Posted on 06/23/2005 6:26:56 AM PDT by HRoarke
Seven Republican members of Congress said yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was "demoralizing" U.S. troops by saying twice Tuesday that the war in Afghanistan is over during a press conference she held to call for an investigation of detainee abuses. "Would you prefer that they gave up the fight, stopped hunting for Osama bin Laden and allowed the terrorists to run free?" the Republicans, all members of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote in a letter to the California Democrat. On Tuesday, Mrs. Pelosi and three other top Democrats called for a commission to investigate reported abuses of detainees from the war on terror. Mrs. Pelosi said it is past time that the administration established a policy on determining the fates of the detainees at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arguing that most are from Afghanistan and that the conflict there has ended. "I assume that the war in Afghanistan is over, or is the contention that you have that it continues?" she said to a reporter. A few moments later, she said: "This isn't about the duration of the war. The war in Afghanistan is over."
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She is an embarassment. Sadly the war is over for too many. Here's a partial list Nancy, you stupid whore:
American Servicemen and Women Killed in Afghanistan May 27, 2004 through May 23, 2005
ARIZONA A SSG BRIAN SCOTT HOBBS, 31 MESA, AZ
ARKANSAS F A1C JESSE MONROE SAMEK, 21 ROGERS, AR
CALIFORNIA A CPL DALE EDWIN FRACKER, JR 23 APPLE VALLEY, CA A CPL BILLY GOMEZ, 25 PERRIS, CA A SFC ALLEN CORNELIUS JOHNSON, 31 LOS MOLINOS, CA
CONNECTICUT A LTC MICHAEL JEROME MCMAHON, 41 WEST HARTFORD, CT
DELAWARE M LCPL RUSSELL PATRICK WHITE, 19 DAGSBORO, DE
FLORIDA A CPT DANIEL WILLIAM EGGERS, 28 CAPE CORAL, FL
GEORGIA A SSG ROBERT STACEY GOODWIN, 35 ALBANY, GA
HAWAII A CPL KYLE KA EO FERNANDEZ, 26 WAIPAHU, HI
ILLINOIS A SPC WESLEY ROBERT WELLS, 21 LIBERTYVILLE, IL
INDIANA A CPT MICHAEL TODD FISCUS, 36 MILFORD, IN A MSG MICHAEL THOMAS HIESTER, 33 BLUFFTON, IN M SGT JAMES SHAWN LEE, 26 MT. VERNON, IN A SPC NORMAN KYLE SNYDER, 21 CARLISLE, IN A SGT JEREMY ROBERT WRIGHT, 31 SHELBYVILLE, IN
IOWA A SGT JAMES CHARLES KEARNEY, III 22 EMERSON, IA
LOUISIANA A SGM BARBARALIEN BANKS, 41 HARVEY, LA A CPL DAVID MAURICE FRAISE, 24 NEW ORLEANS M CPL RICHARD P. SCHOENER, 22 HAYES, LA
MASSACHUSETTS A MAJ DAVID SCOTT CONNOLLY, 37 BOSTON N PO1 BRIAN JOSEPH OUELLETTE, 37 NEEDHAM, MA
MISSOURI A SPC RICHARD MICHAEL CRANE, 25 INDEPENDENCE, MO A CPL JACOB RUDELOFF FLEISCHER, 25 ST LOUIS A SSG CHARLES RAY SANDERS, JR 29 CHARLESTON, MO
NEBRASKA A SSG SHANE MARION KOELE, 25 CONSTANTINOPLE, NE
NEW JERSEY A PFC ROBERT CHARLES WHITE, III 21 CAMDEN, NJ
NEW YORK A CW2 DAVID AYALA, 24 NEW YORK, NY A SPC ROBERT WILLIAM DEFAZIO, 21 WEST BABYLON, NY A CPL SASCHA STRUBLE, 20 PHILADELPHIA, NY
NORTH CAROLINA A SFC ROBERT JOSEPH MOGENSEN, 26 PINEBLUFF, NC A SPC MICHAEL KEITH SPIVEY, 21 FAYETTEVILLE, NC A SSG ROMANES LEE WOODARD, 30 HERTFORD, NC
OHIO A CPL DANIEL JASON FREEMAN, 20 CINCINNATI A SPC JULIE ROCHELLE HICKEY, 20 GALLOWAY, OH A SGT MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER O'NEILL, 22 MANSFIELD, OH
OKLAHOMA A SGT DANIEL LEE GALVAN, 30 MOORE, OK
OREGON A SPC JOSEPH ALLEN JEFFRIES, 21 BEAVERTON, OR
PENNSYLVANIA A SGT BRETT MICHAEL HERSHEY, 23 STATE COLLEGE, PA
PUERTO RICO A MSG COLON EDWIN ANTONIO MATOS, 42 JUANA DIAZ, PR A SFC PEDRO ANTONIO MUNOZ, 47 AGUADA, PR
SOUTH CAROLINA A SGT STEPHEN CORRELL HIGH, 45 SPARTANBURG, SC A MAJ EDWARD JOHN MURPHY, 36 ADAMS RUN, SC A SSG TONY BRUCE OLAES, 30 WALHALLA, SC A SPC CHRYSTAL GAYE STOUT, 23 TRAVELERS REST, SC
TENNESSEE M PFC DANIEL BRADLEY MCCLENNEY, 19 SHELBYVILLE, TN
TEXAS A CPL WILLIAM MADDEN AMUNDSON, JR 21 THE WOODLANDS, TX A CPL ISAAC EDWARD DIAZ, 26 RIO HONDO, TX A SPC JUAN MANUEL TORRES, 25 HOUSTON
UTAH A SSG ALAN LEE ROGERS, 49 KEARNS, UT
VIRGINIA A SSG CRAIG WILLIAM CHERRY, 39 WINCHESTER, VA A CW2 TRAVIS WAYNE GROGAN, 31 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA M LCPL NICHOLAS C. KIRVEN, 21 Richmond, VA A SFC ROBERT KEITH MCGEE, 37 MARTINSVILLE, VA A SPC PENDELTON LIDELL SYKES, II 25 CHESAPEAKE, VA
WASHINGTON A SPC HARLEY D R MILLER, 21 SPOKANE, WA A CW2 CLINT JEFFREY PRATHER, 32 CHENEY, WA
WEST VIRGINIA A SGT BOBBY EDWARD BEASLEY, 36 INWOOD, WV
Hamid Karzai Declares Nancy Pelosi's career OVER!
An "embarassment", no doubt, in fact, that's probably being too kind.
What a nutbag. What's up with the dems? First Durbin...no Pelosi, even for being the usual nutjobs they're being more daffy.
Now, the stupid itch is a military stratagist. Some surgeon needs to operate on her eyelids so she can close them at night. Not getting enough sleep has affected what brain she has.
And the stupid a-holes in California will happily re-elect her.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The war is over?
Who does she think she is
What a stupid, STUPID congresswoman... She does not deserve to be in the leadership position in which she is in. What is wrong with people who repeatedly elect the likes of her to Congress. Simply unbelievable!
The military needs to drop her a$$ out the back of a C-130 over Tora Bora, or the Afgahn border with Pakistan, with a backpack full of bibles and some pork rinds.
"C-Ya Wench!"
Karl Zinmaster (sp?) said yesterday in an article for the American Enterprise yesterday that the Iraq was over and we "won." I don't remember that anyone here was particularly bothered by that!
They need to have their lives turned inside out - there's something that will shut this extremely dangerous idiot up. Not talking about making anything up or framing anyone. The goods just need to be gotten.
And before the flaming starts at least consider that "gotten goods" or pictures etc. is the most likely explanation for the spineless pub majority in the senate.
The stakes are too high to continue playing by "gentlemen's rules" - if those ever existed outside of the movies.
As Laura Ingraham just said...
"Liberals champion the rights of terrorists."
unbelievable!
I guess she isn't keeping up withe news:
More than 100 Taliban killed in south Afghanistan in three days
KABUL, June 23 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 100 Taliban militants werekilled during the fight began three days ago with the Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and Coalition inAfghan southern province of Kandahar, an Afghan official said Thursday.
"The fight began on the night of Monday in Mian Nashin district of Kandahar, and 32 Taliban militants were killed during the fight on Tuesday, with 15 being arrested," Defense Minister Mohammad Ishaq told Xinhua.
"The fight continued on Wednesday, our troops killed 70 militants in the battle field, and surrounded five Taliban in the area. We confirm that both Mullah Barabar and Mullah Dadulah were among those five, and we will try to catch them," Ishaq added.
Demand that Pelosi be censured for her comments and removed from her post in the House. Her behavior is reprehensible.
The War is Over, and We Won
By Karl Zinsmeister
Your editor returned to Iraq in April and May of 2005 for another embedded period of reporting. I could immediately see improvements compared to my earlier extended tours during 2003 and 2004. The Iraqi security forces, for example, are vastly more competent, and in some cases quite inspiring. Baghdad is now choked with traffic. Cell phones have spread like wildfire. And satellite TV dishes sprout from even the most humble mud hovels in the countryside.
Many of the soldiers I spent time with during this spring had also been deployed during the initial invasion back in 2003. Almost universally they talked to me about how much change they could see in the country. They noted progress in the attitudes of the people, in the condition of important infrastructure, in security.
I observed many examples of this myself. Take the two very different Baghdad neighborhoods of Haifa Street and Sadr City. The first is an upper-end commercial district in the heart of downtown. The second is one of Baghdad’s worst slums, on the city’s north edge.
I spent lots of time walking both neighborhoods this spring—something that would not have been possible a year earlier, when both were active war zones, where tanks poured shells into buildings on a regular basis. Today, the primary work of our soldiers in each area is rebuilding sewers, paving roads, getting buildings repaired and secured, supplying schools and hospitals, getting trash picked up, managing traffic, and encouraging honest local governance.
What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over. [my emphasis? Egregious acts of terror will continue—in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerilla war.
Read more here
The left wants to declare the war "over" so that they can release the prisoners and not be found guilty of treason for aided said enemy.
Other than that, they will still be listing "war dead" and demanding that the troops be brought home. We still have trooops in Japan, Germany, Korea, and countless other battlegrounds.
Heavy deployment remained for years after the wars. Stabilization efforts remain.
When some moderate leftist was talking to me a couple months ago and saying that this war in Iraq has people down, I said "what war?". There is no "enemy" side, these are terrorists making individual strikes. Saddam will not return to power. There is no uniform for the other side. There is no one to negotiate with at a table. They already kill men women and children, Iraqis and foreigners. Their "word" on an agreement is worth nothing.
The "insurgents" who come in from other countries (and are paid to fight) are akin to the KKK in the post-Civil War reconstruction South. Create havok, assassinate those who may come to power. If there was any support for the "insurgents" they would vote for their representatives at the ballot box.
What is it with this woman and her liberal friends? Every single day they wake up "dump" on the Military, and then wipe their "behinds" with the the American flag. Outrageous!
You would think they might take a day off. You know, just to do something different. Can they just once say something truthful about our heroic fighting men and women? After all, our young soldiers and marines are taking horrible casualties every day. How ironic, our youthful servicemen get their arms and legs blown off every day so these liberal jerks can call them Nazis. Liberals must be the world's greatest ingrates!
These Commie/libs can't wait to haul some soldier before some stupid commission to explain why he/she was so mean to the people who were beheading their prisoners. It's getting very old and tedious. It is also treasonous. The military will police their own without your help, Ms. Pelosi. (One more facelift she'll have a goatee).
See post #6
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