He says this war goes all the way back to the Iran hostage crisis of 1979.
I disagree. There are those who say it really began with the Crusades, or with Muhammed. I say it goes all the way back to Tiglathpileser, the Assyrian king who attacked Israel in ~740 B.C.
Beat that, Mr. Shortsighted House Minority Leader. 
I think the root cause was competition between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Oh yeah? I think it began when the first two hydrogen atoms bumped into each other.
Beat THAT!
In the Beginning, was the Word
And the Bird was the Word
pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooooooo-Mao-Mao, pa-pa ooooo Mao Mao Mao…
So you’re saying it’s China’s fault?
The Big Bang was acutally a powerful IED made in Iran. That’s what unnamed briefers locked in a small room several thousand miles away told me, so you know it must be true.
The echo of the Big Bang still sounds in Iraq…
Nah, just kidding around, it was clearly all Jimmy Carter’s fault.
Y’know, I can’t see Brother Jimmy’s name anymore without hearing, “He’s history’s greatest monster!” 
But the Iranian hostage crisis – the whole Iranian Revolution – resulted ultimately from Operation Ajax. So we did start it.
Its all the Europeans fault…
-XT
Good Lord! It’s truly frightening that he conflates the Iran hostage-takers with Lebanese factions in the 1980’s & al-Qaeda. I wonder how much of this sort of “they’re all the same” thinking there is in the corridors of power in Washington, maybe even the DoD. And how much there is in Iraq: “This started when Rome invaded Parthia on a Wednesday 400 years before the Hegira…”
From Boehner? I expected nothing less.
Well, we have records of conflicts between the Sumerians (now Southern Iraq) and the Elamites (in adjacent Southwestern Iran) dating back to before 2000 BC.
Nah, it was all Abraham’s fault.
We get blamed for everything else :dubious:
Hadn’t even thought about blaming the Jews! But, now that you mention it…
Can’t this somehow be blamed on Bill Clinton?
Perhaps more to the point of explaining the crazy shenanagins of house republicans:
To take the OP seriously, here’s what’s going on (I actually listened to the whole audio clip). Boehner is talking about acts of Islamic terrorism against the US. He lists all the acts of Islamic terrorism starting with the taking of US Hostages in Iran.
Now, I don’t know if that qualifies as terrorism, but let’s say it does (for the sake of argument). Next, I don’t know if that was the first act of terrorism by Islamic religious fanatics against the US, so I’ll wait until Tamerlane or someone can clarify that. But, and this is where Boehner makes his biggest boner, he’s calling the Iraq war part of the war on [Islamic] terrorism. We know, of course, that Iraq was not part of the global terrorism network until we invaded, and even now that is not the major problem in Iraq-- the major problem is Iraqi Sunnis fighting Iraqi Shi’a.
OK, enough for that deconstruction. Boehner is a poopy-pants.
Why not? No Judaism, no Islam. (No Christianity either. 
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