Posted on 02/25/2009 6:13:22 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Nancy Pelosi signaled that Congressional Democrats may be reluctant to embrace Obama's slower withdrawal from Iraq than promised on the campaign:
MADDOW: Doesn't 50,000 seem like an awful lot of residual force?
PELOSI: It does, it does. I completely agree with that. And the president hasn't made a statement, so I don't know what he's going to say. I know that the rumor is-- and I don't know what the justification is for 50,000, at the present, the 50,000 troops in Iraq. I do think that there's a need for some. I don't know that all of them have to be in country. They can be platformed outside.
But I'll just be interested to see what the president has to say. But I do think that -- I would think a third of that, maybe 20,000, a little more than a third, 15,000 or 20,000.
But again, I don't know what purpose he has in keeping them there, whether it is to fight terrorism, train the whatever -- the training of the Iraqis, which seems to have been going on forever. I don't know what the purpose of those are.
So we have to see what the purpose is, how it fits the mission of our national security, and why that number is important. But again, he hasn't said it yet, so I would love to see what he has to say. But I am pleased that we are, at long last, on a path to responsibly end the war. He said 19 months, but he said by 19 months -- so I would hope that it could be sooner than that.
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This woman is crazy. She has no business being in an elected office.
3rd in line
Nancy is too stupid to realize that ANYTHING negative that happens as a consequence of pulling the troops out of Iraq, they are going to be blamed for all of it.
When will the Democrats start referring to Obama as Bush-lite.
Pelosi is falling back to Platforming them in OKINAWA!!Just llike jack Murtha taught her!!
“Children All”
But I think they are afraid to have a bunch of our troops back home while they are destroying our country.
The soldiers might not take kindly to that.
They want time to dilute the patriots before they take us on full force.
Ann Coulter
You mean like when the Democrats were blamed for escalating the Vietnam war and then losing it?
Her disconnected thinking process and speech patterns certainly prove what a nubmskull she really is.
But she’s not bad as a cheerleader, even at her age.
She is not worth one soldier’s life, the worthless hag. Bring the Brave men home. Let the socialists defend this country.
This woman thinks she is qualified to make decisions regarding tactical operations. Put her in charge of the armed forces and she couldn’t strategically defeat a 5 year old.
That won't be necessary. They just won't re-enlist for Obama.
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