Posted on 11/03/2007 3:14:54 PM PDT by mdittmar
She says efforts will be similar, makes no assurance of success
RALEIGH
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, approaching the first anniversary of an election that lifted her party into power based largely on its opposition to the war in Iraq, said yesterday that Democrats will renew efforts to end the conflict with “a repetition of the same.”
Speaking at Meredith College, Pelosi said that Democrats in the House will file a new proposal next week that would withdraw combat troops by the end of 2008. It would restrict war funding after that date to pay only for embassy protection, targeted counterterrorism efforts and the limited training of Iraqi forces.
But Pelosi conceded later that the effort would mimic unsuccessful attempts of the past year to reduce America’s involvement in the war, and she gave no indication that she thinks that the new attempt will succeed.
“You won’t see a lot that is new,” Pelosi said. “It’s just a repetition of the same.”
Pelosi said that while she has been disappointed by Congress’ failed attempts to end the war, she would not support an effort to withhold all war financing. Some money is needed to provide for U.S. troops overseas, she said.
“We’ll still persist in trying to force a new direction,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi said that Democrats hope to get the proposal to President Bush’s desk before Thanksgiving. Bush has consistently rebuffed such efforts, and even if the proposal were to pass both the House and Senate, it’s unlikely that Democrats would have enough votes to override a sure veto.
Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress last November in an election seen largely as a referendum on the White House’s war policy.
Yesterday, the audience at the all-women’s school in Raleigh questioned why Pelosi hadn’t done more to end the war and hadn’t made an effort to impeach Bush for his handling of the conflict.
And while she responded by citing the costs - in money, lives and Middle East instability - she only assured the audience of continued efforts to oppose Bush. Later, Pelosi seemed to suggest that congressional Democrats do not have the power to change the war’s direction until the next president takes office after the 2008 election.
“This is what elections are about,” Pelosi said. “We didn’t go in having the signature or veto pen that he has. We hoped he would listen to representatives and the thinking of the American people. He refuses to (do that).”
Along with calling voters to the polls, Pelosi also implored the female students to take up leadership roles, talking with them in a private meeting about running for elected office. Pelosi became the highest-ranked elected female in U.S. history because of last year’s election.
“There’s real need for women to be more involved in everything,” she told the overflow audience of about 1,000. “Nothing is more wholesome than the increased participation and leadership of women who make a difference.”
THey don’t learn, do they. They do the same things over and over again (i.e. bring up surrender bills) and expect different results. So the cut and run legislation failed, the bill to piss of Turkey died, what’s next Nan?
Nan have you started the frist 100 hours yet,since you took office.
The “Do Nothing Congress’...Pelosi promises to be sure the name fits! I wish it was as easy to fire a Congress critter as it is to fire someone in the private sector.
Is she serious, or just pandering to the Cindy Shaheen types?
Damascus Nan: she just keeps running and running and . . .
Reminds me, I need to re-read Coulter’s book `Treason’.
All of this would have been over with in Iraq if these traitors had kept their mouths shut the last four years.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Where have you been the last decade?
The GOP is too stooopid and spineless to do this.
She’ll still be trying to pass legislation six months after our troops come home.
Sit down Pelosi and stop passing gas!......
nancy is a walking advertisement for Preparation H
Hey Nancy, were trying to end the war too. With VICTORY
ROFLMAO!
Why do we let them abuse the language this way?
Too late Pelosi, our Brave Troops with your knife in their backs already won it.
Either fund the war or don’t.
And don’t cry when a million people are outside Congress, armed.
They are gunning for a -14% approval rating.
So is she still calling the surge a failure... Republicans REMIND Americans that is Pelosi and crew had their way the troops would have long ago been pulled from Iraq.. It would have become a hodge podge of terrorist training camps and tens of 1000’s of American on this soil would be dead today if the Democrats had their way.
With the plethora of ideas coming from the dims, it is hard to tell which is the best. As they say, ‘laughing out loud’.
Do Nothing Congress is good for us. The most harmful thing they did was to raise the minimum wage in which inflation will destroy it anyway.
“...women who make a difference.”
WWMAD ?
We’ll take note when the radical islamic militants try to stop the war.
Shut the hell up you stupid loony lady!
The war will stop when an EFFECTUAL method is put into play.
We already know what is the most effective way to end a war: Kick the bloody snot out of the other side, until they BEG for mercy. Short of that, the war could drag on for years, as the “playing fields” are somehow “equalized”.
There is no room for equality of the two sides in warfare. If military superiority for one side or the other exists, the morally right thing to do is to exert that superiority with sufficient vigor to thoroughly subdue the opposition, THEN declare terms for peace, well, DICTATE the terms. The alternative is perpetual warfare, because one side or the other still thinks it can gain the advantage. Any truce is only opportunity for one side or the other to reload its arsenal, or to try to gain advantage by stealth that which they could not gain by confrontation.
What efforts? It’s just a game you play Nancy... trying to fool your nutcase base into thinking that you are really trying to do something.
now that the tide has decidedly turned into our advantage the rats will do all they can to pull out and ensure defeat...
Hey Madame Speaker: Get the S*4T out of RALEIGH: NORTH CAROLINA Don’t appreciate..you!!
Pelosi’s wrong (about this, and plenty else) — the efforts to end the war will stop when the job is done.
Victory in Iraq - Do we dare say it? (Vanity)
11/03/2007 | frankenMonkey
Posted on 11/03/2007 2:45:15 PM PDT by frankenMonkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920595/posts
Someone said Pelosi is holding on to her 12 percent approval rating so hard she has white knuckles.
Laughable, if she's presenting herself as a role model. Pelosi is one of the stupidest and most inept Congresspeople in Washington.
Well, it *is* the most popular she’s ever been.
The real effort to end war is the fight that leads to victory.
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