Washington - Senator John Kerry sought to distance himself today from his weekend remarks on CBS's Face The Nation that "there is no reason, Bob, that American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing women and children, destroying the-uh-ah, religious thing, and so forth, raping and pillaging and, er, helping themselves to the falafel like Jenjis Khan and so on, which is exactly the sort of terrorism thing that is what the-umm, Iraqis are supposed to be um, doing, and, also, oh #*!@... did I just say something about terrorizing? Well, Bob, you obviously know what I mean, um, right Bob? Help me out here, Bob."
In clarifying his earlier statement, Kerry today said that he supported US military personnel, but was "simply pointing out that American terrorizing could be done in, ah, ah, a more thoughtful and sensitive and appropriate manner, uh, that respects, er, Iraqi religious, er, things, and rights to self-terrorizing."
"Let us make no mistake," said Kerry, "when it comes to the non-terrorization of minors, there is no, ah, reason there cannot be a administration policy against it not being done by American, uh, soldiers during appropriate non-night times, in non-foreign countries, and without non-appropriate religious insensitivity, and so on."
"I have three Purple Hearts," he added.
"Dear Lord, if you can't make me a better man, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am.".
