Incredible.
The prime minister returned to Baghdad from Mosul — where he has been overseeing the crackdown — to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who made a surprise visit to Iraq on Saturday.
Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, expressed confidence that expected provincial elections will promote national reconciliation.
She welcomed Iraq’s progress in passing a budget as well as oil legislation, and a bill paving the way for the provincial elections in the fall that are expected to more equitably redistribute power among local officials.
“We’re assured the elections will happen here, they will be transparent, they will be inclusive and they will take Iraq closer to the reconciliation we all want it to have,” said Pelosi.
Military progress from the change of direction to counter-insurgency strategy as well and the political change it’s bringing about is so undeniable now that even people who support the troops but not their efforts, people who want success but oppose the war can no longer ignore the fact.
Tragedy! There’s success in Iraq. OH NO! Question: why is that a bad thing/why oppose it?
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something must be wrong! It sounds like she’s entered the “Twilight Zone.”
Responsibility, accountability, reality…
….somethings just cannot be dismissed and ignored forever. Sooner or later the truth catches up.
She is getting ready to declare victory .. under her leadership .. then call for withdrawal.
Stevie just wet his panties.
You feign her diplomacy for concession.
Furthermore, that’s some really weak tea one to conclude she conceded her position based on one sentence; especially when that one sentence expressed more a statement of provincial election guarantee than confidence.
When she stated, ““We’re assured the elections will happen here”… you assume this a more inclusive grammatical arrangement that expresses confidence, but certainly, given her position on Iraq, it is exclusive. She wants provincial elections to happen in coming months, yet conviction and certainty of the election has been problematic.
This is the most accurate meaning to her statement.
This is what she said to Maliki’s face. What will she say to her base in this country? That is the trouble with politicians. They haven’t quite grasped the fact that EVERYTHING they say will be know in a short space of time by EVERYBODY. They can no longer tell one group one thing and another group the exact opposite without a lot of flak. This is my take on her statements. That she talks out of both sides of her mouth. The only other explanation is that that dim bulb in her head finally came on.
ROFL!!!!
“Furthermore, that’s some really weak tea one to conclude she conceded her position based on one sentence; ”
To that I say:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Mushroom cloud
my Lord…how many examples do we need? Oh, but now it’s wrong to believe that she and other Democrats recognize there is not only military success in Iraq (long after the “The war is lost” comments from Sen Reid), but there is more political progress towards reconcilliation in Baghdad than in Washington DC!
OMG This is just too funny!
Thanks for the laugh Doug
San Fran Gran Nan got a chilly reception in Baghdad.
Imagine that.
It is very telling that when Condi Rice visited the enemy decided that her presence merited hostile fire into the Green Zone but Pelosi’s presence didn’t warrant that.
Of course, why would the enemy want to fire upon her?
She’s on their side.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1807442,00.html
DUH, how’s that line of insurgent thinking go? “Hey guys, this American woman is in town, and she totally supports our goal of getting American troops out. She also sells our message better than our media wing does. Should we fire at her? No? Gee, why not?”
Duh
Wordsmith, how did you do that??
Perhaps Pelosi needed to visit Baghdad to find out how an effective and productive legislature can get it’s job done even under adverse security conditions. The Iraqi Parliament has been much more successful in accomplishing it’s task than Democrats in the U.S. Congress who have managed to get only ONE of their agenda items (let’s call them benchmarks shall we?) passed.
And while we are all certain that minimum wage employees appreciate that raise, they are still saddled with high gas prices, healthcare costs and a range of other financial challenges that the 2006 Congress was supposed to take care of.
P.S. Skye: Use the html code for inserting an image. You can also paste in the embed code for videos too.
Is the embed thing must be an Admin only function?
I tried that earlier but the coding was ignored.
I usually hit the “edit” button on someone’s comment, and then use the “Image” button, insert link, cut-and-paste it to my comment and publish. (I don’t have the html code memorized for “image” insertion).
While we’re at this, it’d be nice if more commenters used [blockquote] and [/blockquote], replacing the brackets with <> to make it easier to read and distinguish what is being cited from the new comment.
Well, now that you’ve taught me how, I will do that.
I meant to ask how, but just didn’t.
🙂
Look below where it says “Comment”, there is a button with a arrow. Push that and it gives you some html stuff
test strong
test em
test ol
test li
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Aye: Are you unable to add html tags like
img src=””
(surrounded of course by “<" and "/>” and where the image location is between the two “” marks)
Scott,
While I’m happy that my comment made you laugh …I was listening to an NPR interview with Pelosi today (Sunday afternoon) discussing her trip to Iraq and it was obvious she reflected my interpretation in the AP piece; Pelosi: “We want to make sure it’s not the same ol’ song we’ve heard before”, she concluded generally.
When you say: …”how many examples do we need [to support] political progress”? I say: think in terms of what the Iraqi people want; then reflect on why so many Iraqis want us to leave.
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PS. I don’t believe there has been significant and authentic “political progress”— remember: yours is the minority stance, therefore, you need to support it; as I haven’t seen counter arguments to my posts to indicate otherwise.
I have been guilty of that as well (and extremely lazy). There is a short reference quide in the WordPress Docs here: Writing Posts
It is near the bottom under the section Visual Versus HTML Editor
Hope that helps