Pelosi Throws a Hissy Fit
After Democratic congressional leaders met with President Bush, Nancy Pelosi issued this press release:
“President Bush’s policy announced by General Petraeus is a path to 10 more years of war in Iraq. General Petraeus’ testimony to Congress drew a bright line: redeployment is not an option; endless war in Iraq is the Administration’s only option.
“Under the Bush plan, 130,000 Americans will remain in harm’s way in Iraq at a cost of hundreds of billions of additional taxpayer dollars. This status quo policy was rejected by General James Jones, whose recent report stated that significant force reductions are possible and that we must reduce our military footprint in Iraq.
“The Bush-Petraeus plan of 130,000 Americans in Iraq for 10 more years is not a reduction in our footprint; it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to call that a new direction. It is a status quo plan that tells the Iraqi government that they do not need to change.
“The American people long ago rejected the President’s plan to stay in Iraq, which is why they voted for a New Direction in 2006. Yet, with his veto pen and the 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, the President is preventing the redeployment of our troops, the rebuilding of our military, and the refocusing of our nation’s efforts on fighting terrorism.”
This is the most misleading statement I’ve ever seen. Considering that Ms. Pelosi issued it, I can’t say that I’m surprised. Notice how the inference of the first paragraph is that President Bush plans on fighting in Iraq for a decade. That’s a patently absurd statement since President Bush will be out of office in 18 months.
Based on the content of this statement, I can’t conclude anything other than the fact that that she’s a bald-faced liar. I watched the testimony Tuesday. Gen. Petraeus said that the US military footprint in Iraq likely will drop to 130,000 by this time next year, with more troop withdrawals as conditions improve. I find it insulting to hear her say that President Bush plans on keeping that many troops in Iraq considering the fact that he’ll be out of office in another 16 months.
Another point where Ms. Pelosi is telling whoppers is in her saying that President Bush’s veto pen is preventing “the redeployment of our troops…” What she’s really saying is that Congress doesn’t want to do what it has the power to do: end funding for the war. The surest way to mandate the redeployment of troops is for the House to not take up the next Iraq supplemental that President Bush sends up. If the money isn’t appropriated, the war screeches to a halt.
Another absurd statement is that we’re currently employing a “status quo policy.” It’s insulting to us that she wants people to believe that Sunni sheikhs in Anbar turning on AQI terrorists is part of a status quo policy. It’s equally insulting that she’d try convincing us that aggressively attacking Sadr’s militias south of Iraq is part of a status quo policy.
The truth is that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to admit that there has been a change of plans in Iraq. She won’t call it a change of policy because it isn’t the type of policy change that she was pushing.
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September 12th, 2007 at 12:40 am
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September 12th, 2007 at 2:43 am
If Ms. Pelosi is so concerned about patently failed policies, why hasn’t she started railing against the failed “War on Poverty?”
How many hundreds of billions of dollars has the country thrown at “poverty” only to hear the demand that more be thrown?
Or at education?
The list is as long as the programs the country feeds economically. Including agricultural subsidies.
Any answer, Ms. Pelosi? No? Maybe it’s because you’re terribly selective about your outrage about spending? And don’t tell me it’s about our citizens dying, because your war on poverty has caused the deaths of countless poor people, too. Not even counting the abortions of minorities you encourage.
Liar. And viper.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Unless we do things her (their) way all is fine, right? The biggest problems of the truly misled Democrat Congress is their refusal to admit the truth. Nancy Pelosi is CODE PINK.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:41 am
We elect the Pelosis and Boxers and Schumers and other political wimps of the country.
Why? Because they show us the easy ways out.
Dont blame Pelosi, blame the lazy Americans who’d rather watch Hollywood bimbos dance around in underwear, and watch the daily dogfights on crap TV than shoulder the sacrifices and responsibilities of being the worlds leading democracy.
Americans who’d rather let the slimeballs of the ACLU gut the Patriot Act than have to nwrry about the next terrorist attack.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I’m no fan of Pelosi’s, but your main problem with her statement is quite a stretch, IMO.
The text as quoted says the plan is the Bush Administration’s and that, if followed, the plan will cause the war to last for 10 years. To my reading there isn’t even a hint of an implication that the war won’t be fought by others after Bush leaves office. And that’s when I’m reading it really looking hard for that interpretation. I just don’t see it.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Should we really be suprised by these kind of statements? We need to stop being so polite to these people and start calling a spade a spade. These people are willing to ruin this country for thier own personal power. That is all Dems have ever cared about. They keep black people and other minorities poor and uneducated so that they can control thier votes.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Americans need to grow up!
It’s not a question of Bush’s plan or nothing.
Do we or do we not face an enemy in Islamic fascism?
If we do, are we or are we not engaging them militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan?
If not there, where?
If we are, we are why we afraid to act like it?
Do we want to fight them or not?
If not, where or how do we fight them.
Or do we just walk away and hope they do likewise?
If we aren’t doing ourseves or the Iraqis any good, then whats the alternative?
Where do we go from here?
What does Madame speaker want us to do after we bring all the troops home? Retire to the NCO club for a cold one? What?
Americans need to ask our “leaders” these quesions. Because the only leader I saw they last two days at the Congress was getting persecuted for being one.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
whatever you think of what Pelosi said, where’s the hissy fit? Can you even throw a hissy fit on paper? What is a hissy fit, anyway?
September 12th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Noah: a hissy fit is the tantrum libs throw when they don’t get their way. Kinda like a two-year-old pitching a fit when told he/she can’t go outside and play. Or when a donkey leader, basing her national reelection campaign strategy for all the donkeys on defeat in Iraq, has news given to her by a media that hates the president that the war isn’t being lost.
That’s a hissy fit.