Posted on 09/14/2006 9:43:34 AM PDT by Froufrou
"The war in Iraq is the wrong war. No matter how many times the president wants to say it, the war in Iraq is not the war on terror. The war in Afghanistan was."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made that comment Wednesday in a speech on the House floor. She was blasting a Republican resolution marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Pelosi says Republicans have introduced a partisan and "congratulatory" resolution: "It praises Congress for some reason," Pelosi complained.
"Instead of having the focus on the innocent victims of 9/11, it talks about the accomplishments of this Congress. I can't even imagine why they (Republican leaders) thought that was a good idea. Since they have opened the door to what they have done, they have also opened the door to what they have not done," she said.
Pelosi said the Senate's 9/11 anniversary resolution -- with its mix of mourning for the victims, consolation for the families, praise for the troops, and resolve to find the culprits -- strikes the right note.
Lost focus'
Pelosi says the nation has "lost focus on terrorism since the invasion of Iraq." (President Bush has described the war in Iraq as a key element in the global fight against terrorism.)
"Our focus should have continued to be on Afghanistan," Pelosi said. "We had the opportunity to destroy al Qaeda in Afghanistan and we missed the opportunity because we lost our focus."
In her speech, Pelosi listed what's gone wrong in Afghanistan -- the news is all bad, she suggests -- and then she mentions a number of security flaws at home, including a lack of screening at the nation's ports, etc. "The list goes on of shortcomings," she said.
But at the end of her speech, Pelosi says that "of course" Democrats will vote for the "flawed" resolution.
"It could be better. Just because the Republicans decided they wanted to praise themselves instead of focusing on the business at hand doesn't mean we won't support it."
Pelosi urged Congress to pass the recommendations of the 9/11 commission to "truly" honor the memory of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Where's the Democrats' plan?
Aside from passing the recommendations of the 9/11 commission, Pelosi -- in Wednesday's floor speech -- offered no solutions to the problems she enumerates.
The failure to come up with an alternative plan is a problem for Democrats. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that many voters don't think the Democrats have a plan to deal with the problems they continually mention.
According to the poll, 42 percent of registered voters said they are more concerned about Democrats having no plan to deal with the nation's problems than they are about Republicans offering no changes in dealing with those problems. Thirty-seven percent said they were more concerned about Republicans refusing to change course. (The poll of 1,009 registered voters, conducted Sept. 8-11, has a margin of error of plus/minus 3.1 points.)
Even the "centrist" Democratic Leadership Council, a group embraced by Bill and Hillary Clinton, is urging Democrats "to outline exactly what [they] would do to correct the nation's course and actually make life in a dangerous world safer for all Americans."
In an email "dispatch" to supporters, the DLC urged Democrats to adopt a "progressive alternative" to the "failed" GOP strategy. (The DLC says Democrats should use the Progressive Policy Institute's book "With All Our Might" as a starting point.)
The Bush administration has made it clear it will not "change course or accept responsibility for its mistakes," the DLC said.
"The next few weeks will show if Democrats are willing to rise to the occasion to offer the country a very different and successful path forward in the perilous journey that began on 9/11."
Someone needs to tell all terrorists coming across the border into Iraq from Syria and Iran. They aren't just from those two countries, they are from all over the Muslim world, but they do come through them.
Tell 'em "wrong war, go to America and Europe to kill the infidels."
Pelosi really helps us out with her nutspeak.
Thank you for the pictures. I support our troops and discount anything the left says against their efforts!
Oh worse than that, it's like saying the African and Italian campaigns where not part of the war against the German Nazis. Come to thing of it, Uncle Joe's American mouthpieces said just that. Some of the same folks, or their parents and grandparents, who are saying this sort of thing now.
If Ms. Pelosi fought the effing insurgents in Iraq with the same of amount of devotion that she fights President Bush, the war would be over now.
My God, what is wrong with this woman?
bttt
Thanks again Peach!
There's a book "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" in which it is said that Pelosi and her hubs are in the wine and resort biz in California. She has no unionized help [states she's pro-union, but pays lower wages this way] and some say there are illegals.
ditto
http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html
Peach.....do you have those somewhere (besides in this thread) so they can be referred to?
...So all those Al-Qaeda people in Iraq are there for violin practice for the Baghdad Philharmonic, I guess.
Or Africa!
Iraq is like VietNam - for al-Qaeda! They'd much rather be planning attacks here than having to expend resources at their own doorstep.
Maybe that's what Pelosi would want too, so she could bash Bush for that.
I used to BE a Democrat. I cannot tell you how low I think they now are . . .
Yeah Nancy, and you aren't a biatch either.
Here you go. You can bookmark the thread below or save to a file.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698371/posts
I agree with you, of course, but wish our side would simply assert, "Al-zarqauwi and other al-Qaeda leaders fled from Afghanistan to Iraq and set up station in Baghdad. They weren't there on a vacation."
Exactly - Bush went to war because he wants to kill young Americans and because he wants Halliburton to make large profits. Now you are getting it.
This is exactly what the Left thinks. And they do it with a straight face. They really don't see how delusional they are.
In her speech, Pelosi listed what's gone wrong in Afghanistan -- the news is all bad, she suggests -- and then she mentions a number of security flaws at home, including a lack of screening at the nation's ports, etc. "The list goes on of shortcomings," she said.
We're in Iraq because that's where the terrorists are.
It's the Dems who are blocking profiling at the airports, as well as blocking the arming of pilots.
When you have a huge propoganda machine behind you (a.k.a. - MSM), why worry about silly things like facts?
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