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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on conflicting news reports about the intentions of the White House and General David Petraeus to withdraw one brigade next year or to maintain the current troop level in Iraq.  Below her statement is a fact sheet on Iraq’s high level of violence and lack of political reconciliation: “Recent reports – the National Intelligence Estimate, and the GAO and Jones Commission reports – all document the widespread failure of the Iraqi government to meet critical political reform benchmarks set by President Bush himself in January. “The stay-the-course strategy by...

The Reviews Are In: Thompson's Roll Out Falls Flat Former lobbyist turned Senator, turned actor Fred Thompson is facing the sting of critics the day after a lackluster roll out of his delayed campaign for the GOP nomination. After only one day of attempting to woo voters in Iowa with his down-home routine, Thompson's performance evoked words like, boring, unimpressive, rambling, whimper, small, pathetic and low energy. Coinciding with yesterday's poor performance were stories about a Thompson aide chiding the role of Iowa's "first in the nation" status as well as news that Thompson accepted donations from a family charged...

By RYAN LENZ Associated Press Writer New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions. The documents, released by the American Civil Liberties Union ahead of a lawsuit, total nearly 10,000 pages of courts-martial summaries, transcripts and military investigative reports about 22 incidents. They show repeated examples of soldiers believing they were within the law when they killed local citizens. The killings include the drowning of a man soldiers pushed from a bridge into...

Dean: Republicans Have A Long Way to Go Before They've Cleaned Up the Culture of Corruption Washington, DC - Echoing comments made this morning, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement regarding the Republican Culture of Corruption. From the unconscionable cover-up of Mark Foley's actions that put our children in harms way, to Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham's abuses of office for personal gain, to the allegations against Tom DeLay involving a lobbying scandal that forced him to resign, to Jack Abramoff's illegal lobbying that landed him in jail, to a corruption investigation involving Ted Stevens, to...

September 4, 2007 Reid: This Work Period, Democrats Will Continue To Fight For Responsible End To War And Invest In America's Priorities Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the floor of the U.S. Senate today outlined the Democrats’ agenda for the new work period: “Before I begin my remarks on the Fall calendar, I would like to say a few words about two of our most distinguished colleagues – Senators John Warner and Edward Kennedy. Last week, Senator Warner announced that he will not seek re-election when his term ends in 2008. Senator Warner’s career in public service began...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 09/04/2007 Pelosi: GAO Report Latest Assessment to Conclude That Iraqis Have Failed to Meet Political Benchmarks Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the General Accounting Report on Iraq, which shows that Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 required benchmarks for political and military progress: “The independent GAO report released today contrasts sharply with President Bush’s stay-the-course Iraq The GAO report is the latest in a series of assessments to conclude that the Iraqi government has failed to meet nearly every...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/28/2007 Pelosi: President’s Iraq Policy Is Failing to Reduce the Threat of Terrorism in the Middle East Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this afternoon on President Bush’s remarks today to the American Legion in Reno, Nevada. Below her statement is a fact sheet on Iraq: “The President’s assertion that his escalation has been fully operational for two and a half months misses the point. American men and women have been fighting and dying in Iraq for nearly four and a half years. After all that...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/27/2007 Pelosi: ‘Resignation of Attorney General Gonzales Is Long Overdue’ Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: “The resignation of Attorney General Gonzales is long overdue. The rampant politicization of federal law enforcement that occurred under his tenure seriously eroded public confidence in our justice system. “The President must now restore credibility to the office of the Attorney General. Given the serious loss of public trust and the disarray at the Department of Justice, the American people must...

Hillary Clinton: President Bush Has Launched 'War on Science' Monday , August 27, 2007 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Sen. Hillary Clinton said Monday that President Bush's approach to health care, including in his spending and research priorities, has resulted in a "war that has been waged by this administration against science." "It's not only in their budget priorities. I mean, think about it: The two priorities of this president have been the war in Iraq and tax cuts for the wealthy, neither of which he's paid for, while he has cut the budgets for the National Institutes of Health and...

Tammy Lynn Michaels ought to wash her mouth out with soap. The lesbian "wife" of rocker Melissa Etheridge calls President Bush "an idiotic, parasitical, country-raping piece of [bleep]" on her blog, HollywoodFarm Girl. "How does Laura [Bush] lay her head down at night?" Michaels' constructive and civil rant goes on to call Karl Rove a "sweaty little piggish Oompa-Loompa Elmer Fudd ass." And if the ad ministration doesn't like her hate-filled profanity, she taunts, "Come arrest me, you [bleep]ers."

President Bush has executed the "wrong war at the wrong time" and is now trying to justify staying in Iraq by falsely comparing withdrawal from there with U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, according to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "In an attempt to justify his stay-the-course strategy in Iraq, President Bush is offering false lessons from history," Pelosi said in a statement Wednesday. Her remarks were in response to Bush's claim, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, that "seeing the Iraqis through as they build their democracy is critical to keeping the American people safe from...

08/22/2007 Kerry Statement on Bush Speech to the VFW FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 22, 2007 CONTACTS: Amy Brundage/Vincent Morris, 202-224-4159 BOSTON – Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) today made the following statement in response to the speech today by President Bush to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri in which the President invoked comparisons to the Vietnam War to defend his war policy: “Invoking the tragedy of Vietnam to defend the failed policy in Iraq is as irresponsible as it is ignorant of the realities of both of those wars,” Senator Kerry said. “Half of the soldiers whose...

Reid: NIE Highlights Need For Urgent Change In Iraq Policy Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today, following the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq: “Today’s National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq confirms what most Americans already know: Our troops are mired in an Iraqi civil war and the President’s escalation strategy has failed to produce the political results he promised to our troops and the American people. Our troops have done everything asked of them and more. Unfortunately Iraq’s leaders have not. And as today’s NIE makes clear, a political solution is extremely unlikely...

Democrats Wednesday strongly rejected President Bush’s comparison of the Vietnam War to the conflict in Iraq, saying that drawing parallels is inaccurate and irresponsible.

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/22/2007 Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Speech on Iraq Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement in response to President Bush’s remarks today at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Kansas City: “In an attempt to justify his stay-the-course strategy in Iraq, President Bush is offering false lessons from history. The American people have already judged the President’s war in Iraq as the wrong war at the wrong time, and are ready for our troops to come home. “Whatever improvements in security that may have...

Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/21/2007 Pelosi: 'Once Again, President Is Trying to Throw America's Children Off Health Insurance Rolls' Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today opposing the new conditions the Bush Administration has imposed on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which will make it more difficult for states to extend health coverage to children in middle-income families: "While Republicans always talk about the importance of state flexibility and letting states make decisions, their actions are quite the opposite. Once again, President Bush is trying to throw America's...

DEMOCRATS, liberal historians and even a majority of U.S. voters already consider George W. Bush a "failed" or "poor" president - in fact, perhaps, "the worst president in American history."

Heroes are meant to be imitated. Nicole Richie's admirers look like chopsticks with hair, while David Beckham's fans strut around in cleats looking for the perfect plastic lady to bear the children they will then name after the places in which they were conceived (in these parts: Cowgirl's Inc., Lynnwood, Peso's, etc.). As a kid, I went through a brief phase of trying to be Hello Kitty. I tried to sculpt my hair into strange, high pigtails and copped a blank stare, arms hanging at sides, head always turned to the side. My classmates found it creepy, so I dropped...

Reid: Administration Owes Congress, American People An Honest Report On Iraq in September Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to reports that the White House would like to limit what the American people are told in the September progress reports on Iraq: “The White House’s effort to prevent General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker from testifying openly and candidly before Congress about the situation in Iraq is unacceptable. Not only does it contradict the law President Bush himself signed in May, but it appears to be yet another politically driven attempt to avoid giving...

Congressional Democrats are demanding yet another investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney and White House Political Advisor Karl Rove. Upon hearing the news that former Cuba Leader Fidel Castro was dead yet again, Congressional Democrats are demanding an investigation. Congressional Democrats want to know the whereabouts of both men on August 7th when Castro was reportedly on his deathbed. "The American People need to know were Cheney and Rove were on that day," said an aide close to House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers. "We know that Cheney and Rove have access to a SR-71 Blackbird and we refuse to allow...