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Bush Administration In State Of Denial According to Bob Woodward's new book on the Bush Administration's bungling of the war on terror and their failed Iraq policies, "State of Denial," the Bush Administration ignored warnings of Al Qaeda attacks prior to 9/11. Woodward chronicled how the White House continues to hide the true number of attacks on American soldiers in Iraq and also the attempts to have Defense Secretary Rumsfeld fired for his inept policies and disregard for post-war planning in Iraq. The Bush Administration is in a "State of Denial" on 9/11 Rice Ignored Warnings From the CIA that...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 03, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on Senator Frist’s Comments on the Taliban in Afghanistan Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on Senate Majority Leader Bill First’s comments that the Taliban should be included in the government in Afghanistan: “We went to war in Afghanistan five years ago to crush the Taliban for the role it played in the 9/11 attacks. Senator Frist now suggests that the best way forward in Afghanistan is to coddle the Taliban by welcoming Taliban members into a coalition government, as...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 02, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on Speaker’s Comments Regarding Foley Matter Washington, D.C. –House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on Speaker Hastert's press conference on the Republican cover up of the inappropriate e-mails Mark Foley sent to an underage former House Page: “Speaker Hastert again failed to answer the question that every mother and father in America is asking: how could Republican Leaders choose partisan politics over protecting children? “Republican Leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley’s abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to protect...

Pelosi: 'President's Speech This Morning Showed Once Again He is in Denial' 9/29/2006 2:17:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616; both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi held a news conference this morning with Representatives Ike Skelton (D-Mont.), ranking member, House Armed Services Committee, John Murtha (D-Pa.), ranking member, House Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, and Jane Harman (D- Calif.), ranking member, House Intelligence Committee, in response to the speech President Bush gave on the war on terror in Washington, D.C. Below...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi: ‘War in Iraq Is Making it Harder for America to Fight and Win the War on Terror’ Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the New York Times report on an April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate which concluded that the war in Iraq was making the war on terror more difficult to fight and win. “The news report on the National Intelligence Estimate is further proof that the war in Iraq is making it harder for America to fight and win...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi: Voter ID Bill Is an Attempt to Suppress the Votes of Millions of American Citizens Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in opposition to H.R. 4844, the Republican voter suppression bill. Below are Pelosi’s remarks: “‘This cannot be.’ With those words, Judge Jackson Bedford yesterday struck down the infamous Georgia voter photo ID law. Let me repeat: ‘This cannot be.’ Let these words guide us here, because right here in this House of Representatives, we take an oath to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 19, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Speech at the United Nations Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s speech at the United Nations in New York: “It is one thing to give a speech about promoting peace, freedom, and democracy in broad, general terms as President Bush did at the United Nations today. It is another to commit to doing the hard work of diplomacy on a daily basis to resolve matters such as Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Syria’s support for Hezbollah,...

Dean on Bush's Speech to the UN 9/19/2006 1:28:00 PM To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Stacie Paxton or Mark Paustenbach, 202-863-8148, both of the Democratic National Committee WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement on President Bush's address today to the United Nations General Assembly in New York: "Today we heard more of the same rhetoric from a desperate President Bush who is worried more about his party's political prospects this November than about how to protect America and fight and win the real war on terror. The president's freedom...

Pelosi: 'Midterm Elections Are a Referendum on Bush and Republicans' Failed Economic Policies' 9/15/2006 2:10:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; http://democraticleader.house.gov WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to remarks President Bush made at a White House press conference today that he hopes the midterms elections are based on economic performance: "The upcoming midterm elections are a referendum on the failed economic policies of President Bush and Republicans that are leaving middle-class families...

"The war in Iraq is the wrong war. No matter how many times the president wants to say it, the war in Iraq is not the war on terror. The war in Afghanistan was." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made that comment Wednesday in a speech on the House floor. She was blasting a Republican resolution marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Pelosi says Republicans have introduced a partisan and "congratulatory" resolution: "It praises Congress for some reason," Pelosi complained. "Instead of having the focus on the innocent victims of 9/11, it talks about the accomplishments of...

News From the Democratic Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Democratic Leadership Joined by Former Secretary of State Albright, General Wesley Clark, former NSA Brzezinski, Call for a New Direction on Security 9/13/2006 11:42:00 AM To: National Desk Contact: Brendan Daly, Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616 both for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Jim Manley, Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939 both for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid asserted Democratic leadership on national security today in a meeting with former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, former Supreme Allied...

Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Speech on Fifth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks Washington, D.C.– House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s speech last night on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: “On the fifth anniversary of September 11, President Bush continued to try to justify the invasion of Iraq by drawing nonexistent links to the 9/11 attacks. To try to make partisan gain out of such tragedy dishonors all those we lost on September 11. “In fact, the war in Iraq has made our effort to defeat terrorism and terrorists more difficult. Last...

DNC: Nearly 200,000 Americans Agree, ABC Needs to Pull the Plug on Slanderous Propaganda Film 9/8/2006 4:59:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Stacie Paxton of the DNC Press Office, 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, the Democratic National Committee delivered a petition signed by close to 200,000 Americans to the ABC offices in Washington urging the network to pull the plug on "The Path to 9/11," the five hour propaganda video it plans to air Sunday and Monday night. The DNC organized the petition drive when it became clear this week that the network was prepared to ignore...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the Bush Administration's admission that they have failed to serve local law enforcement: "The police chiefs are right: Severe Republican funding cutbacks to local law enforcement and the COPS program have led to increased crime. "The Bush Administration, through the Deputy Attorney General, today admitted that 'there are many needs and desires on the part of law enforcement that we have not been able to serve well.' "In fact, the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress have cut $2.2 billion from state and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on Rumsfeld Remarks Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to Secretary Rumsfeld’s remarks he made yesterday to the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City: "Secretary Rumsfeld's efforts to smear critics of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy are a pathetic attempt to shift the public's attention from his repeated failure to manage the conduct of the war competently. If Mr. Rumsfeld is so concerned with comparisons to World War II, he should explain why our troops have now been...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi: Census Report Shows Bush Economics Has Failed the Middle Class and Working Families Washington, D.C.–House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in response to today’s Census Bureau report: “This new Census report provides ample evidence that President Bush’s economic policies of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy and massive budget deficits have failed the American people. The so-called economic recovery has been so anemic that it is unprecedented. Yet just last week, the President said: ‘Things are good for American workers.’ This report clearly shows otherwise....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Comments on Iraq Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s comments on Iraq at a news conference this morning at the White House: "President Bush should have given more thought to the consequences of a failed state in Iraq before he launched his ill-advised invasion almost three and a half years ago. He did not have a plan for preventing chaos in Iraq when the war started. The mounting death toll in Baghdad and elsewhere...

GOP Has Made America Less Safe The failed policies of Washington Republicans continue to make America less safe. As recently as this morning, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman used misleading rhetoric to cover up the fact that Republicans have consistently blocked Democratic attempts to make our country secure. And, the latest polls continue to show that the American people are dissatisfied with the President and his party on a number of issues and want Democratic leadership in Congress. “Whenever the Republican Party is in political crisis they fall back on their well adapted strategy of ‘fear and smear’ to try to...

Dean: President Bush Is Not Doing His Job On Defense Or Domestically 8/13/2006 12:15:00 PM To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Karen Finney of DNC Press Office, 202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- This morning DNC Chairman Howard Dean appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press." The interview covered a wide range of topics from Washington Republicans' failed defense and domestic policies, to the war on the middle class and the need for a new direction in America. Below are excerpts from Governor Dean's appearance: Republicans Have Failed America "...I think President Bush is not doing his job on defense...

Reid Statement on British Terror Plot 8/10/2006 11:54:00 AM To: National Desk Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939, both for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement on the British terror plot: "I commend British authorities for defusing this terror plot and apprehending the suspects. Their actions protected the lives of innocent civilians, including many American citizens. Today's events are an important reminder that we need to renew our focus on the war on terror and to continue to work with our allies to protect Americans...