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Pelosi Calls Iraq War 'Grotesque Mistake'
Newsday (AP) ^ | September 25, 2004, 11:29 AM EDT | ELIZABETH WOLFE

Posted on 09/25/2004 9:08:34 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday called the war in Iraq a "grotesque mistake" that has not made the United States safer. Giving her party's weekly radio address, the California congresswoman said President Bush's decision to invade Iraq has siphoned resources and attention away from the broader war on terror and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. "We would be much safer today if President Bush had kept his focus on al-Qaida, rather than diverting crucial resources from the war on terror in Afghanistan to a war of choice in Iraq," she said, echoing recent comments by Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. "This war has been a grotesque mistake that has diminished our reputation in the world and has not made America safer," she said. On the same note, Kerry said Friday that Bush's policies have "let Osama bin Laden slip away." Bush calls Iraq the front line in the war on terror and in his re-election campaign has cast himself as the more steady leader who would keep the country safer. Elsewhere in her broadcast, Pelosi criticized congressional Republicans who have shown support for a new national sales tax, which she said would hurt the middle class. "Wealthy corporate interests would get a windfall, and the middle class would get the bill," she said. Bush has said that in a second term he would work to simplify the federal income tax, and he and other Republicans insist it is Kerry who would increase Americans' taxes. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., called for a national sales tax or consumption-based tax in a recent book. But Bush's suggestion this summer that a national sales tax is worth serious consideration drew a backlash from Democrats and many Republicans, and the idea was quickly discarded.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
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Body Dysmorphic (Excessive plastic surgery and botox) Nancy Pelosi is the last person on earth to use the word "grotesque."
1 posted on 09/25/2004 9:08:34 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: FormerACLUmember

LOL!


2 posted on 09/25/2004 9:09:28 AM PDT by VOA
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To: FormerACLUmember

And Pelosi knows "grotesque".


3 posted on 09/25/2004 9:09:29 AM PDT by Drango (PJs? Never. FReep in the "Buff")
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To: FormerACLUmember

Lazamataz Calls Nancy Pelosi 'Grotesque Mistake'


4 posted on 09/25/2004 9:09:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Oh no.. now she's thinking she's the Queen, uttering from her high throne. She's another Humpty Dumpty.


5 posted on 09/25/2004 9:10:29 AM PDT by Alia
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To: FormerACLUmember

MISTAKE --- Don't look in the mirror when talking.


6 posted on 09/25/2004 9:11:32 AM PDT by snooker (French Fried Flip Flopper still Flouncing, be careful out there.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Pelosi Galore spewing the vile hatred of GW that ensures her re election by the Gay maggot capitol, San Francisco.


7 posted on 09/25/2004 9:12:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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The Dems think they've got a winning message in trashing the Iraq war.

Don't be surprised if Bush's numbers take a hit in the next week, until after the debates.

8 posted on 09/25/2004 9:12:29 AM PDT by sinkspur ("John Kerry's gonna win on his juices. "--Cardinal Fanfani)
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To: FormerACLUmember

So she named her face "Iraq War"?


9 posted on 09/25/2004 9:13:34 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Lazamataz; All
Kerry's Spanish Strategy

The democrat party has adopted the "Spanish Strategy" (my term), synchronizing and linking all their remaining efforts to coordinate with a pre-election al Queda terror attack on the US. They hopes to replicate the come-from-behind victory of the Spanish leftists, after the pre-election mass bombings of rush hour Madrid commuter trains by the IslamoFascists.

Kerry has (as all Presidential Candidates have) top secret homeland security inside information which details the obvious risks about an al Queda attack in the days before the general election on November 2, 2004.

He has focused all of his campaign negative energies on Iraq, bad mouthing our presence there and the democratic new government. This is self-serving and evil, but it does represent a rational political position on Kerry's part, positioning himself as the antiwar candidate. This might assure victory to an otherwise failing campaign, if public sentiment turns against the war efforts after a late October terrorist attack.

10 posted on 09/25/2004 9:13:34 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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Why do Democrats always adopt the rhetoric of the enemy?

I can't seem to understand this phenomenon. Can someone help me out?


11 posted on 09/25/2004 9:13:52 AM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: FormerACLUmember

"Minority Leader" says it all, especially with a Republican president!


12 posted on 09/25/2004 9:14:36 AM PDT by JrAsparagus
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To: FormerACLUmember

Remeber when 'Snake Oil' Carville put that trash can over his head on CNN after the last election? We need to see if we can get Pelosi to throw one over her 'grostesque mistake' after this next one.


13 posted on 09/25/2004 9:15:24 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Don't make me roll initiative...!)
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Yeah sure Peloser, tell that to all the beaten, oppressed, burqua clad women and children. Seriously, is there some factory churning out these Teresa Pelosi android clones?
14 posted on 09/25/2004 9:15:28 AM PDT by SunnySide
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"Why do Democrats always adopt the rhetoric of the enemy?"

Because they are the enemy. How else can it be explained?


15 posted on 09/25/2004 9:15:59 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: SunnySide

Talk about calling the kettle black


16 posted on 09/25/2004 9:16:02 AM PDT by Two-Bits (I am voting in memory for those that can not vote since 9/11! Vote George W Bush)
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To: SunnySide

Post 14: I just hurled. And this is a defocused GOOD picture of this vicious, evil hag.


17 posted on 09/25/2004 9:16:33 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: SunnySide

God, she's hot....


18 posted on 09/25/2004 9:16:33 AM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

"Congresscritter, I know grotesque.... and your are grotesque", to paraphrase another Dim bulb.


19 posted on 09/25/2004 9:17:16 AM PDT by madrastex
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To: SunnySide

Does she look like a deer in the headlights or what?


20 posted on 09/25/2004 9:17:25 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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