Doesn’t sound quite as good as BushKerry, but still.
If I identified one key line out of the BushKerry debate, it was “kill”, how badly Kerry wanted to “kill the terrorists”. Edwards wants to kill too, but I think the line of tonight’s debate has to be Dick Cheney’s. In a spirited attempt to wrest the killer title back from John Kerry/John Edwards, he noted — at least twice, that “We’ve killed thousands” (of al-Qaeda, of course).
Was that always something to be so proud of? “We’ve killed thousands”?
Doesn’t sound quite as good as BushKerry, but still.
If I identified one key line out of the BushKerry debate, it was “kill”, how badly Kerry wanted to “kill the terrorists”. Edwards wants to kill too, but I think the line of tonight’s debate has to be Dick Cheney’s. In a spirited attempt to wrest the killer title back from John Kerry/John Edwards, he noted — at least twice, that “We’ve killed thousands” (of al-Qaeda, of course).
Was that always something to be so proud of? “We’ve killed thousands”?
The moment for Latin Americans (you’ve heard about the all-important Latino vote, right?) had to be when Dick Cheney offered El Salvador as an example model for Afghanistan. The story: there was a guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador, 75,000 dead, but democracy prevailed.
I couldn’t help but yell at the TV screen: “Who killed the 75,000, Dick?”
Dick, always considerate, was happy to answer: “We’ve killed thousands”.
