Why We're in Iraq
Here's part of the transcript from Ann Coulter's Wednesday night appearance on "Scarborough Country" (with guest host Pat Buchanan and fellow guest Robert Reich):
COULTER: I think the point is this is going to be hard. It‘s going to take a long time. But it‘s something that absolutely has to be done. We need...
BUCHANAN: Why?
COULTER: We need an Arab Israel over there. We can‘t keep pimping for Israel. We need a puppet government. We need to be on the ground. We need a friendly government. We need democracy.
And what if they don't want to be our puppet goverment?
REICH: Ann, I really would very much like to have your view on this. What happens if their form of democracy says: “We don‘t want Americans here. We don‘t like America. We want radical Islamic fundamentalists. We want to have a radical Islamic fundamentalist state that is virulently anti-American”?
And what happens if their democracy turns out to be a democracy that actually harbors terrorism because they hate America so much? What happens then? What is our response then? Is that a kind of democracy that we are willing to stand for?
COULTER: No. And it‘s not going to happen.
REICH: How do you know it‘s not going to happen?
(CROSSTALK)
COULTER: To hypothesize, you know, what if they elected Adolf Hitler? OK, we‘ll cross that bridge when we get to it. But it‘s not going to happen.
REICH: Well, see, that‘s exactly the problem, crossing that bridge when we get to it. The fact is, there‘s no route, there is no highway, there is no signpost. The administration has given us absolutely no indication of where we are going, why we are going there.
COULTER: Yes, it has. It very clearly has.
Iraq is going to be an American-loving, Western-style democracy because we want it to be one. THAT'S why.
And how is that going to happen? The way George Bush told us it would. You know, through freedom.
And we will win this war, because America is virtuous -- and not afraid to kill lots of people to prove it. And because George Bush is a Democrat.
BUCHANAN: Ann Coulter, Colonel Hackworth suggests that the way we are fighting this war, for example, in Fallujah, I guess we killed about 600 or something like that, and we came in very heavy and very tough after the murder and mutilation of those four contractors, that that may not be the way to fight the war. What are your thoughts on that?
COULTER: Wars are similar in some ways and different in some ways.
All wars are.
But, no, the idea that this is Vietnam is preposterous. Only the Democrats could take the world‘s greatest superpower to war and lose the war. Democrats lost Vietnam because they don‘t believe in America‘s virtue. They‘re squeamish about projecting America‘s power around the world. Look at John Kerry. He votes for the war, but then doesn‘t vote to fund it.
That‘s how the Democrats take the nation to war. They love throwing American troops and money around the world. But then they won‘t commit to when. In Vietnam, a Republican either wouldn‘t have gone to war or would have fought it to win. And as long as George Bush is president, this is not going to be another Vietnam.
REICH: I don‘t know how we could have won Vietnam, given how we began Vietnam. And do you think that if we had stayed in Vietnam we would have won it and that we should have stayed and continued to bomb?
COULTER: I think it‘s a curious fact is that we only lose wars that Democrats run.
REICH: That is absolutely bizarre. That reasoning is absolutely absurd.
Well, it's the only kind of reasoning of which Ann is capable: Right makes might. The American way is the only way. Republicans are good, Democrats are bad. And everything would be perfect, if not for those meddling liberals.
She's just the kind of apologist the Bush Administration deserves.
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