Democrat admits we are "running out of people to kill" in Iraq

Amanda Carpenter:

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?”

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Obey has swerved into one definition of victory. Not that he meant to. He still thinks the war is interfering with his real priorities of spending more money to buy votes from Democrat constituencies. If you read the rest of what he said, it is clear that he is not keen on winning the war. You almost get the feeling that he thinks killing the enemy is a bad thing.