rip the soldiers. He will not call them terrorists, but 
he'll demoralize them and attempt to make illegitimate their effort, 
then he'll come back and change his mind when he's speaking to an 
American audience. I guess he thinks this is courage, too, telling an 
audience what it wants to hear, even trying to triangulate the war. Then 
in the meantime, you've got Joe Lieberman who is the black sheep of this 
party because he speaks the truth and defends his country, but he's 
totally ignored. He's an outcast in his own party. Instead, you've got 
people like Cindy Sheehan and John Murtha, lauded, praised, because they 
undermine the war -- and in the process, undermine their country. Then 
you've got the media, nothing more than the Democrat National Committee 
house organ, the Democrat National Committee Times, the Democrat 
National Committee NBC, the DNC-ABC, and it's sickening. It is just 
sickening -- and they must pay a price. 

BREAK TRANSCRIPT 
 
 
RUSH: Listen to this again. John Kerry, Face the Nation yesterday. 
Again, nobody watches this show, and that's why you may have missed 
this. 

JOHN KERRY: [T]here 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, uh-uh-uh, you know, women, breaking sort of the 
customs of the -- of -- of -- of -- historical customs, religious 
customs, whether you like it or not. Iraqis should be doing that. 

RUSH: Now, folks, is it me, or does this man sound like he has dementia? 
He just blabs away. If you saw the whole appearance, he just blabs away, 
says whatever enters his mind, regardless of its possible effect on our 
troops, regardless of whether it makes any sense. As long as he's being 
paid attention to, he will pursue any hapless effort again at winning 
the presidency. But it's totally hapless. Don't forget, this is the guy -
- and the reason he does this is because he knows that he's never going 
to be scrutinized by the press. That pitiful performance of his outside 
the White House last week where he contradicted himself inside of six 
sentences about his policies on troop withdrawal, whether it would work 
or not work? It was one of the most incoherent convoluted things he said 
since he said, "I voted for it before I voted against it," but he's 
confident he can get away with this because he knows he's not going to 
be scrutinized. Remember, this is the guy when CBS a bunch of the press 
were running around asking him some questions, he gave this long, 
winding answer that nobody could make sense of, and CBS said, "Senator, 
you want to do another take on that? We don't have a sound bite in 
there." Now, rather than air it as rambling incoherence, in vain search 
of a cogent thought, the media gives him take two, which is what he got -
- and in this case, he says this; there's no outrage from Bob Schieffer. 
There's not even a raised eyebrow from Bob Schieffer. There's a, you 
know, stroke the chin with the hand and give it considerable thought; 
"Why, senator, you may be on to something, hmmmmm." It's just absurd. 
But at the same time all these people think they're being courageous! 
Kerry, I'm sure, thinks this is a great act of courage -- just like he 
thought when he thought April 22nd, 1971, was a great act of courage. 

END TRANSCRIPT



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