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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Nancy Pelosi Wishes The President Would Quit Blaming The Terrorists For Stuff

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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.

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Rob,

I just wanted to say that this was a great article and that I agree with you completely. The left is blindly marching one by one behind the MSM.

lewis on November 28, 2006 at 05:29 pm

I just wish Nancy Pelosi would just quit!

Zsa Zsa on November 28, 2006 at 06:11 pm

In my opinion, she is one of the more out of touch politicians just behind Jimmy Carter, who sent me a letter today!  Did anyone else get one?


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Chief RZ on November 28, 2006 at 06:19 pm

Chief...What did he say?

Zsa Zsa on November 28, 2006 at 06:24 pm
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It’s obvious that she was answering some other question.  The 9/11 commission report is not relevant to the insurgency in Iraq.  She never said, “it is sad that President Bush continues to blame Iraqi insurgent violence on al Qaeda” as the Raw Story writer dishonestly implied.

Will on November 28, 2006 at 06:52 pm

See Bush blames the terrorists and the terrorists blame Bush.  The whole thing just escalates.

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The Whistler on November 28, 2006 at 06:53 pm

Zsa Zsa.  He went on about how he was so involved with building houses, and helping out discover diseases in Africa… I may ask him if he will help convince the facists there to allow DDT into their countries, saving millions of people.


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Chief RZ on November 28, 2006 at 07:02 pm
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It’s obvious that she was answering some other question.

Right, Will.  Because Raw Story, that bastion of conservative sympathies, is out to get Pelosi.


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Rob on November 28, 2006 at 08:30 pm

So, will, Rawstory faked that piece of video? And faked all the other instances over the last 3 years that she has said much the same thing? Wow! That Rawstory crowd must be in leaque with the Stonecutters!


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2Hotel9 on November 29, 2006 at 02:39 am

Chief, we got one of those letters too. It burned with lots of pretty colors. I thought he was all enviromentally concious and what not. It was all new manufacture, and part of it was glossy finish. For shame, Jimma.


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2Hotel9 on November 29, 2006 at 02:46 am
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Liberalism is a mental disorder and Nancy is the Queen Nut.

Mickey on November 29, 2006 at 06:12 am

Why should we wish Nacy to stop? Maybe we should encourage her, and let her ridiculous ideology sour, for then people can get a glimpse of why far-left democrats shouldn’t be in power. And if all else fails, we can kick California out of the Union.

Dan on November 29, 2006 at 06:25 am

Hello, Nancy?

Yeah, the 9/11 Commission studied things that happened prior to September 2001.  The War in Iraq started in 2003.

I bet if you check your mail, you will find a nice calendar that someone sent you.  It will help you keep track of dates and stuff.


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Steve L. on November 29, 2006 at 06:49 am
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So, will, Rawstory faked that piece of video?

Pelosi never said, “it is sad that President Bush continues to blame Iraqi insurgent violence on al Qaeda” as the Raw Story writer dishonestly implied.  She never said anything close to that.

Watch the video if you don’t believe me.  She is shown saying something that has nothing to do with the insurgent violence in Iraq.  As you watch the video, you can see there is a break between the question being asked and the statement she makes, so we don’t know how much time passed or what was said between the asking of the question and what she is shown saying.  But even there weren’t that break in the video, it is clear that she is talking about something other than the sectarian violence in Iraq.

Will on November 29, 2006 at 07:34 am

Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly made statements of this nature for at least the last 3 years. What is your agenda, willie?


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2Hotel9 on November 29, 2006 at 01:13 pm
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