Posted by
Hueguenot on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:07:50 AM
Well.
Now that the Senate Democrats have suddenly decided that our servicemen and women are worthy of more than thinly-veiled contempt, and that, previous bleatings aside, it is now okay to call someone unpatriotic, I'm waiting for Senators Reid and Harkin to condemn the utterers of these (in)famous lines. I'll even let them take these quotes in their full context, rather than taking out of context two words and purposefully lying about their meaning:
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation [our troops] are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win" -- Michael Moore
Maybe Sen. Harkin (an authority on phony war heros) can work in some snide remark here, like "Well, I don’t know. Maybe he was just high on his Twinkies or pork rinds again. I don’t know whether he was or not. If so, he ought to let us know. But that shouldn’t be an excuse."
Well, I’ll tell you exactly what happened. One Marine was killed and the Marines just said we’re going to take care – we don’t know who the enemy is, the pressure was too much on them, so they went into houses and they actually killed civilians." -- Rep. John Murtha
Can we get Oliver Stone in here to confirm this? By the way, I think Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt is still awaiting Murtha's apology.
"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--the historical customs, religious customs." -- Sen. John Kerry
apparently getting his information straight from Jesse MacBeth.
"Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." -- Sen. John Kerry
Well, at least "stupid" is a step up from "war criminals."
"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings." Sen. Dick Durbin
alluding to the death camps at Abu Ghraib and the Killing Fields of Guantanamo Bay.
"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." -- Sen. Barack Obama
the Audacity of Ignorance
“I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief,’’ -- Sen. Hillary Clinton
borrowing a term from literary criticism to call General Petraeus a liar
"General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" -- MoveOn.org
Get it? "Petraeus" and "Betray Us" rhyme. Really - look closely.
I'm no parliamentarian, so someone help me out here - is there a Senate procedure to censure oneself?:
"this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday" -- Sen. Harry Reid (prior to the Petraeus report)
I'm calling in sick to work today. I'll be watching C-SPAN with a bowl of popcorn, in anticipation. I'll be careful with that popcorn, though. There's enough hypocrisy and mock outrage in the hallowed Senate chambers right now to choke a rhinoceros.