News So Real it Must Be True
Cheney’s al-Qaeda swipe stings:
House Speaker 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.”
Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney’s comments wrongly questioned critics’ patriotism and ignored Bush’s call for openness on Iraq strategy.
“You cannot say as the president of the United States, ‘I welcome disagreement in a time of war,’ and then have the vice president of the United States 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 of authority is acting against the national security of our country,” the speaker said.
The quarrel began in Tokyo, where Cheney used an interview to criticize Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha, 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.
“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the al Qaeda strategy,” the vice president told ABC News. “The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people … try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.”
Pelosi, at a news conference in San Francisco, said Cheney’s criticism of Democrats was “beneath the dignity of the debate we’re engaged in and a disservice to our men and women in uniform, whom we all support.”
Apparently the president wasn’t home when she called. Or didn’t pick up. Or maybe he was making funny chimp faces at Josh Bolten when Josh Bolten was on the line trying to have a serious conversation with Madame Speaker:
Pelosi said she had tried to reach the president but was only able to get through to White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.
Bolten said he was certain no one was questioning her patriotism or commitment to national security, she told reporters.
“I said to him perhaps when he saw what the vice president said he might have another comment,” Pelosi said.
But this is a very important issue. Pelosi is trying to have a responsible grown-up debate. And here Cheney has the gall to talk about the enemy’s goals. Good Lord, what is this man thinking? What place does the enemy have in any discussion of strategy and tactics?
The lady is protesting a bit much, though. Apparently the only “disagreement” she can tolerate is her own. Got to admire her gall, though to say Cheney’s truth-to-power moment is “beneath the dignity of the debate we’re engaged in and a disservice to our men and women, whom we all support.”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:32 pm on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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February 21st, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Oh come on, Nancy…hell you been in polictics so long…Brass Bra, time.
Of course we know you’re just scoring Kos points, sweetie babes.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:40 pm
No problem, though when John Kerry or Al Gore or Bill Clinton went out of the country and expressed views pretty much agreeing with her own.
Pelosi is a worthless, hypocritical pile of garbage.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Traitors get so hissy when you call them out, dont they?
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:22 am
The Cliff Notes version of comments made by Nancy Peloi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in response to Vice President Dick Cheney’s statement that the Congressional Democrats’ plan for Iraq would “validate the Al Qaeda strategy”:
“WAAAAAAH! He’s being mean!”
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February 22nd, 2007 at 12:32 am
The hypocrisy is simply breathtaking!
I really am getting tired of the whining. Nancy girl has taken on the voice of one of those five-year-olds she’s so fond of trotting out.
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 am
I think the enemy’s goal was to get our troops out of Saudi Arabia.
Which Bush was nice enough to agree to.
Getting us to topple a secular dictator was just gravy for Osama.
A twofer.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 am
VIDEO: Cheney says Dem ’slow bleed’ plan would “validate the Al Qaeda strategy”
The harsh reality:
So painful, in fact, that la Pelosi has put in a call to the WH to voice her displeasure over the Cheney’s blunt talk about inconvenient truths.
Hat tip: Gateway Pundit
Also blogging about this: Dan Riehl, Jules Crittenden, …
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 am
alphie:
Yeah, reality is whatever the enemy of our country tells you it is, right?
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 am
Ramadi Shaykhs in No Hurry to See Americans Leave
“He says, yeah, so, Vietnam beat the Americans, and what did it get them? You know, 30 years later, theyre still living in poverty.”
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 am
Oh how nice Jules, you have a pet, on the Blog..is it a SHITsu, I mean Shih Tzu?
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:33 am
I wouldn’t call Cheney an enemy of our country, Grimmy.
Just a frustrated old man who’s been wrong about everything.
His little tatrum is understandable.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 am
Nah, Cid, its a big warty toad, full of single-toned toady croaks and not an original bone in its slimy green gelatinous body. A bore of a pet with no entertainment value whatsoever. Makes Miranda Divide look like the Einstein of trolls.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:11 am
a real sophisticate there, aint ya alphie.
We’ve still got military presents in Saudi.
And even in your enemy sympathizing heart, you know that Iraq had ample ties to terrorism and was run by an alround bad guy that had to go.
Your own toughtmasters were telling you just that up until it became all about bushilter hating.
You might want to look up the word “adhere” and get a good definition and then read the Constitution Article 3 section 3.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:26 am
I don’t hate Bush, Grimmy.
I kinda pity him. A decent guy nowhere near up to the task he was handed.
Iraq isn’t about personalities or ideology, it’s about failure.
America’s a capitalist society and we won’t keep pouring money into a losing venture.
It’s not personal, it’s business.
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:58 am
New Surrendercrat Strategy: Betray The Troops — Update 10
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February 22nd, 2007 at 5:24 am
LOL yeah, right alphie. Failure because …. who said so? It’s not all wrapped up and done quick enough for your liking therefore it’s all for nothing and a failure?
You are compromised there boyo. You are simply regurgitating the propaganda of our enemy and those of our own domestic citizens that support that enemy.
The only force on this planet that can defeat our military is the American citizen betrayer.
No society, culture or civilization has survived while allowing betrayal by its own citizens during a time of war. Most in this country get that at about the same level they understand that crapping all over themselves while seated at a dining table in a restaurant is a bad idea. It’s one of those things that you either understand without having to be told, or are incapable of understanding.
The day of retribution will come. It may come long after you and I both have passed on to whatever next but it will come and those that have bought into the trendy game of supporting the goals of our enemy will be made to pay the traditional price.
Oh, and I do apologize for my initial hostility, beyond what I normally give to those who so quickly identify themselves as among those adhering to enemy propaganda. I had you confused with an old dance partner that went by the screeny of ralphie. Me and him were already long past the polite stage of such conversations.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 am
I think the enemy’s goal was to get our troops out of Saudi Arabia.
Quite correct, alphie. Osama bin Laden (who is the titular head of Al Quaeda) titled his 1998 fatwa “Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places”, and says exactly that.
Glad to see that you agree AQ and all of its associated Islamic terrorist groups are the enemy. That’s a step in the right direction!
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:11 pm
“Bolten said he was certain no one was questioning her patriotism”
Cheney was not questioning her patriotism, he was questioning her IQ. She proved that it is low.
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm
alphie:
You are so pathetic. I realize that most lefties spent the 90’s doing dope and day trading but if you had been paying attention you might have noticed that back in 98 Zawhiri said that all good Muslims must kill Americans because of our oppression of the sons of Iraq. I keep hearing how Saddam was secular and AlQaida is religious and the twain shall never meet, but when push came to shove time and again the jighadis were there for good old Saddam, their buddy, their pal, their benefactor.
February 22nd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
As for Pelosi she sounds like a whiney cry baby. For years I have been listening to the loyal opposition call Bush and the rest of his neocons and most of his supporters all kinds of names. They have been vicious and personal and obnoxious…but when their delicate sensibilities are offended they expect everyone else to kiss their butts. Screw em I say.
February 24th, 2007 at 4:19 am
“Iraq isn’t about personalities or ideology, it’s about failure.”
True, like the failure of Baathists (e.g. Saddam, Usay, Qusay) and terrorists (Abu Abbas, Zarqawi) to continue breathing.
Also, it’s about the failure of anti-war clowns to keep us from killing them.
For the rest of us, the war in Iraq is about as successful as it gets.