The compassionate omelet-maker
Q: .... 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.
(via Talking Points Memo)
If you're the omelet-maker, who gives a damn about the eggs? 4000 dead American soldiers, a million or so dead Iraqis, or the approximately 3500 civilians who were actually killed by Al Qaeda and not by the unaffiliated resistance group in Iraq that Boehner (E-Mordor) is exploiting in this horrific little snippet -- none of them are important compared to the delicious gravy-soaked dinner that this horrible little apparachik is helping to prepare for the friends and relations of the B*sh junta.
"Investment", my ass. Even if this ghastly atrocity of unprovoked aggressive warfare was a real defensive war instead of the sociopathic snuff-film fantasy of a justly-hated dictatorship, it wouldn't be a goddamn "investment." It's a fucking sacrifice; those poor doomed soldiers and civilians have died so that the bloated plutocrats and depraved fundamentalist "Christians" who control the Evil Party can continue to live their lives of Caliguaesque decadence in the style they've grown accustomed to since the goddamn neoliberals and neoconservatives infected the public debate.
(And the Democrats are actually sitting down at the table with these inhuman scum? Oy.)
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I love that phrase, “making success.” We’re making success that’s so flabby it needs to be “firmed up”! What a Boner.