Posted on 02/23/2007 6:05:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Cheney won't take back Pelosi comment
24 minutes ago
Vice President Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)'s opposition to President Bush's Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of the al-Qaida terrorist network.
"If you're going to advocate a course of action that basically is withdrawal of our forces from Iraq, then you don't get to just do the fun part of that, that says, 'We'll, we're going to get out,' and appeal to your constituents on that basis," Cheney said.
The vice president had voiced the same criticism of Pelosi earlier this week during a visit to Japan, and the California Democrat accused the vice president of questioning her patriotism, saying she was going to call President Bush directly with her complaint.
"I hope the president will repudiate and distance himself from the vice president's remarks," Pelosi said. She ended up talking with White House chief of staff Josh Bolten instead of Bush.
The long-distance quarrel began in Tokyo, where Cheney earlier this week used an interview to criticize Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), D-Pa., over their plan to place restrictions on Bush's request for an additional $93 billion for the Iraq war to make it difficult or impossible to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq.
During Friday's interview in Sydney, Cheney said, "I'm not sure what part of it is that Nancy disagreed with. She accused me of questioning her patriotism. I didn't question her patriotism. I questioned her judgment."
"You also have to be accountable for the results. What are the consequences of that? What happens if we withdraw from Iraq?," he said. "And the point I made and I'll make it again is that al-Qaida functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy, that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we'll quit and go home. And my statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that then we will validate the strategy of al-Qaida. I said it and I meant it."
Asked if he was willing to take back his criticism of Pelosi, Cheney replied, "I'm not backing down."
Who says he should take it back, and WHY should he - nothing in his statement is incorrect, and the cowards in the democratic party damn well know it!
Wassa mada Nancy? Truth hurt?
I love Dick Cheney.
If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that howls is the one that was hit.
I have yet to see how this statement by the Vice President questions Pelosi's patriotism. Napolitano on Brian and the Judge yesterday kept saying as much, but Cheney's statement does no such thing. Cheney simply says that Pelosi's position, if it were to be adopted, would have the exact result that Al-Qaeda wants.
Little Nancy is out of her league.
Is that a real (undoctored) picture of Pelosi (on the right, I mean)? Wow! yuck.
Cheney rocks ping!
This demanding of apologies is only dignified by the fact that the media is all over it. Otherwise it's just plain stupid, weak and lame. Feigned indignation for political gain.
I WANT the media to overplay Pelosi.....AND REID!!
Media play = validation to liberals and fence sitters.
I can't think of anything that would send the dems over the edge faster than for Dick Cheney to announce he is running for POTUS!!! LOL
Napalitano is a lib.
Good for him!
Maybe W should just resign and let Nancy-pants deal with President Cheney,
"You also have to be accountable for the results. What are the consequences of that? What happens if we withdraw from Iraq?," he said. "And the point I made and I'll make it again is that al-Qaida functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy, that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we'll quit and go home. And my statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that then we will validate the strategy of al-Qaida. I said it and I meant it."
I love this guy.
what a great line!!!!!!
Judge Napolitano is INSANE!! He told BOR that the ANS judge was perfectly NORMAL and did nothing wrong! Napolitano is UNWATCHABLE!
here is what a politician should be , not the knee shaking and nyslimes loving imposters we have now
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