Kristol: Lamont Victory a Win for the Terrorists
We usually don't link to people so inveterately immune to things like evidence and actual expert opinion, but if you really want to see delusion in the flesh, check out Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol talking about how Ned Lamont's victory helped the terrorists.
We usually don’t link to people so inveterately immune to things like evidence and actual expert opinion, but if you really want to see delusion in the flesh, check out Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol talking about how Ned Lamont’s victory helped the terrorists.
Wait, before you go…ThinkProgress:
Last week, Vice President Dick Cheney called Ned Lamont?s win in the Connecticut primary ?disturbing? because ?the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.?
Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol called Cheney?s remarks ?indisputably correct.? Kristol said that anyone who advocates redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq is helping al-Qaeda. Watch it:
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