Last month, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the lives of U.S. troops were a small price to pay in the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its intervention in the Iraqi civil war:
Stark was wrong, of course, troops aren’t dying for the president’s amusement. The reality is much worse. They are dying so that Bush and his cronies can control Iraq’s oil.
BLITZER: Mr. Leader, here’s 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 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.
Boehner has never apologized, nor did the Democrats attempt to censure him for denigrating the sacrifice of American soldiers.
Yesterday, however, Boehner led the charge to censure Rep. Pete Stark over these comments:
First of all, I’m just amazed that they can’t figure out — the Republicans are worried that we can’t pay for insuring an additional ten million children. They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you gonna get that money? You gonna tell us lies, like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to fund the war? You don’t have the money to fund the war or children, but you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people, if we could get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.
Stark was wrong, of course, troops aren’t dying for the president’s amusement. The reality is much worse. They are dying so that Bush and his cronies can control Iraq’s oil.
Yes, it’s true. It is all about the oil. And since it is, that explains why there’s no “exit strategy”. Apparently we won’t leave until the oil is mostly gone. There is an alternative to all this but it would require a radically different lifestyle for Americans, a possibility we apparently aren’t willing to explore.
The death of America’s son’s and daughter’s is hardly a small price to pay. Obviously it was’nt one of Boehner’s kids who died over there. If one of my kid’s died in Iraq fighting this idiotic war I’d be a friggin crazy women. And what about the million plus dead Iraqi civillians? Life obviously does’nt hold much value for this guy,(but I’ll bet that his own life seems pretty valuable to him though) And if this guy is really so concered about the welfare of America’s future kid’s then why is he so eager to hand them a war bill that will probably take their entire lives to pay off?