Decreasing violence in Iraq likely due to depopulation:
If violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents “are running out of people to kill,†House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) said Monday.
“There are fewer targets of opportunity,†Obey said in a speech to the National Press Club.
As the House’s top appropriator, Obey has his hands on the nation’s purse strings, giving him a significant say on the war in Iraq.
In his speech Monday, he stuck by his pledge not to approve any more money for the war until President Bush changes course on Iraq. He also offered a spirited defense of a new surtax to pay for the Iraq war, admitting that he knew it wouldn’t pass when he offered his support for the plan. But he said it highlighted the fact that Bush has loaded the cost of the war onto the national debt while pushing tax cuts tilted to the wealthy.
The surtax plan, which is backed by Reps. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and James McGovern (D-Mass) . . .
That pretty much says it all, don’t you think? Well, I can toss this in, too.
Are you getting your fair share of pork?
Comment by Veeshir on 11/6 @ 8:06 am #
When do they get called on saying such crap? I mean, your average Dem can say anything their little minds can conjure up to demean America, Bush and our military, true or not, plausible or not, hate-filled or more hate-filled, and they never get called on it.
Brit Hume is just about the only one who talks about this kind of stuff and I’m pretty sure that’s because either he or some of his staff read the same blogs I do (Hey Brit!).
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 8:15 am #
Veeshir - They are just speaking TRUTH TO POWER or some kind of gibberish like that. I cannot even imagine the faux-outrage that would be generated if a Republican said something like this.
Comment by Kirk on 11/6 @ 8:27 am #
Yep, Baghdad is completely out of civilians to blow up!
Comment by Major John on 11/6 @ 8:53 am #
Well shucks, if there isn’t anybody left in Iraq - does this mean I won’t be mobilizing, uh, Thursday to go train the IA, Rep. Obey?
Comment by daleyrocks on 11/6 @ 9:04 am #
I don’t know WTF Obey is talking about. The pictures I see still have plenty of women and children in them.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 9:05 am #
AP - Obey declared Iraq free of civilians. Women, children, and minorities hardest hit.
Comment by Andrew on 11/6 @ 9:41 am #
“while pushing tax cuts tilted to the wealthy.” is the new “women, children, and minorities hardest hit.” There’s literally no lefty boilerplate that doesn’t include it somewhere.
Comment by Ric Locke on 11/6 @ 10:19 am #
Gotta admit that this one’s choice, but in the strenuous effort being exerted to Preserve the Narrative (which is apparently making Bill Keller crazy) I still think the lament for loss of income of morgue-bound taxi drivers takes the prize.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by tee bee on 11/6 @ 10:38 am #
You think we have it bad in the cheese state with our reps? Best avoid our roads, we’re losing the surge.
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/6 @ 11:05 am #
tee bee–
Here’s a link supporting Surge.
Comment by Moron Pundit on 11/6 @ 11:26 am #
Nothing makes me more happy to live in Wisconsin than the Obey and Feingold.
Well, maybe this.
Yeah. We’ve got a Cheese Castle.
Comment by McGehee on 11/6 @ 11:52 am #
Help us, Obey-Wun Screwedupboy, you’re our only hope!
Comment by Karl on 11/6 @ 3:31 pm #
Obey needs to catch up on the news:
I s’pose Obey could claim he can’t believe the Associated Press, but that’s more my gig.