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on Monday, January 29, 2007 2:31:24 PM
Surprise, surprise ... namby-pamby Nancy wants a withdrawal from Iraq:(HT: Allah at Hot-Air)Three days in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan have made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi even more certain of her view that moving troops out of Iraq is the best way to bring stability to the region, she told The Chronicle on Sunday.
Speaking from Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, Pelosi said the nation owes its troops a better policy than the one now being pursued by President Bush, and emphasized the importance of reconstructing the war-torn region.
As Congress prepares to challenge the president's Iraq policy, Pelosi offered no indication that her meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had softened her opposition to Bush's plan to send 21,500 more American troops into the war.
The high-level meetings highlighted Pelosi's determination to place Iraq near the top of the agenda for the new Democratic Congress. It also emphasized on a world stage the enormous differences between Congress and the White House over the way forward.
"We owe them better policy. We owe them better initiatives,'' Pelosi said after meeting the past three days with scores of U.S. troops and military commanders, as well as the top political leader in each of the three countries. "I believe redeployment of our troops is a step toward stability in the region.''
Typical. A three-day tour, and Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows everything. We warned people that the Democrats would try this when they took power in Congress. Few listened, and most laughed at the prospect of them being able to pull off a possible withdrawal. But now we see that Nancy's ready to pull the cut-and-run. Now, as Marcie pointed out earlier, according to Senator McConnell, those resolutions are DOA. He is getting the necessary amount of Republicans together to ensure cloture can't be reached on any one of the three resolutions. We trust that he'll accomplish that goal.
But for "the most powerful woman in America" (by her own admission over tea) there's still a long road ahead to get the troops pulled, and it's not going to be easy. The GOP, despite certain members in the senate, aren't simply going to roll over for her. But she is doing a great job of showing the yellow streak that the Congressional Democrats, and extreme Left fringe are prone to having. They don't understand the gravity of the situation, and their repeated attempts to undermine the president simply shows the nation that they don't stand for national security.
Those who don't get this issue either aren't paying attention, or they believe what they read on Kos. That sends a clear message to the mainstream of America that these people are completely off their rockers. A redeployment right now will cede the battlefield to an enemy that will slaughter thousands. And I do mean that. The lessons of Vietnam are still prevalent today, and when we withdrew from there, the Communists wasted little time in dispensing with their enemies in the south. If we leave now, al-Sadr's militia will murder thousands of Sunnis. Al Qaeda will kill thousands of shi'ites. The government will collapse, and the Iranian elements in Iraq right now will set up shop there in an effort to mold Iraq into what Iran is. Or worse, they'll reopen Saddam's torture chambers for the dissidents that are giving Ahmadinejad fits.
Nancy would've done a better job if when she returned she had given the MSM a "no comment" or "we're looking at all the options" sort of answer. No, instead she had to play the John Kerry hoof-in-mouth game. These people won't ever learn what it means to stand up for the nation. She, like the rest of her Lefty fringe nutters, simply don't care about this nation. I'm sick of people making excuses that it's just "rhetoric." There is a responsibility being an elected official in this nation, and part of that includes standing up for America. If she can't do that, then it's time for her to simply shut up.
She and her colleagues in the House and Senate (including John Conyers) won't get their way. Cry the crocodile tears now kids, because the troops aren't coming home until the job is done, and the president IS going to get the extra troops over there to do it.
Publius II