RUSH: John Kerry beginning to undermine the war in a 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 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.
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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 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,
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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
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(February 19, 2004: CBS News Producer Coaches Kerry)
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