Kerry on Boehner’s “Small Price”
by Pamela LeaveyJohn Kerry responded to today to Rep. John Boehner’s “stunningly cavalier” response to the pointed question asked yesterday on CNN by Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer asked Boehner: “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 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.”
Kerry’s slammed Boehner for his “cavalier” statment and demands an apology:
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?
Call Boehner’s office: 202-225-6205. Demand an apology.
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I just think that Kerry is much more effective when he doesn’t pull any punches, like this. I’m not sure he does either himself or the country a favor when he tries to be “temperate” just for the sake of being temperate. There is no “polite discourse” here, nor should there have been.
Darrell,
Kerry certainly does seem liberated these days, and it’s thrilling to watch. It feels even like he’s thrilled, too.
You tell ‘em Kerry. Boehner’s statement is more than just insensitive adn stupid, it shows a downright bloodthistyness (if that’s the right word) on the part of Boehner.
I swear there are times I think that some of these righties sit around and think to themselves “what can I say that will be so inflammatory it will shock, awe, and anger even the most jaded of Americans?” Boehner certainly has done that.