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Deja vu all over again: Kerry slandering troops
In accusations about American troops reminiscent of what the young John Kerry said to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971, the senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee told CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer there was no reason for U.S. soldiers to continue "terrorizing" Iraqi children."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 â of â the historical customs, religious customs," Kerry said Sunday. "Whether you like it or not ... Iraqis should be doing that." Kerry called for a withdrawal of 20,000 troops following the Iraqi elections and a shift of activity to Special Forces troops and Iraqi military personnel. The senator from Massachusetts also said if he had it to do over again, he would no longer vote to authorize war in Iraq, accusing the administration of exaggerating the evidence for invasion. He voted for the invasion before he voted against it. "What I'm saying today is that this administration hyped the evidence, took every opportunity to go down a course that they wanted to go down, and that they did not judiciously parse or share with the Congress doubts that their own intelligence agencies had which they saw and we did not, and that means they misled us and misled the nation," he said. Posted by: Jackal 2005-12-06 |
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