Editorial: Cheap Whore Tim Ryan Exposes Himself

Lousy leader Barack Obama wants someone else to blame for the shutdown.  His whores come running out to do his bidding including former actress Mia Farrow who's career is now listed in the dictionary under "tawdry."  But Mia was far from last week's worst offender.

That would be US House Representative Tim Ryan.


Last week, for those who missed it, saw the end of September.  Which meant a monthly death toll in Iraq.   Iraq Body Count noted the death toll for September from violence is 1220.  UNAMI issued  their count, "According to casualty figures released today by UNAMI, a total of 979 Iraqis were killed and another 2,133 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence in September."  AFP coffered their count in a Tweet:
      

W.G. Dunlop ‏@wgdunlop 3h

Sept. the deadliest month for Iraq recorded by @AFP this year, with 880 killed; over 4,700 dead in violence in 2013 http://u.afp.com/JSL 

And Margaret Griffis (Antiwar.com) reported, "Using numbers from various sources, Antiwar.com compiled a total of 1,271 deaths, up slightly from last month and down from July. In September 2012, Antiwar.com counted 444 dead and 1,233 wounded. This difference dramatically underscores how much attacks have increased this year."




In the face of that continued death and destruction, Tim Ryan attempted to show boat on the floor of Congress declaring:


I was against the Iraq War!  The Iraq War was unaffordable! The Iraq War was unpopular! 58% of the American people were against the Iraq War!  Democrats didn't shut down the government! Use the political process!  Which we did and won the House back in '06 and won the presidency in '08 and we wound down the Iraqi War!


C.I. quickly noted that Ryan's 'logic' was faulty and all Ryan was confessing to was going along with a criminal war when he could have led a shutdown to stop the war.  Ruth followed up by pointing out that while Ryan wasn't in Congress in 2002, when the authorization for war was voted on, he did, in 2004, vote for Henry Hyde's measure praising the Iraq War and the overthrowing of Saddam Hussein. 

That really doesn't sound like 'against the war.'

And the reason for that?

He wasn't against the Iraq War.  Ava and C.I. spoke to members of Congress and former members of Congress.  Tim Ryan didn't do a damn thing to end the Iraq War.

He didn't even join the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus.   The Caucus was created in June 2005.  It would eventually have 73 members.  Tim Ryan was not one of them.  He never chose to join the Out of Iraq Caucus.

You can see him here whining, in 2007,  that Bully Boy Bush did not send enough troops into Iraq.  He'll go on to reject the 'surge.'  That was the Democratic Party position.  He didn't call for troops out, he just lodged a complaint against the 'surge.'  He had a lot of complaints about the way the war was carried out -- the centrist, homophobic and sexist member of Congress just didn't have any opposition to the war itself.



But didn't he screech, scream and shriek on the floor of Congress last week pretending otherwise?