Howie Kurtz Transcribes (Interprets?) Palin

Howie Kurtz of the Washington Post, everybody:

"Sarah Palin, describing the need for more troops in Afghanistan, said the United States has achieved "victory" in Iraq.

In an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, the second part of which airs tonight, the Alaska governor pointed to logistical problems in battling the Taliban: "Things like the terrain even in Afghanistan and that border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where, you know, we believe that -- Bin Laden is -- is hiding out right now and . . . and is still such a leader of this terrorist movement. There . . . there are many more challenges there. So, again, I believe that . . . a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there as it has proven to have done in Iraq. And as I say, Katie, that we cannot afford to retreat, to withdraw in Iraq."

You have got to read the rest of the article. Holy shit. Shit holy. It's an abomination to God. Anathema to brain cells. Note, particularly, the part where she tries to blame the press (to a journalist!) for her assertion that seeing Russian dirt = foreign policy experience. Also do not fail to guffaw at her contention that terrorists, "they hate what we stand for with the . . . the freedoms, the democracy, the . . . the women's rights, the tolerance, they hate what it is that we represent and our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent."

Kill me now, Lord. I've done seen all there is to see on dis' Erf!