This is an actual quote.
Stunned. Simply stunned that anyone, regardless of ideology, could say anything so utterly callous.
Enter the neo-cons.
Think Progress has posted an except of an interview with host Chris Mathews and right-wing commentator Frank Gaffney where Gaffney actually makes this claim about our soldiers being sent to war:
MATTHEWS: You guys sold the war as a nuclear threat to the United States. A nuclear weapon was going to be delivered by a nuclear delivery device. It was going to take the weapon and drop it here. You sold every trick you could to get us into this war. Now you’re back pedaling. And I do find it astounding. The Vice President of the United States is —
GAFFNEY: How do you feel, Chris?
MATTHEWS: This is how I feel. Four thousand people are dead because of how you feel. And Frank, you’re wrong about this because you don’t even seem to care your facts were wrong.
GAFFNEY: Chris, there were —
MATTHEWS: You admit your facts were wrong and it doesn’t bother you.
GAFFNEY: May I state my position rather than you stating it? May I do that? My position is that it’s regrettable that any Americans died. It is regrettable that they had to die, but I believe they had to die"
I'm to stunned that anyone could even conceive of a thought so infantile. I can't be angry, yet I don't pity this man in the slightest. I wonder if he would have the guts to say that to the soldier's spouses, to their kids, to their friends. I also wonder when the newspapers and radio stations who carry this jerk will take responsibity and show this sad excuse for a human being the door. When will people say enough is enough?