Reply #135: Even Senator Kerry's comments are now being twisted and distorted

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Of late I have not been known to be a defender of much of Senator's Kerry's public remarks in interviews on the matter of the war in iraq. But this morning i am compelled to voice my outrage with Commentator Paul Harvey, whose radio commentary is featured on a local am radio station each morning and at noon (KGO).

Harvey took Sen.Kerry's statements (made in an interview with CBS' FACE the Nation Bob Scheiffer this past Sunday regarding certain tactical procedures our troops are faced to be involved with in urban warfare)and twisted them, essentially accusing Kerry as accusing our troops acting like terrorists, by taking issue with any notion that our troops might be viewed as terrorists in the eyes of Iraqis.

Kerry didn't say our troops are terrorists, and though it might be implied in Senator Kerry's remarks, the issue goes to the core of why we are not "winning" the hearts and minds of the Iraqi, and apparently Paul Harvey has an issue with looking at any of this through the eyes of the occupied.

The remarks Paul Harvey has issue with are below, but Harvey does not include the full context, nor does he include the full quote in this morning's rant against Senator Kerry.


A transcript of Harvey's comments do not seem to be available on Harvey's website: http://www.paulharvey.com/
nor does it seem to be available at KGO's site http://www.kgoam810.com/home.asp

But here is Senator Kerry's quote being distorted in RW media, as shown in Face the Nation transcript:


Sen: Kerry: ... (snip)

"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 the night, terrorzing kids and chioldren, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the-of-the historical customary religious customs.. Whehter you like it or not...

Schieffer: Yea

Sen. Kerry: ...Iraqis should be doing that. And after all of these two and half years, with all of the talk of 210,000 people trained, there just is no excuse for not transferring more of that authority."

(snip)

full text of transcript:

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_120405.pdf

pages 4, 5

edited my remarks for better clarity, grammatical and spelling errors.