Posted on 10/24/2006 7:47:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi Doesn't Understand War on Terror, Hastert Says By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor October 24, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - The United States cannot win the global war on terror if U.S. leaders don't understand it -- and Rep. Nancy Pelosi does not understand it, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said on Tuesday.
Hastert -- who holds the job that Pelosi is eager to assume -- was reacting to Pelosi's remarks on the CBS program "60 Minutes." He said her comments should serve as a "bellwether" for the American people.
"Democrat Leader Pelosi would trust the terrorists to give up their objective and play nice in exchange for the United States leaving Iraq. This outlook is foolish, naive and dangerous," Hastert said.
Pelosi told CBS's Leslie Stahl that yes, there are terrorists in Iraq. "But that doesn't mean we stay there. They'll stay there as long as we're there. They're there because we're there," she said.
Hastert said the minority leader is wrong. The global war on terror is just that -- global, he said. "It is not fought in just one country. It is not even fought in one hemisphere."
Hastert said that's why Pelosi's comments are "irresponsible."
"Is the Democrat Minority Leader really turning a blind eye towards the countless number of terrorists that we are fighting in the streets and battlefields of Iraq and also in numerous countries around the world? Does she forget the nearly 3,000 victims of September 11th? The 201 victims of the Madrid train bombings? And the 52 victims of the London bomb attacks? These were all innocent victims of the Global War on Terror. And what about the countless others who have been saved because of our efforts?
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Understatement. Nazi Pelosi does not understand anything but socialism. More taxation and government control of your life --- and totally brainless. I had the misfortune of hearing this (woman?) speak once -- I have never heard such stupidity and moronic paranoid socialist blather come out of anyone's mouth -- well maybe Kerry and Dean run a close second....total nutjob.
To be on next week's 60 minutes, right? /sarc
Whoa! Who woke Denny up?
Hell hath no fury than a politician who may lose his position.
“We have seen in the last decade the decline of the American government and the weakness of the American soldier who is ready to wage Cold Wars and unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut when the Marines fled after two explosions. It also proves they can run in less than 24 hours, and this was also repeated in Somalia.” - Osama Bin Laden, May 1998
To which I would add solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (T. Hobbes)
And it doesn't have a Dental Plan.
The only thing Pelosi understands if power, ego, and greed. Anything to do with the country's security is beyond her mental capabilities.
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There. I think this is even more accurate...
In addition, when asked by Stahl where the WOT was, Pelosi answered "Afganistan." So that's it, it's all in one place. Does anyone who doesn't have a death wish really want this incredibly dumb woman to control the agenda in the House. (Rhetorical question.)
in fact she has..you see she has to, because all liberals think the same way. The liberals and their way of thinking must be defeated.
Pelosi-galore ALERT!!!
Did she REALLY say that? God help us if they win.
Damn. She is dangerously dumb.
Nancy has been an empty headed socialite since childhood. She ran around Baltimore with her hoity toity friends in their white pinafores, lording it over every girl with socialite pretentions. The family is East Baltimore royalty, boasting some of the worse mayors in the city's history.
This is a pampered brat become a tyrannical elitist in the most outrageously outre district in the nation. She is badly in need of spanking.
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