Delegates meet tonight to hear sheriff candidates

Tonight the Republican sheriff candidates will be speaking to those of us who were elected as delegates last Monday evening. I look forward to hearing what they have to say. I have done a bit of research and as of now there are two candidates I am ruling out.

In researching one of the candidates I found that he had spent 3 years in Iraq training the new Iraqi police force. This candidate spoke on March 22nd 2007 at the local Rotary Club about his time in Iraq. I do realize that his views on us being in Iraq has very little to do with the local sheriff race, but the quote below came as quite a kick in the teeth.

Below is the exact quote I got from the speech he gave at the Rotary Club. This quote was given at the end of the speech during the question answer time. He was answering a question about the working relationship he had with the Iraqi people, and at the end of his answer began to tail off into another subject. At around the 30:30 mark this is what he said:

What? I really could spend way to much time unpacking all the implications of this kind of justification for us being there, but all I am going to say is this. When we invaded Iraq, which by the way was one of the few Arab countries where being a Christian was still legal, there were 1.2 million Christians living in Iraq. Today there are less than 600,000.