GOP Leader Boehner: If We Defeat Al Qaeda, "We" Will Have Paid "A Small Price" In Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

Okay, if this isn't portrayed as a major gaffe, with wall-to-wall condemnations from the pundits, it'll be stunning. (Editor's note: That was meant to be bitterly ironic.)

I've just received some advance excerpts of an interview CNN's Wolf Blitzer has done with GOP House leader John Boehner. It's set to air this afternoon. Take a look at this chunk:

BLITZER: How much longer will U.S. taxpayers have to shell out $2 billion a week or $3 billion a week as some now are suggesting the cost is going to endure? The loss in blood, the Americans who are killed every month, how much longer do you think this commitment, this military commitment is going to require?

BOEHNER: I think General Petraeus outlined it pretty clearly. We’re making success. We need to firm up those successes. We need to continue our effort here because, Wolf, long term, the investment that we’re making today will be a small price if we’re able to stop al Qaeda here, if we’re able to stabilize the Middle East, it’s not only going to be a small price for the near future, but think about the future for our kids and their kids.

The investment that "we" are making will be a "small price," eh? How reassuring. This is an obvious point, but it bears making again, anyway: It's really uncanny how often those who aren't sacrificing anything for the Iraq war, aside for perhaps their health in the polls, are willing to...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/09/gop_leader_boeh.php

BONEHEAD!

[redqueen]

1. HUH? How does he go from stopping Al Qaeda in Iraq to stabilizing the ME?

Frickin idiot.

[Mythsaje]

2. File this under

People who don't know what they're talking about.

[Cha]

5. Cross-filed with republicons who

cnn gets on to act out with them that they know what they're talking about.

[spanone]

3. so now al qaeda is headquartered in iraq?

he's such a cheap shill

[Disturbed]

6. All the relatives & friends of Americans & Iraqis who have been

killed &/or maimed will surely agree with this, eh?

[chelsea0011]

4. He needs to issue an apology

Anytime a Repuke speaks, I will request an apology.

[indepat]

7. In the long term, the investment we are making today will have bankrupted the nation: this

"investment" was made for oil, not for the American people, but mostly for the benefit of four large oil companies, and hegemony in the Region, not to fight al Qaeda, a fight that was largely abandoned to get on with the pre-existing PNAC agenda by invading and occupying Iraq. It is a shame GOP House leader Boehner is so ignorant of this truth or so disturbingly disingenuous.

[redqueen]

10. Don't forget the numerous war profiteers!

KBR, Blackwater, other mercenaries, weapons manufacturers, etc.

:bounce:

[babylonsister]

8. Does he have any kids he can donate to the cause? nt

[RamboLiberal]

11. He has two daughters

In addition, Boehner's daughter, Tricia, works for General Revenue Corp., a loan collection company owned by Sallie Mae.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-05-boehner-fundraising_x.htm

Don't know age of Lindsay his other daughter - but certainly Tricia is of age to enlist.

[Cha]

9. And IF we

don't..how much BIGGER the price than already paid?

I don't believe for one second that that's even why buSHITS are staying in Iraq..I'm just tearing into his little feel-good rhetoric.

[TwilightGardener]

12. "A small price"? Stunning. I guess it's small to him. Probably not

small to those who have lost limbs, eyesight, brain function. Or to those who gave everything and are now in coffins. Or to their families, and caretakers. Unbelievable. This man should not be in Congress.

[Yavin4]

13. How Will We Know When Al Qaeda Gives Up?

When they're matematically eliminated from the playoffs?

[PsN2Wind]

14. Didn't Boner

wash out of the military while in boot camp? Bad back or some such bullshit.

[0rganism]

15. if wishes were horses...

Let's add this one to the ever-growing list of "unlikely hypotheticals used by unscrupulous politicians to rationalize unsound policies", just for starters.