Quote of the Week

I know it's only Monday, but I think a statement that John Kerry made yesterday on Face the Nation might hold up as the most remarkable quote of the week.

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SCHIEFFER: All right. Let me shift to another point of view, and it comes from another Democrat, SenatorJoe Lieberman of Connecticut. He takes a very different view. He says basically we should stay the course because, he says, real progress is being made. He said 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?

Sen. KERRY: Let me--I--first of all, there is so much more that unites Democrats than divides us. And Democrats have much more in common with each other than they do with George Bush's policy right now. Now Joe Lieberman, I believe, also voted for the resolution which said the president needs to make more clear what he's doing and set out benchmarks, and that the policy hasn't been working. We all believe him when you say, `Stay the course.' That's the president's policy, which hasn't been changing, which is a policy of failure. 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--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not...

SCHIEFFER: Yeah.

Sen. KERRY: ...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.

UNBELIEVABLE!

ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!

Kerry says that young American soldiers shouldn't be doing the terrorizing of women and children in the dead of night. The authority to carry that out should be given to the Iraqis.

That is hilarious! Kerry has learned NOTHING in the past thirty-five years. He still views the American soldier as an evil force.

Does Kerry think it's 1971?

(I don't watch Face the Nation, so I completely missed this. Thanks, New Media.)