Thompson Downplays Iraq Insurgency: ‘A Bunch Of Kids With Improvised Explosive Devices’

Will the repugs ask him to apologize----?
Pass this around to the media!



http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Iraq

Thompson Downplays Iraq Insurgency: ‘A Bunch Of Kids With Improvised Explosive Devices’

thompsonkid.jpg Speaking during a stop in South Carolina today, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) downplayed the Iraq insurgency as child’s play. The insurgency is made up of “a bunch of kids with improvised explosive devices,” Thompson said:

We will not be a safer country, we will not be a safer America if the whole world watches us being defeated by a bunch of kids with improvised explosive devices.

CNN has video of his remarks.

The core of Thompson’s machismo argument for remaining in Iraq appears to be that we can’t lose to “a bunch of kids.” His “analysis” is detached from the reality of what troops face in Iraq. A 2006 report by the International Crisis Group noted that the Iraqi insurgency is “no longer is a scattered, erratic, chaotic phenomenon,” but rather had developed into a sophisticated, coordinated operation:

“Groups are well organized, produce regular publications, react rapidly to political developments and appear surprisingly centralized,” the report said.

It noted the insurgency, a predominately Sunni Arab movement, has grown “more confident, better organized, coordinated, information-savvy.”.............

we have the largest military in the world and for four years we have won nothing.

Some of us remember how that turned out.

...that so many of the leaders and potential leaders of this country are
lying, soul-lacking, bastards who have no conscience and no respect
for the citizens of this country.

I am so sick of the lies and the perversion.

The insurgency is a bunch of "kids with IEDS"? Actually, no. They're outraged
Iraqi citizens who have lost their electricity, their water, their homes, their
neighbors, their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and children. We've destroyed
their way of life and their security--their country. Those people fighting are
LIKE YOU AND ME, Mr Thompson!!! Because, I bet you a steak dinner that if a country decided
to invade the United States and kill a few million of us---you'd be out in the streets
as well--defending your family and your country.

I am so sick of the good guys (the truth tellers in this country) of being ripped apart and treated as if they are unpatriotic, insane or just plain stupid.

Being a good and decent person is now a bad thing in America. Telling the truth about warmongers and sociopaths means that you will be verbally eviscerated and destroyed. Being a scummy, classless,
lying, greedy, selfish, mutant bastard-on-a-stick is not only en vogue--it's necessary to
secure and retain public office.

Thompson without tv-studio lighting looks like a drunk in a suit with very little relevance coming out of his mouth and his hand holding with chicky-poo makes him look even m-o-r-e pathetic. sad, very sad!

n/t

I can just hear him...

Well of course not!

But perhaps some Democrats could make a little hay on this one...

I won't hold my breath.