Pelosi's crew and Osama bin Laden share common goal (Great Read!)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1-21-07 | Dinesh D'Souza

[smoothsailing]

Pelosi's crew and Osama bin Laden share common goal

- Dinesh D'Souza

Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Pelosi Democrats sometimes appear to be just as eager as Osama bin Laden for President Bush to lose his war on terror. Why do I say this? Because if the Pelosi Democrats were seeking Bush's success, then their rhetoric and actions now and over the past three years are pretty much incomprehensible. By contrast, if you presume that they want Bush's war on terror to fail, then their words and behavior make perfect sense.

Shortly before the November election, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi spoke about the American effort to capture or kill bin Laden. "Even if he is caught tomorrow, it's five years too late," she said. "He has done more damage the longer he has been out there. But in fact, the damage that he has done is done. And even to capture him now I don't think makes us any safer."

From the point of view of new House Speaker Pelosi and her fellow liberal Democrats, bin Laden today is, well, a small problem.

Listen to Pelosi and her colleagues on the left speaking about Bush, however, and it's clear they regard him as a very big problem.

Sen. Robert Byrd compares Bush to Hermann Goering and the Nazis. Hillary Clinton accuses him of "turning back the clock on the 20th century ... systematically weakening the democratic tradition. ... There has never been an administration more intent upon consolidating and abusing power." Sen. Ted Kennedy charges that "no president in America's history has done more damage to our country than George W. Bush."

What emerges from these comments is the indignation gap -- the vastly different level of emotion that leftists and liberals employ...

[Zeppo]

It's a great article that rings true in every statement except for this fragment: He now openly praises American leftists like Robert Fisk and William Blum

Robert Fisk is a Brit... (Unless, that is, he is talking about some American leftist cursed by sharing the same name as the famously-wrongheaded British loudmouth)...

[smoothsailing]

I thought that came later, after trains were invented.

"Tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail". LOL!!!

[n-tres-ted]

Thank you for printing that. But let's not sell our president short. I believe him to be stalwart, and am pleased to see more effective military tactics being implemented. I believed we were on the brink of winning in Iraq last Summer, but the American Left made it clear if our enemies could muster more violence before the election, the outcome here could help them there. They've almost (in their minds) achieved their objectives, but I think we're closer to turning the corner in Iraq than some of our Republican senators are able to see.

[smoothsailing]

Good eye,Zep! I missed that on first read.

[upchuck]

Thanks for linking to the printer friendly, less graphic intense version. Those of us trapped in 56K dialup HELL appreciate it.

Here's the money quote:

But the man who threatens the Islamic radicals and the American left even more than either group threatens the other is Bush. Leftists don't like radical Muslims like bin Laden but they absolutely hate Bush. Why? Because from the left's point of view, bin Laden threatens to impose sharia in Baghdad but Bush threatens to impose sharia in Boston. Bin Laden is the far enemy but Bush is the near enemy.

[Tut]

Ping

[jazusamo]

It's really hard to believe that some Americans can get those kinds of things in their heads. We live in the finest country in the world and some take sides with people who have and are killing us just because we're Americans.

They are either mentally ill or have a death wish.

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for linking to the printer friendly, less graphic intense version. Those of us trapped in 56K dialup HELL appreciate it.

I know what you mean, until last month all I had ever had was a 56k dialup webtv. I finally got a Dell with comcast highspeed. The difference is like night and day. But I'll never forget the webtv, and I'll always post printer friendly if possible.

[KMAJ2]

While I agree with the sentiment that the left is undermining morale of the troops and the war effort, we do not strengthen our case if we use false quotes from Abraham Lincoln:

Misquoting Lincoln
http://factcheck.org/article415.html

[Fred Nerks]

IMO she knows exactly what she should be afraid of, she's killing the messenger. People in denial are inclined to act that way...

[Just A Nobody]

I call it treason.

"There's not a carte blanche, a blank check for him to do whatever he wishes there," she said. A Bush spokesman, Alex Conant, welcomed Pelosi's participation in the debate and said, "We're glad the speaker wants us to succeed in Iraq."

This is typical Washington doubletalk. What Conant cannot say is that Pelosi no more wants Bush to succeed in Iraq than bin Laden does.

Doubletalk or lying? Why can't our side say Pelosi no more wants Bush to succeed in Iraq than bin Laden does?

Those things that sit on the other side of the isle say any lying, conniving, treasonous, unfounded thing they want. Our side comes back with, we welcome your participation or I don't question your patriotism.

Well I question their patriotism!

The DC Chapter has a great sign that is most appropriate:

TREASON...the New Patriotism.

[Just A Nobody]

if Pelosi succeeds, is that Bush's Middle East policy will fall into ruins, he will go down in history as a president as bad as Nixon, and conservative foreign policy will be disgraced for a generation.

That is the only part of the article I had a serious problem with. Nixon??? What about jimmah cartah...the father of the mess that President Bush has been forced to deal with?

What about bj 'Toon, who fiddled through 8 years of terrorist attacks killing 608 Americans?

[Just A Nobody]

the American Left made it clear if our enemies could muster more violence before the election, the outcome here could help them there.

Good to see someone else gets it!

[Just A Nobody]

Is that you Cliff Hancuff?

The fact of the matter is that the quote doesn't appear in some book that all the elitists use, therefore, it is incorrect. No one can prove if he said it or not.

[Just A Nobody]

and turning the country over to the Communists. Indeed, many of these nitwits were being paid by Moscow, and working with them,

You can start here...teddy kennedy, jon carry, ramsey clark...look where they are today.

hence they are more desperate... and dangerous.

Yes they are! Our choices are boiling down to communism or islamofacism, all courtesy of the enemy within.

[smonk]

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