Tell It to Omar Mora’s Mom

Posted by Mary Mancini on September 14, 2007 under Uncategorized |

Big controversy brewing over comments made this week by GOP House Leader John Boehner. During a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer he said, “the investment that we’re making today [in Iraq] will be a small price if we’re able to stop al-Qaida here, if we’re able to stabilize the Middle East.”

Perhaps Congressman Boehner doesn’t really understand the definition of “small price.” For clarification he should ask Mrs. Mora who lost her son, Omar, this week. Then maybe he can move on to the families of the other 3779 servicemen and women killed during this bloody thing. And while he’s at it, he can ask the millions of killed and displaced Iraqis if they think losing their lives, livelihoods, homes, and families are a “small price.” Then he can finish by asking the American people, a large majority of whom are against continuing with this horrible mess and could have come up with a better use for the half a trillion we’ve spent on this thing so far.

Boehner’s “by any means necessary” attitude is simplistic, short-sighted, insulting, and, as John Kerry labeled it, “stunningly cavalier.” Unless the “we’re” he referred to includes him or a member of his family what are doing some actual fighting in Iraq, he needs to rethink his trivialization of the “price” being paid.