Pelosi Calls Bush to Complain of Cheney's Comments on Democrats' Iraq Strategy Wednesday, February 21, 2007 WASHINGTON — ... Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney's comments that the Congressional Democrats' plan for Iraq would "validate the Al Qaeda strategy." snip "You cannot say as the president of the United States, 'I welcome disagreement in a time of war,' and then have the vice president.. go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position...