Nancy Pelosi Wishes The President Would Quit Blaming The Terrorists For Stuff
House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters on Wednesday that she feels it is “sad” that President Bush continues to blame Iraqi insurgent violence on al Qaeda.
“My thoughts on the president’s representations are well-known,” Pelosi said. “The 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again.”
Video here.
Nice job putting this woman in as Speaker of the House, America.
I mean, it’s not like the largest insurgency group in Iraq is called ”al Qaeda in Iraq” which was run, until his death, by a man who had declared his loyalty to Osama bin Laden or anything.
Seriously though, I wonder if Pelosi and her Democrat cohorts even listen to our military leaders when they talk:
According to Major General William Caldwell, because Iraq still has a “government moving forward” with “institutions in place,” and because al Qaeda in Iraq seeks “anarchy” instead of power, the current situation should not be considered a “civil war.”
“We don’t see an organization out there that’s looking to assume the control of this country, but rather just to create anarchy, to create death, to create destruction, and that’s in fact what we’re combatting right now,” Caldwell said.
That describes my problem with the whole “civil war” label for Iraq. The situation in that country is not one of rival political factions fighting for control of the country. What we have in Iraq is a legitimate, if infantile, national government that was designed by representatives of the Iraqi people and is being run by leaders put into power by the Iraqi people. The people fighting against that government are not struggling to put a different leader at the head of it or bring about a different sort of government altogether. They’re fighting simply to create anarchy and chaos so that American might withdraw from Iraq and the current government might be toppled.
The fighting in Iraq doesn’t represent a divided country (remember that turnout for the Iraqi elections was around 60% of eligible voters) so much as it represents a minority of Iraqis who are trying to undermine the will of Iraqis as a whole.













