Rep. Boehner appeared on Stephanopoulos’s show and said this:
Let’s not take the problems in Iraq, the tough fight that we’re in there and blame it on anyone. We’re in a tough fight. Al Qaeda is doing everything they can to disrupt our efforts in Iraq, to disrupt the new government, creating more violence than anyone can imagine and defeating al Qaeda there is important, because if we were to pull out before we win, we will embolden every terrorist in every corner of the world and then instead of fighting them in Iraq, we’ll be fighting them on every street in America.
This was said with a straight face. Anyone with an IQ over 80 and integrity can see that Rep. Boehner is trying to rename the civil war in Iraq as a fight against al Qaeda. There may be some terrorists there, but the sectarian violence that is happening in Iraq far surpasses any al Qaeda action.
I doubt that the Madhi Army is going to be fighting in the streets of Topeka any time soon.
See the video here.