(h/t Scarce for video)
TPM captured this video from yesterday’s Situation Room on CNN, where Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner makes the stunning statement that the blood of American troops in Iraq is a “small price” to pay for the long term goals in the Middle East. I can assure the Republican Congressman, the tens of thousands of family members whose loved ones have spilled their blood in Iraq, whether dead or horrifically wounded in this tragedy, would not agree with that assessment — and it’s a safe bet the millions of Iraqis who have watched their family members being slaughtered and their country demolished would take exception as well.
John Kerry responds to Boehner’s incredibly callous statement.
UPDATE: Howard Dean demands an apology from Boehner
Filed Under: CNN, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Republican Party, Right Wing Stupidity, Supporting our Troops, The House, The Situation Room/Wolf Blitzer
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I’ll say it first: His own blood or that of his kin is, of course, way too large a price to pay. Or that of the 5 Romney brothers. Etc.
take a look at his “Small Price”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMACzBomDK4
The Repubs are really showing their true colors now.
Threaten Bush’s vanity war, and they’re ready to throw any soldier they can find under the bus.
So much for the party that “supports the troops.”
So is he going to sacrifice HIS children?
How about all those College Republicans? Are THEY going to throw themselves on their swords for their leader’s glorious legacy?
Of course not, because neocons, be they rich politicians or dumb-ass rednecks, all have one thing in common: they are puss*es who like to talk tough but run and hide when the fight breaks out.
This confirms what I have always suspected, rhetoric aside, the Neocons regard the troops as disposable peasants.
put this one side by side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1UABBe1v4
rasta @ 5:
The Tears of a Clown.
Bush Bites @ 3:
I agree, except that the “throwing under the bus” analogy doesn’t result in the wholesale slaughter of people.
I could make a personal remark about this obscene man named John Boehner, but won’t. We are paying a staggering price, both in terms of bloodshed and taxpayer money…so staggering that few of us truly comprehend the enormity of it all.
Iraq is the largest heist in the history of the United States.
Nobody I ever voted for has never said anything this stupid, whoever voted for this schmuck should think about what he will lose in this war vs what his voter will lose, sons and grandsons.
Sam @ 8:
Whoever voted for this pr*ck should be drafted and sent into combat in Iraq.
They don’t give a shit what they say now. The 2008 election (IF there is one) is OVER.
The landslide will be so big, that the Republicans will not recover for 20 years. AND if they try to steal the election again, the outcry over the result will be so big that the country will be thrown into crisis.
A career ender? Dunno, ought to be… But given the troglodytes who voted for Boehner in the first place….. Hard to tell anymore…. With people like this guy runnin things, hard to tell where where any of us are going to end up these days……Other than this cliff Bush has driven the nation off of.. Off into the bottom of some deep dark chasm with craggy rocks at bottom………JD
test….Can I post at all???? JD
I sent in a link to a news article yesterday in which the soldiers on the front in Iraq invited the Congress to come over like the press and be embedded with them on the lines. It would make a great piece to have on here, but the C&L people apparently didn’t think it worthy.
Too bad, I’m sure there would have been many who would want to comment on such an article.
Here is the link to that story on CNN
Rep Boner, meet Madeleine “500,000 Iraqi kids dying is ok” Albright.
You two will make a lovely couple-IN HELL.
More than one million people have been slaughtered so far. I believe at least a million more will be slaughtered before we’re done. If the plan to stay until the oil is gone works out, then maybe ten million people will die as Iraq is emptied through carnage and exodus.
And we’ll leave behind millions of tons of depleted uranium in order to make Iraq a polluted and dangerous place for billions of years. People, animals and plants will suffer horrible mutations from the chemical damage alone, that this heavy metal does to DNA.
I don’t know what the prize will be for winning, but I can’t think of one that makes all of this worth it.
What is the prize we get for completely destroying a nation?
miss_kitty @ 12:
There isn’t a rung in hell low enough for these contemptible swine.
Weaseldog @ 13:
Higher Oil prices.
He has a point, actually. We killed 40,000+ Iraqi soldiers in the last three days of the First Gulf War. Bombed ‘em to death from miles away when they were retreating from Kuwait. I think the corresponding Coalition casualties were something like 30.
Given the death we’ve been dealing in the region, a couple thousand lives really is a small price to pay.
Weaseldog @ 15:
We get the pleasure of GW Bush diddling away in Texas with his millions, and using his government pension for cab and tip money.
Boehner should resign immediately.
But before that, he should be forced to meet with, and apologize to, the families of kids from his state that have been killed in Iraq. Those families can decide what to do to him.
scarlet p. @ 18:
?????
Ignominious_Bush @ 21:
One thing that really hit home during the Generals hearings this week was the glee that the majority of rethug reps and The Party of Joe seemed to express at the prospect of extending the war indefinately.
And this guy has the gall to “weep’ for the soldiers then say this ? Is it any wonder why politicians are so hated.
Also…they always use the saying blood and treasure now,,,,we see the blood but what exactly is the treasure ?
jmike @ 20:
He should enlist. It’s a small price to pay for success in Iraq.
OK, Boehner to ante up.
A gallon should do the trick.
patty @ 2:
thanks patty
powerful video
that might be the single dumbest thing i’ve ever heard a politician say.
We are all sleep walking through another shower of Chicken Hawk War Mongering bullshit: Wake up!.
Remember when the MSM got suckered into pushing the WMD Iraq war excuse.
Well folks; The MSM have not learned a damn thing. They are still as gullible as ever. They are reporting that Bush has accepted a thirty thousand troop reduction in Iraq, as recommended by Petraeus. That is total bullshit on all counts. Here is the truth.
Petraeus/Bush are not agreeing to that. They both say that they will need the Surge level in order to reduce the violence in Iraq, and if that succeeds, then they will reduce the Surge figures to 130,000. In other words, go back to the level that was there before the 2006 elections. Now here is what the MSM, and frankly most of the Blogs, are missing. Petraeus and Bush are both saying that if the Surge does not work, then they will not withdraw the 30,000. In other words, they are saying: If the Surge fails, then we are going to keep the full Surge level of Troops in Iraq. That is what they are saying.
Wake the hell up, and shout the real truth from the roof tops.
Is it any surprise he is so popular with his Party. I mean…with a name like “Boe..Ner”..guys like Craig must be creaming in the Congressional Cloak room when he walks by.
Kudos to Boehner for finally openly stating what we known all along. Republicans don’t care about anyone but themselves and their ‘base’, aka rich people. Republicans view themselves as the rightful ruling elite and the rest of us are good for little more than cannon fodder. I hope whoever runs against Boehner in 2008 has the smarts to play that to his district.
If a Democratic politician had said that, the Repugs would be calling for his resignation by now.
Bush Bites @ 3:
If it’s such a SMALL PRICE TO PAY, then why doesn’t he FUCKING GO OVER THERE, with his whole ROTTEN FAMILY, and spill some of THEIR blood… (remember, it’s a SMALL PRICE TO PAY).
What an asshole. Unfrickin’ believable.
Just how much $$$$$$$$$$ is Mr. John Boehner making on his war profiteering stock portfolio anyway???????
even if a family is staunchly pro-war, they would never say the loss of, or injury to, their loved one was a “small price”. the streak of inhumanity in so many pols boggles the rational and compassionate mind. my brother is off for his third tour in a few months. i want to put my fist through a wall knowing pr*cks like Boehner have even a millileter of power in d.c. regarding the perpetuation of this murderous debacle.
blood @ 27:
Yeah…but there have been others…
“We will be greeted as liberators”.
“Saddam has ties to Al Quada.”
“Saddam has weapons of mass destruction.”
“mushroom clouds”
“6 months”
“the war will be funded from the oil revenues”
This one however is reprehensible. Why OH WHY does this Boener hate the troops?
“The long term goals for the Middle East” - which are… what?
Smack_dab @ 30:
100% correct. Fox would be having a Right Wing wackoff fest they’d be so excited.
Rusty Shackleford @ 36:
Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money.
Stay the course.
This story has legs. Also, it demonstrates how easy it is to play the role of an indignant patriot an abuse that Kerry suffered in the hands of the Republicans many times over. The next ¨small price¨, hopefully is when they Ohioan´s BURY BOEHMER in a Democratic landside election in that state.
And Wolf never even thought of calling him on it Nothing but a tomato can in a suit
No Senator. The sacrificial offering of several members of congress on the Altar of Pragmatism would be a small price to pay.
Pardon my insensitive pragmatism.
Here’s the actual statement:
I think that all Rep. Boehner heard Wolf Blitzer say was “$2-3 billion a week”, not the “loss in blood”. Because, we all know that Congress supports the troops.
They gave up on “stay the course.”
Now it’s “Stay the discourse” — just talk about leaving until Bush walks away from the disaster.
#44 sarcasm alert!!
30,000 of our own maimed or killed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis maimed or killed. Millions of Iraqis driven from their country. Small price….What a boner.
This guy is a disgusting hack. “small price to pay”..indeed. Wonder if the propaganda network will beat this statement to death as it’s done over and over to Democrats?
Talk long enough you Nazi’s and the truth will eventually slip out. What a bunch of f*cking morons.
Hold on America…..the draft is coming….and watch the public wake up and scream when they have a Democratic President trying to close this disgusting mess. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this is the idea behind keeping this mess going…so the Democrats can be made to look inept and at a loss.
Hitler is alive and well.
Bookmark this video and send the link as a reply to all the Christo-Republican “don’t vote for Clinton-Obama” chain email blasts you’ll inevitably get from your less enlightened, mouth breathing relatives in the 2008 election year. If this doesn’t shut them up, what will?
Rollo Tomassi @ 49: