Thursday, May 13, 2004
After Berg's Beheading, Kerry Condemns American 'Arrogance'
Even after Muslim terrorists in Iraq beheaded U.S. citizen Nick Berg, admitted war criminal John "Atrocities" Kerry denounced what he called American "arrogance."
Trying to keep the focus instead on the much lesser abuses of Iraqi prisoners by Americans, Kerry railed Tuesday at a fund-raiser in Louisville, Ky.:
"What has happened is not just something that a few, you know, privates and corporals or sergeants engaged in.
"This is something that comes out of an attitude about the rights of prisoners of war. It's an attitude that comes out of how we went there in the first place, an attitude that comes out of America's overall arrogance as policy.
"We've alienated countries all around the world, and I believe as president I know how to run a war on terror that actually makes America safer and stronger, and lives up to our values."
Speaking of alienating people, Kerry infuriated his own party by going to Louisville instead of showing up for work at the Senate to cast the deciding vote for extended jobless benefits.
President Bush's Kentucky campaign chairman, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, said, "He's been flip-flopping on the war like a fish on the deck of a boat."
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has denounced Kerry's exploitation of the prison abuses, including mass e-mailings that attacked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and begged for money, as a "creepy fund-raising gimmick."
Marc Racicot, the Bush-Cheney campaign chairman, said: "It's striking to see the ease with which John Kerry thrusts an important moment for our country into the campaign's daily spin cycle.
"At a moment when America and Americans stand strong behind our troops on the battlefield, John Kerry is attacking President Bush and the military and seeking to divide along party lines."
Kerry, by the way, continues to refuse to give details of the "atrocities" he has confessed to perpetrating in Vietnam.
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."
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