Dave Obey Slams The Washington Post

Dave Obey Attack The Washington Post

   The paper this morning had another one of it's propaganda, lie filled editorials in it and it seems that the falsehoods pissed Dave Obey off enough to say something about it on the House floor today. Mr. Obey was not pleasant, to say the least, but the man spoke the truth.

 

   Here is a partial transcript provided by TPM

Let me submit to you the problem we have today is not that we didn't listen enough to people like The Washington Post. It's that we listened too much. They endorsed going to war in the first place. They helped drive the drumbeat that drove almost two-thirds of the people in this chamber to vote for that misbegotten, stupid, ill-advised war that has destroyed our influence over a third of the world. So I make no apology if the moral sensibilities of some people on this floor, or the editorial writers of The Washington Post, are offended because they don't like the specific language contained in our benchmarks or in our timelines.

What matters in the end is not what the specific language is. What matters is whether or not we produce a product today that puts pressure on this Administration and sends a message to Iraq, to the Iraqi politicians that we're going to end the permanent long-term dead end babysitting service. That's what we're trying to do. And if The Washington Post is offended about the way we do it, that's just too bad.

 

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