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CONRAD BURNS: I said we gotta win. He wants to pull out. He wants everybody to know our plan. That’s not smart. If you had a plan in order to win are you gonna tell the enemy? He’s not…the enemy’s not gonna tell us! That is absolutely unbelievable that anyone would take that approach! He says our president don’t have a plan. I think he’s got one. But he’s not gonna tell everybody in the whole world. And if you wanna go out and spar for a fight or you gonna tell your enemy what your plan is…I don’t think so. And that’s the way we’ll win it, Because we want to win it.
[SNIP TESTER REMARKS]
BURNS: Again he says there’s no plan. There is a plan. We’re not gonna tell you, John. We’re not gonna tell you what our plan is because you’ll just go out there and blow it. Period! By heavens, that’s just common sense. That’s enough.
JON TESTER: I just wanna say one thing.
BURNS: Wait a minute, hold the phone!
TESTER: Ok, all right, all right.
MODERATOR: This is his response.
TESTER: This is my response…
MODERATOR: Just this last word, then we’ll move on.
BURNS: No, I don’t think he has. I think he’s out of bounds.
MODERATOR: No, no.
TESTER: Mike asked me a question, I answered, you get to answer, I get to answer. That’s the way it works.
BURNS: Oh really?
TESTER: Yes.
BURNS: Like checkers?
TESTER: That’s the way it works. Well it’s interesting, Senator Burns because I listened to some of your comrades on TV last week who came back from Iraq, I guess they don’t know the plan either. The chairman of the Armed Services Committee doesn’t know the plan but you do. Because the chairman of the Armed Services Committee says that if things don’t change we need to change things. We need to have a plan.
It’d be nice if Burns wasn’t such an ass. Way to be rude and confirm every impression of him as a boorish jerk.
It would also be nice if Bush and Burns shared their secret plan for Iraq with the generals trying to hold things together in that misbegotten hellhole.
Brilliant response by Jon, by the way. He’s going to be a great U.S. Senator that will make not just Montana, but all of our great nation proud.
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