Posted on 05/21/2004 6:47:42 AM PDT by jmstein7
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered an attack aimed at President Bush both in a Capitol Hill news conference and in an interview given to her hometown newspaper Thursday afternoon.
Pelosi's remarks stood in sharp contrast with those of the president who made a trip to Capitol Hill yesterday to deliver a message meant to rally Republican lawmakers.
"I believe that the president's leadership and the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment, and experience," Pelosi told reporters gathered to hear her remarks.
"This president should have known ... when you decide to go to war you have to know what the consequences of your action are and how you can accomplish the mission," Pelosi said.
The House Democratic leader added, "There was plenty of intelligence to say there would be chaos in Iraq following the fall of Baghdad."
"The results of his action are what undermine his leadership, not my statements," she said. "The emperor has no clothes. When are people going to face the reality?"
In a separate interview granted to the San Francisco Chronicle, Rep. Pelosi went even further, saying, "Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he's not a leader. He's a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon."
"Not to get personal about it, but the president's capacity to lead has never been there," Pelosi said.
"In order to lead, you have to have judgment. In order to have judgment, you have to have knowledge and experience. He has none," she added.
Pelosi has long been known for her opposition to the war in Iraq. She joined ten other House Democrats in voting against authorizing the president to use force to disarm Saddam's regime.
Following her vote against the war, she promised that Democrats would stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Bush in the war on terror.
Her lengthy remarks drew sharp responses from Republican spokesmen.
Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot addressed John Kerry, saying, "As leader of the Democratic Party, John Kerry needs to repudiate Nancy Pelosi's efforts to blame American deaths in Iraq on the President. No one is to blame for these deaths in Iraq but the terrorists who are trying to prevent freedom from coming to the Middle East."
In response to Pelosi's remarks, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said, "To angry Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy, terrorists and militia aren't responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers, their commander-in-chief is. And our servicemen and women, in putting torture chambers 'under U.S. management,' are no different than a regime that systematically tortured, raped and killed its own people."
"The San Francisco/Boston Democrats led by John Kerry have now adopted Blame America First as their official policy," Gillespie continued in a statement issued to the press.
In comments published on his web site, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) said, "Mrs. Pelosi has the right to disagree with President Bush, and it is clear that she has a different vision from the President. But her comments questioning the President's competence cross the line."
"We are in the middle of a war and in the middle of a political campaign. Mrs. Pelosi's comments were meant to inspire her political base. But who else do they inspire? That is the question she should ask herself," Hastert continued.
"Her comments are also wrong," Hastert said.
Further, Hastert said, "Was it incompetence that put Saddam Hussein in jail? Was it incompetence that disbanded the Taliban? Was it incompetence that spurred the fastest economic growth rate in twenty years? Was it incompetence that created the highest home ownership rate in history?"
"Nancy Pelosi should apologize for her irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) told CNN. "She apparently is so caught up in partisan hatred for President Bush that her words are putting American lives at risk."
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While you're at it, send a demand to censure Ted Kennedy for similar behavior HERE.
Tell Tom DeLay: Censure Nancy Pelosi For Giving Terrorists Aid and Comfort!!!
"Ole Never Close Her Eyes" is another expert on military affairs.
Tell Tom DeLay: Censure Nancy Pelosi For Giving Terrorists Aid and Comfort!!!
Tell Tom DeLay: Censure Nancy Pelosi For Giving Terrorists Aid and Comfort!!!
Tom 'The Hammer' Delay strikes fear into the 'hearts' of the RATS. That's why that Texas RAT D.A. is going after him so hard. Delay would have to resign his leadership post.
Did anyone hear about the Tom Delay intern sex thing today? They said this intern worked in Tom's office but did not say Delay had any connection.
Pelosi's remarks and viewpoint are presented at length, and in her/their own voice... and then the other perspective is presented the exact same way.
Dan
She said/he said...
Pelosi is scum. During wartime this kind of talk should be considered treason.
Not to get personal about it,
Of course it's personal, Ninny, I mean Nancy. It's time to put panties over her and Ted Kennedy's heads.
BTTT!!!!!!
I agree. We need to refrain from getting personal, you filthy, lying, whorish, liberal imbecile.
Forget abortion. I think people full of hate should be denied communion.
Thanks. Messages sent re Kennedy and Pelosi; also re Rumsfeld.
I can't wait for the day that California slips into the sea. Especially, Sodom, er San Francisco.
It is so easy to hate those people. And they are rats in the truest sense of the word. They are a party that is full of asinine comments, hatred, lies, no morals, anything for power and truly blaming America first. Every extremist group you can think of is the backbone of their support. They are scumbags and just do not stop with their hateful rhetoric. Talk about hate speech, negative. Wasn't Dasshole just denouncing this kind of hate? Of course, they are exactly what they condemn in that department. And Kennedy's line about the US servicemen running the prison Abu Gharib are like Saddam Hussein's rule are typical traitorous, slanderous rhetoric, just like his buddy John F'n Kerry.
INTREP - dimoRAT mindless rantings
az
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