Tom, Denny and Roy demand that Nancy Pelosi apologize

Last week, Pelosi spoke about her amendment that would demand some accoutability from the bushies...

"From the start, I've thought this war was a grotesque mistake,'' said Pelosi, who voted against the autumn 2002 resolution authorizing Bush to launch military operations against Saddam Hussein's regime. "The question now is about the execution of the war. It's hard for anyone to argue that the war meets the standard of a strategy for success.''

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/15/MNGCJD8J6P1.DTL

DeLay Calls on Pelosi to Apologize for Comments; Democrat Leader Calls Iraq Liberation 'Grotesque Mistake'
..."Saying Operation Iraqi Freedom has been 'without success' and calling the liberation of 25 million Iraqis a 'grotesque mistake' exposes once again the weak and indecisive foreign policy of the Democrats' past."

He said, while counting money that's connected to slave labor.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=49095

Hastert Rebukes Rhetoric by Nancy Pelosi on Iraq War
..."Leader Pelosi calls the war in Iraq a mistake, but I would like her to tell that to the Iraqi women who voted for the first time or the young activists who for years lived in fear of speaking out against Saddam Hussein's brutal dictatorship. Because of our actions, women are no longer victimized by Saddam Hussein.
"The sacrifice of our men and women in uniform allowed for free and fair elections, which allowed all political parties and all ethnic and religious groups to participate. How is that a mistake?

I'd like Denny to explain to the bereaved of 100,000 Iraqis how it isn't

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=49087

Blunt Challenges Pelosi's Rhetoric
"Leader Pelosi's comments during debate on the bill to fund America's military operations in wartime stand in stark contrast to the bravery of the millions of Iraqis who voted in democratic elections for the first time, and the thousands of coalition troops who have given their lives to defend freedom."

"thousands" of coalition troops? does Blunt have some information he'd care to share with us?

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=49097

This concerted outrage is one big phoney show. Last September, she said the SAME thing:

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“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.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6095868

Are these guys for real?

As I understand it, women in Hussein's Iraq had more rights and freedoms than virtually anywhere else in the Middle East.

Yes, women enjoyed certain freedoms in the Iraq of recent years, but no one's going to tell me Saddam Hussein deserves defending.

The point is that the Bush administration is mendacious and incompetent and secretive to a degree that would make Nixon blush. They rushed into war, they did a bad job of it, and thousands of innocent people are paying the price for it.

And they've increased the number of enemies the U.S. has, not reduced it.

especially if they are leaders of the Democratic Party.

ANY WAY THAT THEY CAN! How pathetic!

Hang tough there Nancy. 60% of Americans agree with you. Time for the opposition party to speak out and speak the truth. America is waiting.

Gosh - I don't see anything about the DLC here! Seems like it's Republicans saying nasty things...

Why don't you direct your gratuitous insults at the Republicans?

Why don't you work toward some party unity instead of jumping on every opportunity to trash fellow Democrats?

But I hope that no Democrats feel like they have to join the Republican crybabies in their delusional fight against reality, as so often happens. It seems that every time there's a forthright statement from a Democrat (Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin), there's at least one Democrat who feels like he or she has to denounce what was said, no matter how on target or right it was.

Let the Republicans fight their own losing battles.

there are many posters here at DU who constantly find the need to pre-emptively denounce those Democrats before anything is said.

I don't find that kind of Dem bashing very productive.

With my handle, that particular word just jumps off the screen at me. But it will be interesting to see in the next 24-48 hours if any Democrats feel compelled to upbraid Pelosi for her "divisive" comments. It's not like it hasn't happened before, and perhaps it will happen less often if the perpetrators are tipped off ahead of time that it's something that we rank-and-filers notice.

We need to start providing discipline from the rank and file 'cause there sure as heck isn't any from our 'leaders'.

sooner or later we will identify them, run campaigns against them, refuse to fund them, then they can go join the pukes, where they belong. I would like to put every Democratic rep and senator on notice; if you ignore your constituants interests in favor of the corperatists - ur gone!

here is the pattern:

1) the VRWC attack machine issues its talking points
2) hate radio kicks in on queue within 24 hours
3) MSM follows suit with non-critical articles reporting the talking points
4) DLC whores startup with the 'perhaps it was over the top' or 'x doesn't speak for me' or 'x ought to apologize for that remark'.

For example Durbin's recent remarks. For example Dean on the theocracy.

60% of the American people - so that includes quite a few who were mislead into going along with this war - think the war is a mistake. So, "mistake" is appropriate. That leaves describing the mistake as "grotesque," and the short definition of that is "characterized by distortions."

So Pelosi should apologize for... what???

Innocent people have been killed, lives destroyed, turned upsidedown... for a war we were essentially told was necessary to prevent a nuclear attack on an American city. A grotesque mistake is one of the milder things you could call this.

She could have called them lying murderers.

is getting old. PARTICULARLY in light of RW Stinkmaul Rush's RACIST referral to "mongrels." Man-o-man how dat Ami Sprache done got SO.FUCKED.UP. :freak::shrug::freak:

Their best line to is admit that the Bushies duped them, apologize to the American people for being so gullible, and demand an apology from the regime.

Ms. Pelosi is in effect saying exactly that. Why can't they?

:toast:

Waiting for Bush to be punish for illegal invasion of Iraq x(
War on Iraq illegal
All Iraqies killed are crime again Humanity x(
We wait, you cant run
We wait, for American people to hand you over x(
We not go away,

Colonial occupation is not liberation. The Iraqi people know that; that is why it has been a mistake.

... especially the blood of innocent women and children, don't seem to bother them.

Fucking hypocrites!

Geez! Pelosi, Durbin, Reid, Dean, etc. speak the truth and speak their minds and you would think we've just been invaded by Communists!

Yet, Republican after Republican stand on the floor, stick their mugs in front of TV cameras, and chat it up with reporters spouting a hateful rhetoric like I've never seen...and the crickets chirping is deafening.