Dems: We Don’t Have an Iraq Plan, But That’s OK

GOPUSA: The Loft ^ | December 16, 2005 | Bobby Eberle

[Warhammer]

Prepare your mind and body for a trip into the Twilight Zone. Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives said yesterday that the Democrats will offer no unified position on Iraq in 2006. Despite claims by Democrats and the media that the Bush administration has no plan, Pelosi said that differing opinions within her party regarding Iraq are “a sign of strength.”

In comments made to the Washington Post, Pelosi told reporters and editors that Democrats “should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.”

Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and that a new course is needed, but House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, she said.

So, let’s get this straight… First, the Democrats are upset because they think the president doesn’t have a plan for Iraq, yet the Dems are going on record saying they won’t be offering one at all? Second, not only will they not be offering a plan, but the fact that they won’t is actually a good thing? Did I get that right?

The Democrats are in such a mess regarding Iraq, it’s a wonder how they can take themselves seriously. As the Post points out, Pelosi came out in favor of Rep. John Murtha’s recent call for swift withdrawal from Iraq. That position was denounced by House Democrat Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer. Pelosi’s comments of no unified message are counter to recent statements by other leading Democrats:

Her comments ruling out a caucus position appeared to put Pelosi at odds with some other party officials. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean recently said Democrats were beginning to coalesce around a strategy that would pull out all troops over the next two years. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said on the day Murtha offered his plan, “As for Iraq policy, at the right time, we’ll have a position.”

All one needs to do is look at yesterday’s elections in Iraq — elections in which all major factions participated — and see that there is a plan for Iraq, and it’s working. The Iraqi people are building a new government and charting a new course in which Kurds, Sunnis, and Shites will work together unlike any other time in their history. That is real progress, and it is truly remarkable.

For Nancy Pelosi to criticize the president yet offer no plan of her own is poor politics. To offer no plan, yet claim that it is a “show of strength” is absolutely absurd.

[Warhammer]

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with ." -- Theodore Roosevelt.

[RexBeach]

Is this woman mental...or just stupid?

[Past Your Eyes]

"calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.”

Well, heck fahr, them people have really got it together, ain't they?

[Tom A]

"We may not succeed in answering all of your questions; in fact, we may not completely answer any of them. The answers we have, however, do serve to raise a whole new set of questions about problems we had not thought of previously. In some ways we are as confused as you are, but
we believe our confusion is on a higher plane and about more important matters." author unknown

[Rennes Templar]

"Democrats “should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience..."

Individual cowardice is more like it.

[Cat loving Texan]

Is this woman mental...or just stupid?

Both. Liberalism is a mental disorder you know.

[N2Gems]

my bet is on just plain stupid.

[farlander]

Wow. Just... wow. Just as I tought the limits of delusion could go no further. And she's representing people ? She's far more fit for psychoanalyst's couch. And boy would that be some analysis going on to explain this...

[Gator101]

I think that someday when kids are in history class studying the late 20th/early 21st century collapse of Democratic party they will laugh and roll their eyes as their teacher jokes about all the lame things said by Democrats as the ship went down.

[domenad]

Translation: We don't want to tell everyone that we would just pull out and leave Iraqis to their fate, but we don't want to look like we support the war for fear of alienating the fruitcakes that provide us with the bulk of our funding.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Pelosi should just use John Kerry's plan.

Then maybe we'll find out what it was.

[the anti-liberal]

For an excerices in extreme imagination, imagine if Pelosi were the President of the US of A. Now imagine how she would have and would now be handling Iraq, Iran, Israel, etc...

Scary ain't it?

[massgopguy]

Dems are not giving a plan because in 2006 when the troops are coming home victorious and Iraq's fledgling democracy is on course and the Al Queda cancer crushed, they will jump up and say "me too" and try to take credit.

[the anti-liberal]

excerices s/b exercise

[smoothsailing]

Is this woman mental...or just stupid?

YES

[Cobra64]

Is this woman mental...or just stupid?

I would say that you are being redundant. LOL

BTW, when referring to a Lib as not too smart, I'd suggest you spell it "stooopid."

[TheForceOfOne]

But the Democrats do have a plan for Iraq and they have defined it quite well, its called defeat aka the cut and run policy.

[TexasCajun]

When Democrats offer no unified position on any subject you know their party is falling apart at the seams.

If there is one thing about the rats, they are always on the same page of the playbook.

More evidence of the democrat meltdown.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Pelosi said that differing opinions within her party regarding Iraq are “a sign of strength.”

Sure it is, nancy... sure it is. ;)

[knews_hound]

The real reason they don't have a plan is that they have put themselves into a no win situation on Iraq.

After 18 months of catterwalling about Quagmires, defeat and pull outs, the very same things they have been demanding are coming to pass in spite of them

The only question I have is how they will try to take credit for it after saying for 3 years that it cannot be done.

Predictably, the MS will carry their water yet again and somehow the Dems will try to declare that if it wasn't for their "asking questions" none of it would have happened.

It is up to US to constantly remind these Clymers that had we listened to them NONE OF IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

Cheers,

knews hound

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