I thought I was outraged over the puffed up squawking the GOP has done on the past two days over John Kerry and their claims that he owed the troops an apology, well… That outrage just raised a couple of levels tonight when I read about John Boehner’s defense of Rumsfeld (hat tip to Taylor) — bottom line Boehner blamed the generals on the ground — the troops for the mess in Iraq.

Watch it here:

Harry Reid hit back with this statement about Boehner’s blame game:

“John Boehner ought to be ashamed. He’s blaming our troops for failures in Iraq. If he wants to cast blame, he can start by looking in the mirror because he and his Congressional Republican colleagues have rubberstamped the Bush Administration’s failed policy for nearly four years. Our troops in Iraq have performed bravely. It’s political leaders like Congressman Boehner and Donald Rumsfeld, who have failed. I expect President Bush and Congressional Republicans, who demanded John Kerry apologize, hold their own party’s majority leader to a much higher standard. There’s no spinning his disparaging comments. He made them. He needs to apologize.”

Tim Grieve has more on the War Room:

Boehner’s spokesman tells the Hotline that Democrats are “quickly squandering any and all credibility by even attempting to equate Mr. Boehner’s comments with criticism of anyone in the military.” He’s got a point there: You can’t really “equate” Boehner’s comments with “criticism of anyone in the military” because they are criticism of people in the military.

Demand an apology from John Boehner.

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