"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.
"It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.," he continued. "You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
The 12-year Republican senator from Pennsylvania said he's "a big Lord of the Rings fan." He's read the first of the series, "The Hobbit" to his children (he has six).
I don't know where to begin. I guess I could understand the analogy if he were actually talking to school children about Iraq. But then the good Senator Rick Santorum would be lying to children, which would add to his many sins.
But no, he is just making those statements to the press.
So I guess he thinks Pennsylvania voters are so stupid that they cannot understand what is going on in Iraq without it being dumbed down to that of a fantasy tale.
But I guess it is appropriate. When Rick Santorum speaks about the war on terror, he must resort to fantasy.
Santorum insisted the U.S. needed to take out Saddam Hussein because he "by all accounts had weapons of mass destruction ... he was fomenting terrorism, he was paying for terrorists to kill Israelis, and we has supporting terrorist objectives."
The Casey Campaign's response:
"You have to really question the judgment of a U.S. Senator who compares the war in Iraq to a fantasy book," said Casey spokesman Larry Smar. "This is just like when he said Kim Jong Il isn't a threat because he just wants to 'watch NBA basketball.'"
According to a Patriot-News editorial, Santorum said the North Korea dictator "doesn't want to die; he wants to watch NBA basketball" as a reason for why Iran is the bigger nuclear threat.
And just to top it off...Rick Santorum believes American troops should stay in Iraq for 40 more years.
But he seemed frustrated by questions about U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.
"I don't think you ask that question," he said. "I know that's the question everybody wants to ask. But I don't think anyone would ask that question in 1944, 'Gee how long are we going to be in Europe?' We're going to be in Europe until we win."
Asked whether he thinks U.S. troops will be in Iraq a half-century later, as they still are in Germany, Santorum said "potentially."
"Having a presence there as we have since the Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, is certainly not against the interests of America if in fact we're welcome to be there," he said.
Rick Santorum. Making sure you know he is insane, 24 hours a day.
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