On December 4, Senator John Kerry stated on Sunday morning television that American troops are “terrorizing” children and women in house-to-house searches in Iraq.  He chose the word “terrorizing”.  No one else did that.  He went on to say that our troops shouldn’t be “terrorizing” Iraqi citizens, and that instead it should be Iraqi’s who do that.

I will acknowledge that, on occasion, all of us use words inappropriately. In this case, however, I can’t sweep the comments under the rug for that reason.  No one should!  Senator Kerry has always chosen his words very carefully.  During his speech to Congress at the end of the Vietnam War, he was very careful in his choice of words.  They still got him in trouble since many of those words were well chosen lies.  

At that time he condemned American soldiers for having committed “atrocities” that, in fact, he never actually saw.  The speech made him famous and led years later to his failed run for the presidency. 

Now Senator Kerry is accusing American soldiers in Iraq of ‘terrorizing” Iraqi citizens.  I have to believe that he knew exactly what he was saying.  Linking Americans to “terror” is popular on the left.  This appears to be just another attempt by Kerry to gain the headlines and to rekindle his political fire.  The problem is that most of us don’t believe that our troops are “terrorizing” anyone.  They are being pressed to rid Iraq of bad guys who really DO terrorize people and who often hide out in the homes of seemingly innocent people.  That is what they should be doing.  That is what happens in guerilla warfare!

The other part of Senator Kerry’s statement probably should irritate Iraqi’s.  His belief that only Iraqi’s should be carrying out what HE calls “terrorizing” acts suggests something even worse than his condemnation of American troops.  That statement sounds a bit on the racist side to me.

With all of his wife’s money, I would hope that Senator Kerry doesn’t really have to work.  He adds nothing to the political landscape.  He is about as useless and un-informative as Al Franken.  His goal is so obviously selfish that it is almost laughable.

Now here is the really good part.  Many mainstream newspapers haven’t even reported this story.  Even worse, those leftist pundits who HAVE commented are attacking conservatives for misconstruing Kerry’s meaning.  I don’t get it.  Words are words and meaning is meaning.  Either he misspoke (which makes him ignorant and needing to apologize to our troops and to the people of Iraq) or he said what he said with intent (which is below the contempt of the American and Iraqi people).

Either way, it is time for Senator Kerry to go home and live the gigolo life that he so well deserves.