Posted on 05/06/2007 11:06:45 AM PDT by Starman417
In a new video posted today on the Internet, al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al Zawahiri, mocks the bill passed by Congress setting a timetable for the pullout of U.S. troops in Iraq.Yet according to politicians like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Iraq is not the central front in the War on Terror, and we should be fighting terrorists in Afghanistan. Just to pick one statement, at random, from Reid:"This bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap," Zawahiri says in answer to a question posed to him an interviewer.
Continuing in the same tone, Zawahiri says, "We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed, in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson."
each day we stay the course in Iraq further weakens our fight against terrorism and other threats throughout the world. -Statement issued by Senate Majority Leader, Harry ReidAs Larry Kudlow points out, our terrorist enemies are in Iraq. Victory in Iraq matters. It has become the central-front on the global war against Islamic militants, devoted to violent Jihad against the West, and all those- including Muslims- who oppose their radical ideology of intolerance and hatred. And a random pick from Nancy Pelosi out of many such statements that shows a lack of up-to-date understanding of the fight we are in today:
It calls for the strategic redeployment of U.S. combat troops by the end of 2007 or sometime in 2008.Even Lawrence Kaplan writing for the liberal New Republic recognizes the woeful nature of our Congressional Democrats who would have us "change the course" from a position of ignorance:“Only then can we refocus our military efforts on Afghanistan to the extent that we must. We must direct our attention there now. We must do it more intensely after we have redeployed the troops. So refocusing our military efforts on Afghanistan and fighting the war on terrorism where it began, where it is a challenge, and where, because we left, it is an unfinished and nearly forgotten war, the terrorists have had an opportunity to reemerge.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, 03/08/07, at a press conference with other senior Democrats regarding the military funding bill, the Supporting Our Troops, Veterans' Health and Iraq Accountability Act
Maybe it was a slip of the tongue. But, when Nancy Pelosi confessed last year that she felt "sad" about President Bush's claims that Al Qaeda operates in Iraq, she seemed to be disputing what every American soldier in Iraq, every Al Qaeda operative, and anyone who reads a newspaper already knew to be true. (When I questioned him about Pelosi's assertion, a U.S. officer in Ramadi responded, incredulously, that Al Qaeda had just held a parade in his sector.) Perhaps the House speaker was alluding to the discredited claim that Al Qaeda operated in Iraq before the war. Perhaps. But the insinuation that Al Qaeda's depredations in Iraq might be something other than what they appear to be has become a staple of the congressional debate over Iraq. Thus, to buttress his own case for withdrawal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "We have to change course [away from Iraq] and turn our attention back to the war on Al Qaeda and their allies"--the clear message being that neither plays much of a role there....Read more here...(really, it's an extraordinary piece; all the sweeter, coming from a liberal writer)
Astonishing, even, how Harry Reid can hijack a statement by David Petraeus, distorting it out of context to support his own ignorance; and within the same interview, when asked by CNN's Dana Bash if Petraeus, who was scheduled to come to the Hill the next day to brief lawmakers, were to give testimony that the troop escalation was having a positive effect, would the Senate Majority Leader believe him if he said that, Harry Reid, said flat-out, "No." Thus showing why the Senate Majority Leader is also the acting Senator of the great State of Denial.
Other Democrats who seem to have a hell of a lot to say on foreign policy matters, wouldn't even give General Petraeus the time of day (you know Petraeus...that "guy" who the Senate unanimously voted for, to become the new commander in Iraq? To spearhead a change of strategy so that we may "stay the course" to win, while they lose); they apparently had more important things to do than to listen to what the good general had to report, while the fate of the civilized world hangs on the edge of a knife (yes, they support the troops who they authorized to go to war; kind of in the same manner in which they support the general who they voted to take over said war). Hot Air points out that they did the same thing to the general on March 8th when Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats chose not to attend a Pentagon video conference with General Petraeus; and April 9th, when only one Democratic Senator attended a video conference progress report by General Petraeus. Is it any wonder, then, that Democratic leaders are still waging yesterday's arguments? And dictating policy-directives from a position of ignorance?
I guess that's just how they roll.
This reminds me of the classic line from “Star Wars”, “I suggest a new strategy, let the woki win!” Since we cannot match the terrorist in viciousness, let the terrorist win.
this is a great thread. too bad only two replies. BTTT.
The thing is, Reid and Pelosi really don’t have much more credibility than that of this al-queda leader, all of them lie for politcal reasons that enable terrorism.
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on more time, with feeling!
BUMP! ;o)
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