Bloody JackAss
John Kerry appeared on C-Span and made an ass out of himself this morning. While taking calls a woman says she voted for him and is thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to him then tells him she remembers the horrible killing in Vietnam after we pulled out and she remembers the boat people. He almost interrupts her but she continues to say that she is concerned about Iraq. That she’d like to see us out of there but she doesn’t want to leave our allies. She asks if there is any way to force a new election that Sunnis could participate in and says she doesn’t think Maliki is on our side. I suspect this lady has been reading Matt’s blog.
Kerry tells her that is an astute observation about Maliki and then switches gears. He says that there was no bloodbath after we left Vietnam, and goes on to say that he’s met many, many people who survived reeducation camps and are “thriving”. His voice gets a little quieter when he says the word reeducation, like if he says it softly it won’t be as horrible, then as he gets to the many, many people he has met who are thriving he goes back to a more confident and turns up the volumn. Bad word passes and glossed over with many, many and thriving.
While it is no surprise to me that Kerry thinks reeducation camps are not such a big deal, or that attempts to sweep some three million bodies under the rug of rewritten history by proclaiming there was no bloodbath, it is also no surprise that there wont be any attempt to correct him by any major media. I would love to be proven wrong on this but it won’t happen. When Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the holocaust never happened there was at least a little notice taken. Kerry claiming there were no Killing Fields will likely not be reported outside of the blogosphere and AM radio.
Reporting Kerry’s absurd statement would mean a debate over the actual consequences of leaving Iraq. Consideration for the possibility of ethnic cleansing and human rights horrors would have to be talked about. Facing up to the very real consequences of leaving the mess that is Iraq is not something the press or the democrats controlling congress seem to want to discuss.
How about a Michael Moore documentary digging into Kerry’s family financial ties with North Vietnam? Billion dollar real estate deals while he championed the cause of normalized trade at the expense of our unaccounted for POWs is old news I suppose.
