John Kerry--the gift that keeps giving

I've decided that, this year, all I want for Christmas is for John Kerry to keep attempting to articulate the Democratic position on the war on terror (with some assistance from Howard Dean--but that's another blog for another day).

On Sunday's "Face the Nation" program, John Kerry accused U.S. troops of terrorizing innocent Iraqi civilians.

Bob Schieffer says, "Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, he takes a very different view, Senator Kerry. He says basically that we should stay the course, because he says real progress is being made. He says, 'This is a war between 27 million Iraqis who want freedom and 10,000 terrorists.' He says we're in a watershed transformation. What about that?"

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 --

(transcript from Rush Limbaugh's website)

So, Kerry's position is:

~American troops are terrorizing kids and children (are these two different groups?) in the middle of the night (adding women as an afterthought). Is he serious? Is this what he thinks of our troops? Where is his concern for what Saddam Hussein was doing, which was terrorizing men, women, kids AND children in the morning, in the afternoon and in the middle of the night?)

~Breaking historical and religious customs (against breaking into people's homes in the middle of the night??). To what historical and religious customs is he referring? Here Kerry displays the breathless grasp of Middle Eastern culture and religion that would make him a great President. It is obvious that he has no idea what he is talking about. Watch the other Dems and the media for this new talking point--maybe Kerry was just trying it out to see if it had any 'legs'.

~The Iraqis should be doing this, not the American troops. I don't get this at all. Is he advocating that Iraqis should be terrorizing kids and children and women in the middle of the night and breaking their historial and religious customs?

~He doesn't agree that the war is between the Iraqi civilians who want peace and freedom and the terrorists? Who DOES he think the participants are in the war, exactly?

Really, it is scary that this guy is considered worthy of interviews on television, let alone an elected official who came anywhere close to winning a presidential election. I don't know if I can handle three more years of this....