Debunking the Right Wings Attack on John Kerry’s Face the Nation Interview

[kerrygoddess]

Debunking the Right Wings Attacks on John Kerry’s Face the Nation Interview
December 6th, 2005

Sunday on Face the Nation, John Kerry said: “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…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.”

Now, as to be expected, right wingers from Newsmax.Com, the Washington Times, Swift Boat liar John O’Neill on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are twisting Kerry’s words and accusing him of saying that our troops are “terrorists.” Talk about a grandiose stretch of the word “terrorize” which Kerry used to describe the feelings that any woman or child would have under the circumstances described by Kerry.

Once again, what we are seeing here from these Swift Boat Liar enablers, is the same thing we saw during the ‘04 election cycle. Those lying, crooked SOB’s, who John Kerry predicted would say anything to destroy him in 2004, are back.

What this all boils down to in a nutshell, is John Kerry is doing what he has always done and will always do — He is speaking from the gut, speaking the truth to power on behalf of our troops, as he did in 1971 when he earned a place on Richard Nixon’s enemies list. Nothing has changed — John Kerry has spoken out time and time again against the Bush administration, earning himself a place on Bush’s enemies list. The fact is John Kerry has been every Republican president’s worst nightmare since Nixon. With Reagan it was his exposing of Iran Contra, with Bush I, it was BCCI.

Because John Kerry is not afraid to stand and speak the truth to power, the Bush administration sends our their surrogate smear mongers to do their dirty work. They can’t stand to hear the truth, they don’t want the public to know the truth, so they try to cover the truth by spreading lies and smears and take the heat off their mishandling of Iraq. But Kerry isn’t letting up - just yesterday he reiterated his call for Rumsfeld to resign. Kerry has a plan to bring the troops home in 2006 and that doesn’t work with BushCo’s plan to “stay the course.”

John Kerry does not want to see American soldiers put in needless danger on missions that are counter-productive and grow the insurgency. Instead, as he has said, “Iraqis should be police Iraqi streets, Iraqis should be searching Iraqi homes, and Iraqis should be standing up for their own country. ” That is what is in the best interests of American troops and will bring success in Iraq.

The concerns John Kerry spoke about on Sunday have been articulated by American military leaders and reported in the MSM:

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[joefree1]

1. And John Kerry has been here before

Good post, thanks.

[Tony_Illinois]

2. It Doesn't Matter What Rush Limbaugh Says Anymore, Does It?

He is pretty generally understood to be a buffoon, even by his ditto-idiots. The fact that he will not take a call on his show from anyone critical of his "point of view" tells you all you need to know. My guess is he does not trust himself with criticism--what with all of his deep, dark secrets, inability to make a "marrige" work, and the drug abuse.
-- NewsMax is a rag
-- Laura Ingraham -- Just a cleaned up Ann Coulter; full of hate (but love for Clarence Thomas).

[LittleClarkie]

7. However, some here think that Kerry gave Rush some ammo

with his words. I've seen more than one person on Kos and here say that Kerry was stupid to use the word "terrorize".

Like being awoken in the middle of the night by soldiers breaking into your house wouldn't scare a person, esp. women and children.

I'm confused though. Some folks want him to come out swinging, some want him to parse, some to shut the fuck up. Eh, whatcha gonna do. Can't please everyone.

[Tony_Illinois]

10. I Get Your Point, but whatever he said these haters would distort

and launch their twisted criticisms. I think he should NOT change his language based upon what these wing-nuts might do or say.

[LittleClarkie]

11. I agree. While some here feel that way, I am not one of them.

I think he was speaking truth, myself. And you don't parse truth. People will hopefully recognize it when they hear it.

[yodermon]

12. Exactly.

It is well known that these wing-nuts are motherfuckers, yet some gasp and faint in shock when the wingnuts actually try to fuck their mothers. Go figure.

[wisteria]

3. Its a shame that he can't discuss cultural differences and the

security of our troops without his words being twisted and his honor being attacked by no other than Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Neil.

It is just ourtragious the lengths they will go to smear and silence disenting points of views.

[kerrygoddess]

9. They are afraid of him

It's that simple.

[MH1]

4. The smear-mongers are really reaching on this one, aren't they?

Like you said: "Talk about a grandiose stretch of the word “terrorize” which Kerry used to describe the feelings that any woman or child would have under the circumstances described by Kerry."

I've seen pictures of those terrorized kids, women, and even men.

You'd be terrorized too, Mr Limbaugh and Ms Ingraham, if confronted by a group of armed uniformed people yelling at you in a foreign language, especially when you have heard the stories of people being gunned down for not responding "correctly" to some command shouted in that foreign tongue. You'd be terrorized because you have no idea what those yelling armed people want you to do, and you believe they may shoot you at any minute for not doing it.

Menawhile, the armed foreigners are only doing what they've been ordered and trained to do. Maybe they are yelling because they were told to do it, or maybe because they themselves are scared shitless and don't even realize they're yelling.

And they haven't been trained to speak Iraqi.

[kerrygoddess]

5. I guess we can never cease to be amazed by them

This is priceless - Sirota's attack on Limbaugh - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1329

[kskiska]

6. Surely, some quotes can be dug up

of wingnuts using the word "terrorize."

[kerrygoddess]

8. Good idea. N/T

[zann725]

13. I often wonder what JK did with all that info he gathered on BCCI.

Like Fitz now, JK is relentless. And JK apparently had SO MUCH on them which was 'explored,' but not fully acted on. A good prosecutor (as JK clearly is/was) is like a pit bull...in not letting go easily.

Now with new crimes by a lot of these same criminals resurfacing, it has to be a real 'hair-shirt' for JK, the prosecutor.

I agree, he's out there on the talk show circuit more lately, and definitely more visible, and I do give him credit for that.

But I still wonder about what I sense is a great deal of BCCI info he collected which was NOT fully acted on.

[capitalistdemocrat]

14. To the knowing observer...

It is clear that Kerry didn’t mean for it to come out that way. Unfortunately, it did come out that way. Unlike Kerry, he seemed to be stuttering as he spoke. I suppose he would have been better off to keep stuttering. Because now he has the taste of leather in his mouth.

[kerrygoddess]

15. Stuttering?

Oh please. I have a clip of this on my blog he was not stuttering.

[capitalistdemocrat]

17. Uh, uh, uh, uh...

He was definitely stuttering.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

18. Hey capitalistdem, who is this "he?"

Unlike Kerry, he seemed to be stuttering as he spoke.

Maybe the "stutter" is in the perception.

[emdee]

16. Anytime someone cannot use direct quotes in context....

someone should be asking why. Since the media won't do it, thank Goodness for bloggers. The RW is notorious for rewording and twisting whatever is said because they know that their Base will only hear the twisted version and not the exact in-context message (for instance, the way they quote Kennedy as being behind Bush but upon reading his whole speech he actually says quite the opposite, and in strong language too).

emdee