Video: David Obey said what?
Update: Don Surber’s take:
“Running out of people to kill” is also called victory.
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y.
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The news that thousands of Iraqis have returned home to a safer capital in the wake of the surge seems to have deepened the derangement of some unhinged Dems. Searching for an explanation of the post-surge drop in violence, Democrat Rep. David Obey came up with a nutroots-certified doozy: “They [he means our American troops*..SEE UPDATE BELOW] are running out of people to kill.” Maybe he read it on the Daily Kos:
Amanda Carpenter at Townhall.com reports:
The man who controls the House purse strings to fund the war in Iraq said the President’s “surge” was showing recent signs of success because U.S. soldiers have “run out of people to kill.”
“One of the reason we’ve had incidents of violence, sectarian violence go down is because they are running out of people to kill,” said the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Rep. David Obey (D.-Wisc.) at a National Press Club luncheon Monday afternoon.
“They’ve killed so many in so many areas, that there are fewer opportunity targets, if you want to put it that way, for each side,” Obey said. “I welcome any reduction in the level in violence for whatever reasons it occurs, but I don’t think that tells us much for what the future is going to be.”
Obey’s remarks were prompted by a question that asked, “Some Republicans say the casualties are going down in Iraq, there seems to be signs the surge is working. Do you think that is true?”
I repeat: “One of the reason we’ve had incidents of violence, sectarian violence go down is because they are running out of people to kill.”
Way to support the troops, Rep. Obey.
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*UPDATE: Some commenters think Obey is talking about sectarian militias, as opposed to our troops. I think that’s a reasonable interpretation. However, the idea that “they,” whichever “they” Obey is referring to, have “run out of people to kill,” is still inexplicably bizarre.
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Sounds like sour grapes. The Democrats so badly wanted us and the Iraqis to be defeated by Al Qaeda in Iraq. They gleefully reported every soldier’s death in order to make us withdraw, so they could say we were defeated and humiliated.
Yet the surge has been a rousing success.
TB’n Crapweasel.
Gabe, nothing is so depressing to them as success.
Running out of dogs to run over he might also have added.
I have an image in my head of a five-year-old in an oversized suit, his little fists balled up, stamping is feet and screaming, “I won’t believe it! I won’t, I won’t, I WON’T!”
Honestly, dude…that ain’t funny. You’re calling our troops baby killers. I’ve lost two of my friends to this war, four have come home with life-altering injuries, and many others will never be the same, including my little brother. I don’t take kindly to Democrap mudslinging when it comes to our troops.
But will he be censured? Hell, no. That’d be politically incorrect.
Hi!
I’m sorry, I disagree with your interpretation. What I hear Obey say was that the Iraqis (Sunia/Shia) have done the killings not the US troops.
AlohaGuy,
I’ve noticed that too. There are almost no stories about the success of the surge in the media.
Now that they can’t happily report the deaths, there is story after story about the “cost” (as if they ever cared about fiscal responsibility) and desperate stories such as the “displacement of Iraqis.” Never any positive stories about our troops.
They have become so transparently anti-American.
Or is it that this Liberal Idiot In Chief’s way of saying the troops have gotten rid of most the bad guys?
Whatever, he’s still a weenie.
Bas-tard.
You’d think Obey would be happy that whomever is running out of Al Qaeda targets…oops, I forgot, there
are/isnever were al Qaeda in Iraq!I don’t remember any of these loons saying before the war that Saddam was running out of children to through into prison. Or running out of Kurd’s to gas. Or Shiites to through into shredders. Or…….
What a dope!
After listening to the video a few times, I think that there is a chance that Obey is referring to the sectarian militias running out of people to kill in ethnically cleansed enclaves.
This one’s for you Feebs:
Taze that fool.
I feel better now.
I can’t think of anything nice to say to about Rep. David Obey, so I just won’t say anything at all.
When is Obey up for re-election???
If that were true, then Obey would still be wrong. When there is “nobody left to kill” would mean “zero” population. Since when did either radical side need a reason to target anyone? Although murder/kidnappings happened with frequency, the majority of the homicides were/are due to indiscrimiate car/market/mosque bombings. There are still lots of cars, open-air markets, and mosques with people populating each, unless the videos I’ve seen lately have been fabricated…
Moron
How is a person such as Obey is in a position of goverment influence, being in the House??
What is wrong with this person(man would be to generous) on the Iraq war other than being a Demorat. Wasn’t he the same one that cussed at some Pinkos about the war funding?
And now this, what ever happened to the alien and sedition act??
Did you miss the (D)? That act does not apply to donks or the NYT.
Can we just put opie in a ravens uniform, the steelers would eat their young tonight.
Hmmm. Obey doesn’t seem to need anyone pointing out that he’s making a fool of himself.
He seems to be doing fine, all on his own…
The man is deranged. But we already knew he had “issues”. To think this silly simpleton has any say in our nations governance is very scary.
But if we were the Left, it really wouldn’t matter what he meant to say, when he said “they”. We could just say that he meant the troops, even if we knew that he didn’t! Isn’t that how they do it?
What a schmuck
This is just another instance of you people not following Obey’s logic… sarc/off
Obey must be getting used to chewing on his foot because it has not been out of his mouth for a long time … they just cannot handle the truth that we are starting to turn the corner in Iraq and that they are going to get to reap the rewards of their investment in defeat … we must make sure that fact remains in the eyes and ears of our fellow American voters … otherwise the Dems will take Hillary’s broom and sweep it under the rug …
One posted said that Obey might be commenting on the “insurgents” running out of targets, but I think he was, in fact, refering to our (and the Iraqi) troops.
But in a sense, he’s right.
I mean, when you kill or capture the bad guys, you start to run out of bad guys to kill or capture. Thus “running out of people” is – technically – a correct statement.
He represents the socialist state of Wisconsin. *shrug* They’re all insane up here.
I wonder if he will wind up being tonights “worst person in the world.”
I think we can officially change his name to “OH BOY” I said what? Do liberals even think before the say stupid stuff like that?
EXACTLY.
The bad guys/terrorists/insurgents/youths/etc. have been killing anyone and everyone. There are plenty of innocent lives left to kill, millions actually.
Obey had to mean our troops, HAD TO.
This man ought to loosen his wallet and hire a speechwriter.
Sayng the same thing but in a different light: “We have eliminated most of the trouble makers”
Did you notice all his blinking and tense voice?????????? lmao scripted
#26
we must make sure that fact remains in the eyes and ears of our fellow American voters
Bingo desert!
You all are reading David Obey’s remarks wrong; that was his inner hawk speaking. Davy boy was just disappointed.
After amassing all those troops and coming up with a plan that would work, there they were with all that ammo and next thing you know they are out of targets. Don’t you just hate it when a plan comes together?
Yeah, really, Sergeant Tim…
It’s scandalously late for me, so I haven’t read through the comment thread (Monday, Monday…); someone may have already made this point, but…
If the referent is “surge”, any claim that the jerk was referring to “militias” is about as weak an attempt at damage-control as I can conceive of-the “militias” have over 19 million people to kill. Methinks M’sieur Obey (aren’t they all French, at heart?) is disappointed.
As damage-control goes, bizarre indeed…but when you really think about it, what alternative did he have?
I am sitting in Iraq right now, and the fact of the matter is, we have run out of people to kill. In Anbar province, we ran out several months ago, actually. Now our focus is on civil affairs projects and such. I can’t see the vid, and don’t really care what this knucklehead has to say.
I’m thinkin it was Rosie in a David Obey costume.
Go Steelers!!
Armored Cav, stay safe.
God Bless you.
He and the rest of the treasonous left cannot bring themselves to acknowledge success or give credit to our troups. They are invested in defeat, do NOT support the troups, and absolutely make me sick!
What’s good for the country is not good for democraps and they know it.
God bless our men and women in uniform!
Put me in the camp that he’s not smearing the troops but he’s giving a moronic reason regarding the Sunni/Shia violence.
Running out of people to kill, David? Don’t be a douchebag – it’s very unbecoming of an elected Representative.
” Don’t be a douchebag – it’s very unbecoming of an elected Representative.”
Definition of a Democrat!
Obeywan Liberalnome is a twit of the first order. These prattling idiots just spew whatever comes into their sub-humanoid brain stem and this is the result.
“We are running out of people to kill. We are running out of heads to enjoy exploding.”
I wish the democrats were running out of stupid things to say. These people need to be out of power.
The Republicans need to get out of the corruption business and get back into building a strong America.
“running out of people to kill”
um, in what kind of bizarro world does that not mean closing in on victory in a war? (answer: liberal candyland)
man what a nincompoop…
He is clearly talking about the sectarian militias.
However, this is still blatant double talk from the Left. First the probelm is our soldiers dying. When that goes down it’s Iraqis dying. When that goes down it’s because they’ve run out of people to kill, but the real problem is actually the politics.
The Democrat position on Iraq gives me motion sickness. The only fixed point for them is the desperate desire for failure. They’ll weave all over the road like Ted Kennedy heading home from a party, comfortable that the path doesn’t matter just so long as they reach defeat.
The question directly referred to the
“surge” … which is a US military operation … so regardless of any semantics and parsing of the answer it was a response that is about the US forces in Iraq …
If I might be allowed to rephrase that…
“They weave all over the road like Ted Kennedy, searching for the bridge over the river Defeat.”
As a kid growing up in the early sixties, I can remember watching the nightly news with my parents, hearing the latest anti-American rant from the Soviet Union, Communist China or Cuba. Now I hear the same words coming from our own politicians. How sad.
When did we withdraw our troops? or did we lose?
Paraphrasing Wide World of Sports …
The Dems can’t enjoy “The Thrill of Victory” because they are too invested in “The Agony of Defeat” …
Welcome breg man-
Not only are you hearing these same comments from our illustriaous politicians, but I hear them almost daily at school from my profs.
GSP
Here’s a way to get the Democrats to acknowledge that the surge is working – give them some of the credit.
Republicans (and Bush/Cheney) could mention that the Democrats in Congress deserve some credit for the surge.
Something like,
Very nice corkie!
Thanks, 30 pieces of silver; I am 2/3 done, and it is going pretty fast.
swj719AWG, very nice.
#38 ArmoredCav LMAO Thanks
Bring in the Iranian’s!
Ok not really it’s a good thing they are running out of people to kill. I have heard some seriously off the wall explanation’s for success but this one takes stupidity to a new level.
I got tired of reading these comments very early on. Reverenddon and others are right in their interpretation (he’s referring to the bad guys), and you only discredit our cause when you are too lazy to actually read the quote.