Did John Kerry call U.S. soldiers terrorists?

CBS reports, you decide:

SCHIEFFER: All right. Let me shift to another point of view, and it comes from another Democrat, Senator Joe 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.

John Kerry proving once again that history is an excellent gauge of future performance.

Thanks to Michelle for turning us on to Captain Ed for the report and to Ian for capturing the video.

Comments

[MarineVet]

I read this yesterday on Michelle's blog also and I have to say I disagree with the Capt, Michelle, and you on this. I think you all were reading way too much into the comment. Kerry wasn't referring to U.S. troops as terrorists, (That would just be plain dumb), he was simply saying that sometimes the things our troops must do can be frightening/disturbing to the women and children, and yes in some ways disrespectful to the culture. What Kerry doesn't seem to understand though, is that our troops do these things out of necessity, for their own safety and the safety of the Iraqi people. I support the war in Iraq and I’m not trying to play devil’s advocate here, but I think we should leave the twisting of words into false statements to those in the far left.

[Felipe]

John Kerry is now beyond being able to ask for forgiveness.

We need to start a movement to call for his resignation, and if he refuses, we should declare him an enemy combatant, and then send him to one of those secret CIA prisons. Camp Gitmo is just too sweet for this rotten piece of camel dung. Besides, he is a terrorist lover, he would be in heaven there.