Nancy Pelosi … Useful Idiot!!

Posted on June 2, 2008
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Nancy Pelosi … just … doesn’t … get … it!

You cannot embrace an Obama-like use of words which signify nothing and expect the public to buy what you’re shoveling!

Her most recent comments regarding Iran, our troops and our policy in Iraq have shown her to be completely out-of-touch with reality.

She was speaking with the San Francisco Chronicle and said the following;

Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space. A time for political change to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military and the 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 the cessation of hostilities…the Iranians

Excuse me Madame Speaker…but you’re lying!!

Iraq’s Prime Minister has shown great courage in going after the Sadrists and clearing out Basra. The Sadrists had to sue for a cease fire, which was not offered nor given, and have been routed from many of the areas where they used to operate. This show of force allowed the Sunni blocs to re-enter the government and reunify with their Iraqi brethren.

Iraq has in short order;

Gone after the Sadr militias
Enacted oil legislation with equitable distribution of oil revenues
Passed a budget
Cleared the way for provincial elections this Fall

Want to know how I know this??

Because Nancy Pelosi, herself, said these very things to Prime Minister Maliki when she visited him earlier this month.

She welcomed Iraq’s progress in passing a budget as well as oil legislation and a bill paving the way for provincial elections in the fall that are expected to more equitably redistribute power among local officials.

So, with the violence going down and Al-Qaeda now admitting defeat in Iraq, how is that not achieving our goals Madame Speaker??

It is statements like these that make the Iraqis either ignore you or hate you Madame Speaker.

The lack of popularity of Pelosi’s views was evident in the fact that her first day on the ground Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not make an effort to see her. Maliki is currently in the northern city of Mosul overseeing a crackdown on insurgent networks there. But the city has been largely quiet in recent days, and there was no obvious pressing reason for the Prime Minister to skip Pelosi’s arrival.

Pelosi may not get much more warmth from the American military leaders she plans to meet either. Pelosi argued against sending additional surge forces to Iraq, a plan overseen by Gen. David Petraeus that is now widely credited with reducing the levels of violence in Iraq.

Goodwill Of The Iranians??

Is she serious? Or has she caught a case of whopper-itis from Bill Clinton ?? The U.S and Iraqi forces dominated the Sadrists in Basra. As for the “goodwill” of Iranians, would this be the same goodwill that kills over 10% of our troops in Iraq?

Steve Schippert has a great piece about this interview here.

Steve excoriates her for much of the same reasons I do but then goes further about her shedding crocodile tears over our troops;

She went to Iraq last week to visit the troops “in preparation for Memorial Day.” How does that work, exactly? How does visiting Iraq prepare one for Memorial Day? Forgetting the ‘how’ for a moment, perhaps it should be asked ‘why.’ Speaker Pelosi answers that question unequivocally, after a very flat and tellingly unarticulated “they’re so great” reference to the troops, as she immediately spells out casualty figures of dead and wounded. Of course, she didn’t meet any of the dead honored by the nation, but somehow her trip was “in preparation for Memorial Day.”

And, just as she offered that the troops in Iraq are “so great” without articulating how they are so, she says, “We’ve lost, what’s it - 4,075 - something like that now, every one of them precious to us.” This is immediately followed by an uneasy silence, seemingly struggling for words and incapable of expounding on just why they are so precious to us. Not a word of what they have done. They’re just dead. And I am just disgusted.

Unable to articulate, she breaks the pause by immediately reminding of the over 10,000 wounded. And, without pause, of course informs also that she has just been to the hospital and is in fact going right back yet again to the local VA hospital in San Francisco just as soon as her media brief at the Chronicle is over

Thai’s Take

She was going back to the hospital to visit with troops? Ugh!

Please … Madame Speaker… please don’t subject our troops to more punishment by having to be in the same room with you again!!

I can assure you that they will smile and comport with all the “niceities” that your position requires, but they would much rather being undergoing rectal surgery than having to spend time talking with you.

Does anyone remember when Valdimir Lenin coined a phrase when called the Soviet sympathizers who lived in the West, “useful idiots”?

That is exactly how Nancy is acting vis-a-vis Iran! She is a puppet that lends significance and credence to terror-sponsoring nations (and therefore terrorists) around the world. It would merely be a sad story about some deranged American woman, if not for the fact that she is 3rd in line to be President!

I’ll leave you with a second quote from Steve’s article where he explains the “goodwill” of the Iranians and exposes Pelosi’s usefulness to their cause.

Perhaps it has not occurred to Speaker Pelosi that so profound is “the goodwill of the Iranians” that over 10% of the 4,075 dead American military men and women she speaks of were felled by the hands of the same. In fact, 18% of US combat deaths in the last quarter of 2006 came at the hands of the EFP, an Iranian “goodwill” gesture to their proxy Iraqi militias. If we’re going to have a discussion of casualties and “the goodwill of the Iranians,” Madame Speaker, let’s please do. But let’s first get the context properly framed.

Amen Steve !!

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