Crediting our enemies with the success of our troops and our Iraqi allies – that does go entirely too far:
In an interview yesterday with the San Francisco Chronicle, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed the U.S. troop surge failed to accomplish its goal. She then partially credited the success of the troop surge to “the goodwill of the Iranians,” claiming that they were responsible for ending violence in the southern city of Basra.
Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded:
Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.
This is an inexcusable slander. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki brought the Sadrists militias to their knees in a month-long battle that enabled Iraq’s largest Sunni bloc to rejoin the government. Furthermore, when Pelosi met with Prime Minister al-Maliki in Mosul she sang quite a different tune. She had “welcomed Iraq’s progress in passing a budget as well as oil legislation, and a bill paving the way for the provincial elections in the fall that are expected to more equitably redistribute power among local officials,” and stated, “We’re assured the elections will happen here, they will be transparent, they will be inclusive and they will take Iraq closer to the reconciliation we all want it to have.”
Discounting the success of the American military, denying the accomplishments of U.S. allies, and giving the credit to our most dangerous enemies seems like an especially productive week for a Democrat on Capitol Hill. After Nancy Pelosi’s post-Iraq hat trick, there’s really no need for Barack Obama to make this trip after all.
If Pelosi had an ounce of honor in her body – and ounce, that is, of genuine patriotism for the United States of America – she would immediately apologise to our troops, our Iraqi allies and then she’d resign her position. The US and Iraqi militaries are the reason peace is coming to Iraq, not the benevolence of the lunatics who govern Iran, and who are responsible for the deaths of very many Americans and Iraqis. This is not honest dissent, this is treasonous. Al-Qaeda has its back to the wall, Syria is talking a separate peace with Israel and Iran finds itself isolated, having angered the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and having nothing to show for all their efforts over the past 5 years…Pelosi’s statement is, in a way, giving aid and comfort to our enemies; what she said is akin to saying that the Nazis deserve credit for our liberation of Rome in 1944 because they chose to withdraw rather than fight for the city…if there is anything which will keep the enemy fighting in their hopeless cause it is the belief that the Democrats will come in and be the “weak horse” they expected us to be all along.
If anyone out there needed a reason to fight hard to defeat the Democrats in 2008, here it is – a Democratic victory in November will elevate into complete power that very 60’s radicalism which nearly destroyed this nation 40 years ago, and which is bound and determined to have another shot at wrecking the country. People like Pelosi act the part of traitor, even if they don’t know it (and my bet is that 90% of them really don’t know it – so entirely ignorant of their own ideological background are they); we can’t afford to have this mindset in power.
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