A case study on applying the party line to, well…anything.
Verbatim (with apologies for misspellings and punctuation, I typed this on the fly while listening to the debate on Pete Ashdown’s site :
http://peteashdown.org/media/video/20061011-debate.html )
The debate between Sen. Orin Hatch and Democratic opponent Pete Ashdown took place in St. George, Utah on October 11, 2006. After brief introductory comments, the first question was asked of Mr. Hatch:Q : Please briefly assess the situation in Iraq and tell us how you think the situation should be resolved.
( Now, let’s watch how a seasoned, professional Republican answers…)Hatch: Let’s understand…let’s understand, that 911 changed our lives forever because we were attacked in out mainland and 3000 people gave their lives because of the terrorism that is in this world.
( Amazing! We’re barely two lines in, folks and he’s already linked Iraq to 911…this man’s a pro!) This particular war is unlike any war that we’ve ever faced before. These people don’t wear uniforms, they don’t represent a country and they want to kill civilians; and they want to kill people who differ with them in their beliefs. We’ve done a very good job in Afghanistan;
(Well, he’s closer, Afghanistan is near Iraq, just nowhere near the question…) Afghanistan has the first representative form of government in the history of Afghanistan. We now have a representative form of government in Iraq as well,
(please notice how that “we” have a representative government there…I thought I read somewhere about democracies being of and for the people or something? No? Oh well, at least “we” have something, right?) something that people thought just couldn’t have been done. Three historic votes, the last one 80% of the people voted and I have to say they risked their lives to do so something that we don’t have to do here where we have such low a…voting.
(He kind of stumbled on that word there, like he couldn’t say that we voted here without laughing. And maybe we don’t risk our lives to vote here because it’s not being shoved down our throats…but that’s back to that by the people thing again, I belabor my point…) We have either captured or killed a great number of the al-Qaeda leaders.
( They were the ones in charge of Iraq, right? No?) We haven’t yet got Osama bin Laden
( he was in Iraq?) or Zawahiri but we got al-Zarqawi and a whole bunch of others including Khalid Sheik Mohamed. Fourteen of the eighteen provinces in Iraq are in relatively good control. Four of them we’re having difficulties with
( I’d say something more along the lines of 650,000 “difficulties” with, plus 2700+ difficulties, plus…) but let’s just put it this way, those three votes where people risked their lives established a constitution and a representative form of government that is now starting to take over and people are starting to realize that the civil violence that’s going on in that country is something that they don’t want to put up with. Saddam Hussein
( ah, back to Iraq), we deposed him. He killed 300,000 of his fellow citizens and buried them in mass graves. Those are Shiites that he killed. He killed 180,000 Kurds in the north and we have now put him out of business and we have him on trial as well.
(hmmm, there’s that “we” again. I thought this was the Iraqi’s trial…) Look, we have to win in Iraq. If we don’t win in Iraq we’re going to have problems with terrorism the rest of our lives.
(Mind f*cking blowing logic here, folks, pay attention!) Some have said we have to pull out of Iraq and some have said we have to set a timetable Well if we do that that’s just like telling the terrorists, wait till the timetable is over and …then we can just start up again.
(I think the word you’re thinking of there, Senator, is timeout. A timetable is a guideline, a projection…nothing set in stone.) General Abizaid said if we leave Iraq prematurely and we don’t finish the job the terrorists will follow after us right into this country and I can tell you as a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence that that is literally true.
( that the general said that, or that the terrorists will follow us into this country, whatever the hell that means. If that’s true, why don’t you vote to secure our ports, or maybe fund trying to catch bin Laden? Punk.) Now I’m gonna praise the troops
(Shocking, isn’t it? It’s almost as if Shrub himself were answering, mind blowing really.) that are fighting for us over there from a number of countries but especially our own and especially those who came from down here in southern Utah who have acted heroically over there have made a difference have fought and protected and helped people’s lives I know them, I’ve met them and I’ve met them before they went over in many cases and I’ve met them when they come home We’re lucky, lucky to have people like that representing us and we need to fight against terrorism.
( um, and the question, Senator? Oh, nevermind…)
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