Nancy Pelosi brings out the White Flag again: Iraq withdrawal returns to the House floor
Reprinted by permission of Chip Bok and Creators Syndicate
Code Pink is getting to “Madame Glam” Nancy Pelosi. She announced today that the House will debate Iraq troop withdrawals again:
Democrats controlling the House of Representatives will try again to bring American combat in Iraq to an end when it debates legislation this week tying new war funds to troop withdrawals, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.
The legislation, similar to a bill President George W. Bush vetoed earlier this year, “gives voice to the concerns of the American people” over a war that is now in its fifth year and “with no light at the end of the tunnel,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said.
As early as Friday, the House will debate the plan that would give Bush only $50 billion of the $196 billion in new funds he has asked for to continue fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of the money would go to Iraq.
The House repeatedly this year has passed legislation aimed at ending the Iraq war, only to see it die in the Senate or killed by Bush.
Congress is expected to consider the rest of the funding sometime next year.
Pelosi said the money would fund the war for another four months. But as they have done in the past, House Democrats will try to attach conditions requiring the Pentagon to immediately begin withdrawing some of the 169,000 troops in Iraq and with the goal of completing the withdrawal by December, 2008.
Pelosi sidestepped a reporter’s question on whether congressional support for the idea has grown enough to overturn an inevitable veto by Bush.
Perhaps this is meant to assuage the impeachment mob. You cannot, however, assuage the un-assuageable.
Holding troop funding hostage to the Code Pink agenda. Nice way to usher in Veterans’ Day weekend, eh?
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Brian Faughnan at the Standard: “Anyone think this bill will get the 223 votes that the last surrender measure got?”
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Meantime, Bill Ardolino has interviewed senior military and intelligence officials for a comprehensive round-up explanation of “Why the violence has declined in Iraq.” The conclusion:
Officials are cautiously optimistic about the trends of the last two months, but they are quick to caveat the improvement in security. The long-term danger of an al Qaeda resurgence remains a possibility, as al Qaeda in Iraq remains a significant franchise of the broader terrorist network safely based in Pakistan, which it’s believed will attempt to resupply and redouble its efforts to destabilize Iraq. Officials stress that continued momentum is required to solidify gains, specifically maintained targeting of extremist groups, successful border interdiction, the official employment of a portion of CLCs in the Iraqi Security Forces and, most importantly, a mid-term commitment to American brokerage of reconciliation between the national government and tribal and former insurgent groups
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I’m underwhelmed again. Maybe Princess Nancy will… just… fade away.
Gee Imagine if Billary et al can’t use Iraq as a salient point in their campaign. Maybe they’ll run on issues.
Don’t worry, I just slapped myself upside the head, must have been too much coffee, or air, or something. Issues are not to be discussed around the ‘unwashed’. Elites have their own methods and language.
LOL Uplander. With Billary et all bashing Bush I sometimes think he’s running in ‘08
I think the demoncraps need to disband completely.
There isn’t ONE that’s worth 2 cents and even that is a stretch.
their goal is to try to get the military out before the next President is sworn in. they are soooo dang certain that it will be a Dem that the last thing they want is to have to put their “money where their mouth is” so to say. All this time, they have been saying how badly Bush screwed up and how much better it would be if he wasn’t in office. Well, they are now looking straight down the barrel of a Howitzer and it is making them mess their diapers. Should, God forbid, a Democrat win in 2008, all of a sudden the ball will be in their court, and they know they won’t be able to do all the things they want Bush to do. They know that they will be unable to pull out the troops and end this war..prematurely…and they are scared. That is why the end date in Dec. of 2008. That is why all of Pelosi’s dates are prior to the new guy getting sworn in. They want to say Bush lost the war, totally eliminating the blame from them being the ones that insisted it stop and that they stopped the funding. they want to hang it on the Republicans so that in their mind, it will be a generation before the Republicans ever gain office in any form again.
That is the sick mind and thought process they have. They would hang all of us in the wind to have our enemies do with us what they will if it means a potential win in 2008 and beyond. Sick, anti-American, un-Patriotic, seditious ba&*$$ds every last one of them.
fireman, yep their as transparent as my bay window.
Well Fireman, you must have also been a carpenter cause you hit the nail right on the head.
Pelosi and her kind are an abomination to our great country.
She is a liar and a traitor and I can’t wait for the day she is thrown out of office.
I can not imagine how the minds of these people operate. To say the surge isn’t working when it clearing is, is in iteslf a lie, to pull out is a disgrace to withhold funding for our troops shows such a lack of respect, concern, compassion not only for our troops but our entire country.
My feelings towards her and Reid and the rest can not be put into words but just a feeling beyong disgust and malice.
Oh, and let us not forget to mention that she is calling for the troops to be pulled out the very same day that the NYT buries the story about how Al Quaeda has been routed out of Baghdad. That’s right, AQ has been booted out, running with their tail between their legs out of Baghdad, there have been over 46,000 Iraqis who have returned to their homes in the city and lastly, there is going to be a Sunni/Shia signed fatwa AGAINST violence.
We are winning, the bad guys are losing in a very large way and the violence and killings that hey have perpetrated has had the exact opposite effect that they wanted. Instead of turning the populace against the Americans and Coalition Forces, they turned the populace against them. For the first time, they are uniting the Suniis and the Shia, and they are being united AGAINST the violence caused by AQ. The terrorists are no longer tolerated and as this continues down this path, they will continue to be marginalized and we will, indeed, have a very large ally in the Middle East.
All this while the Dems are still declaring that all is lost, that we cannot win and that Bush has caused nothing but problems in the Middle East.
One thing can be guaranteed. Take whatever a Liberal says and reverse it. The reverse will be what will happen and will be the truth.
Never trust a Dem or a Liberal when it comes to global politics and especially in the defense of this country and the poicies therein.
well, it was a close call but Pelosi beats out rosie for crapweasel of the day, just cuz,
ro dont mata no mo.
never did really…
I love it when a good Bashing comes together.
When Victory is finally achieved, I wonder if Reid will take credit much like he tried to take from Rush raising all that money for our troops.
Holy Carp! that was golden, what a turd burper Reid is.
It just goes to show you. No matter how messed up the republicans get, the dems always manage to top them. I wish one party or the other was at least competent.
aJ- shades of the “A Team”?
all right. let’s watch it!!!
RetFireman: Rant on, brave man. I wonder what happens to Pelosi Galore and Hairless Reid’s staffers who are reading these blogs.
Thick skin is required.
Nicely done.
Tryin to catch up here after being out since around 230 pm PST.
John A: glad you sent it on. We’ll ramp it up as the fit continues to hit the shan with Syria and Iran.
Translation, there’s another round of nutroots fund raising planned.
They’ve blown their last wad on who knows what. Enough time has passed for the Nuts to lose track of their last contribution. So Congressional DemNets head out White Flag in one hand, NutRoots cup in hand, for the next round of handouts.
DrFred- that is an excellent point. The Giant Moon Loon non-profit kicks into gear. Socialism in motion.
As I recall doing this in the 40’s might have gotten you hung from there nearest lightpole OR amount to political suicide…. Now its an acceaptable political tactic. I shudder to think what future generations may be like.
I’ve spent some time attempting to find a qoute that fits this event very well, it was something to the effect of,. “No matter how Terrible war is, and even worse event is when a man and his fellow countrymen would not give there life for anything, and are only concerned with their on comfort and safety.
Yeah we can give up, nothing at all will happen but maybe one or two low level attacks. Ten, Twenty years later? Who knows, maybe a full blown invasion. The course of History can only be looked back on. Not too well predicted.
If at first you don’t pander..pander,pander again..and again..and again.
Besides, its the only card liberals have to play of course they play it over and over.
Here are some of my favorites;
For the appeasers:
“The last capitalist we hang will be the one who sold us the rope.” K.Marx
“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.” Demosthones
For the doubters:
“The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.” Homer
Wouldn’t the troops left behind just be sitting ducks? Our soldiers would be in harms way even more so due to her polical manuevers. So much for caring about our brave men and women.
With the wisdom of pursuing the liberation of Iraq in 2003 still in question and the history still unwritten on whether that offensive to topple Hussein and then the mission change to fighting Al Qaeda on their home turf was the “biggest mistake in US history” or a “justified fight for freedom”, you’d think the media would report that one side is now clearly winning and one side is now clearly losing… http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D676B7BD-DC26-49D3-9F45-12BBF0C4CE0E
Yes. What a wonderful way to honor our troops on the eve of Veterans’ Day. Where else but American could the likes of Pelosi, Reid and their minions try to undermine the very heroes that fight and die to give them such freedoms?
I am coming in late on this, but I remember in AIT at Fort Lee, we had a fundraiser for something or other, and you could buy pies to throw at the Drill Sergeants. As I recall, the bidding got over $100 to throw a pie at the meanest DS.
Go ArmoredCAV! And happy Veteran’s Day to all.
What they really want is a Sedition Dividend.
Afterall, Socialists don’t need a Defense Department.
The Democrat’s other strategy is risk a depression on their way to a recession. Their thought is that the last time we killed the economy, we held the presidency for 20 years. So let’s go protectionist, let’s go pro-union, let’s go high taxes and welfare state.
Meanwhile, pick a city. Imagine life without it. These scoundrals are making that, or worse, possible.
@121 Well do remember the people at work now are what led to our pull out in Vietnam. Do remember after the Tet offensive the VC and NVA were so baddly damaged that they weren’t able to mount an offense till several YEARS after we left. Victory matters not for the sake of peace.
But when you fight a war and play around with it, you verywell won’t win. Sad fact of the matter is the US public has a weak stomach for loss of life in modern times. In the past Iraq’s death toll would be hailed as a victory in it’s self. Hence why we would not win a convential World War again. Even if we are attacked first, recall that forces in DC want us out of Afghanistan. Even in WW2 there was talk before the atomic bombing of peace talks with Japan given the growing unpopularity at home.