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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Rangel’s Mouth

Rep. Charlie Rangel needs to muzzle himself.

    “We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody,” Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes.”

    [...]

    When an incredulous Sean Hannity expressed dismay at Rangel’s comments, the Harlem Democrat shot back, “How can you get so much satisfaction that two bums have been killed? We got bums all over the world and some in the United States.”

    Then Rangel mocked the U.S. military’s success in killing the two Hussein heirs, saying, “I personally don’t get any satisfaction that it takes 200,000 troops, 250,000 troops, to knock off two bums.”

OK, let’s inject a little reality here, the average bum on the street in the US isn’t beating a food taster to death or raping and torturing women or kneecapping soccer players because they lost a game, etc.

In addition, it’s hardly an assassination when the “two bums, but bodyguard and son” are in a four hour battle, firing back with “small arms” (which turned out to be AK-47s, yeah, that’s small) from a fortified hide out.

Rangel should be ashamed of himself.

LATER: LT Smash has an interesting list of the “two bums’” accomplishments.

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