Boehner's "Small Price"
Just yesterday on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked John Boehner, the leader of the GOP in the House, this question (video on Horse's Mouth):
"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?"
And Mr. Boehner responded:
"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."
What a stunningly cavalier statement about the lives of the young men and women who serve our country.
Whether you support or oppose the Bush escalation, no American should ever for even a moment think the cost of war is small.
A single life is a large price to pay for any endeavor. Sometimes, in our national interest, we choose to pay that awful price, but we must always make sure that the policy is worthy of it.
Visit our wounded warriors at Walter Reed hospital and ask whether the price they paid was small. Talk to the mothers, fathers, husbands and wives of those who have been killed and ask them to measure the price of war. Young lives stopped short, children who won't have a mother or father there as they grow up, when they graduate, when they get married -- that loss is many things, but it is not small.
Where is Representative Boehner's apology? And where is an Iraq policy equal to our soldiers' tremedous sacrifice?
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Un. be. lieveable. He's a complete waste, fake tan and all.
Boehner is a callous piece of excrement, but what will YOU do to stop the rot in American government which he stands for, Sen. Kerry? Impeachment MUST go back on the table, using a bigger table if necessary. The basis of the Iraq invasion MUST be re-thought and apologized for. An appalling mistake was made, and I can hardly imagine an apology which could remotely approach adequacy in this situation. But somebody in government has to try, even though it looks as if our bravest and best are clearly NOT in government at the present time. In fact, I would say there is at present a truly remarkable degree of cowardice in the one place where courage is truly essential.
you are all powerful and all knowing
Boehner, what no more tears?
Congressman Boehner, Saddam was not worth the life of one American woman or man.
Your concept of a small price must include no dead children of your own.
Your party is the party of money and nothing else.
Boener, you are an arrogant opaque lensed prick. How dare you mouth such detached nonsense. Your inability to grasp reality and express any notion of understanding the imprint of your stupid words is a monument to your general uselessness. I know your type, you always get along on Bullshit! When you are uncovered, it is typical of your ilk to move on to a new stupid claim.
Sorry Senator Kerry, I grabbed your forum to get a message to this tragic excuse for a Representative, but I doubt you mind.
Why aren't the democrats kicking Rep. Boehner's(
Remember, Remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot
it's not terror, it's oil. cheney had the oil field coordinate mapped out pre-war. we're building a huge green zone. to me, it's our 51st st. bush and his oil cronies and boehner basically say soldier's lives are less important than King Oil.
What is equally shocking is that Blitzer did not nail Boner for his comments.
Blitzer normally has his head so far up celebrities' asses, that he cannot see any reality.
When we look back on the history of this conflict, we must make sure we blame Blitzer and the spineless punditocracy for the war.
Right, I am guessing Boner will apologize when hell freezes over! Just another republican pig who doesn't have any invested interest in this war other than to do what the republican line dictates.
Callous is as callous does. The right wing of the Republican Party is concerned about the unborn, the pre-born and the ought-to-be-born, but they consider a "small price" is paid for the laying down of lives of American soldiers, American contractors, coalition soldiers and Iraqis. $22M is a crippling price to pay for domestic programs, but $22 Billion, or even $22 Trillion, seems 'manageable' to pay for Little Bush to strut around as a wartime president.
Forwarding a reactionary neo-con agenda is worth the price of Americans living in perpetual fear, of inroads into our private lives, our phone conversations and our bodies.
I am confident that a Kerry presidency would have never brought us to these Killing Fields, but John Kerry has said, "No" to a 2008 presidential run.
It is time for a statesman in the White House. Time for planning and fact-checking. Time for co-operation. Time for diplomacy, reason and sanity. It is time for Al Gore to announce his candidacy. He is the only possible candidate who has the winning combination. EXPERIENCE: (8 years as U.S. Representative, 8 years as U.S. Senator, 8 years as U.S. Vice President -- that means 8 years with the (nearest thing we can have) of an incumbent. CHANGE: A return to our Constitution, Principles and American identities through changing the cynical practices of the past six years, and the business-as-usual corruption of Republican excesses. VISION: For decades, a one-man-advocate for the problems of Global Warming & Climate Change that has put those in First Place in the hearts and minds of Americans.
AL Gore. The right man for these times. The right man for America's future.
Does Boehner have children fighting in Iraq for his noble cause? I doubt it.
Keith Olbermann needs to make Boehner the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD. I'm going to suggest it...WRITE KEITH NOW!
This Tobacco company whore needs to spend 6 months patrolling the streets of Baghdad with nothing but a carton of Marlboro cigarettes to protect him.
Senator Kerry...
I would love to see the same statement made if the same kind of Military that brought your generation in.....THE DRAFT was reinstated today. The wailing would be quite heavy on both sides of the aisle; I'm afraid.
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