It's happened again. Another foot, another mouth. This time it's Rep. John Boehner, the lead Republican in the House. What did he say? The death of thousands and wounding of tens of thousands was 'a small price to pay'. Seriously.
BLITZER: "Mr. Leader, here is the question. 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 and blood the Americans who are killed every month, how much longer do you think this commitment, this military commitment, is going to require?"A small price. Tell it to the families. Even other Republicans are not backing him. John McCain said:
With all due respect, every American wounded or sacrificed is the greatest possible price to pay,"And of course Democrats seized on Boehner's very poorly chosen words. Rather than apologize, Boehner's office said he was talking about the money but the question was how much longer do you think this commitment, this military commitment, is going to require?" And now, we're supposed to accept the sacrifice of thousands more. A small price indeed.
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1. This is disgusting...and conservatives paint us Democrats about not caring about our troops? We're the ones who want to bring the troops home safely and protect this country from real threats.
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Patrick at 10:54PM on Sep 14th 2007
2. That's better than W saying he's "playing for November", to hand off this Sh*t to the next guy and then blame him for losing by not sending more kids into the meat grinder. Have we forgotten the lessons of Vietnam and Afganistan (remember the Soviets, got their asses handed to them by a bunch of mountain tribesmen). If we stay 5 minutes or 5 years the end result will be civil war when we leave. We created a power vacuum when we ousted Saddam but had no plan to fill the void. What is happening there is our fault. 2000 years of history can't be erased by the meddling of one Presidential moron.... Geo
geo at 11:59PM on Sep 14th 2007
3. Another Rep. idiot speaks and shit rolls out. This moron,et al, and our corrupt admn. are all very dangerous to our citizens AND the planet earth. Come
on Nov. 2008!!!
mdembree at 3:45PM on Sep 25th 2007