{"id":1194,"date":"2008-02-13T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/nancy-pelosis-failure-mantra\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:09:19","slug":"nancy-pelosis-failure-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi’s “Failure” Mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pelosi echoes Harry (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe war is lost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) Reid:<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is a failure,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding that President Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s troop surge has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not produced the desired effect.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation to Iraq,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pelosi said on CNN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Late Edition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They have not done that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdesired effect\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was total victory for Islamofascism and defeat of U.S. forces.<\/p>\n

The speaker hastened to add: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The troops have succeeded, God bless them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much to your dismay, Pelosi.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you not worried, though, that all the gains that have been achieved over the past year might be lost?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been gains, Wolf,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the speaker replied. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure. The troops have succeeded,<\/strong> God bless them. We owe them the greatest debt of gratitude for their sacrifice, their patriotism, and for their courage and to their families as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Didja get that? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blinky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pelosi can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even get her defeatest story straight.\u00c2\u00a0She claims \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfailure\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, yet in the same fetid breath she thanks us for our success.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But they deserve better than the policy of a war without end, a war that could be 20 years or longer. And Secretary Gates just testified in the last 24 hours to Congress that this next year in Iraq and Afghanistan are going to cost $170 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been cheaper to use a couple of neutron bombs, but hey, they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listen to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

We deserved better leadership than what we were saddled with between 1992 and 2000. FIVE terrorist attacks happened under Bubba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s watch; Khobar Towers, USS Cole, the U.S. Embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, and the first<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 World Trade center attack in 1993. His response? He wagged the dog in Mogadishu and Bosnia. He was too busy getting re-election cash from Bejiing and blow jobs from Monica to care about national security.<\/p>\n

We also deserve better than mealy-mouthed leftwing democrats calling us \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mercenaries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nazi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and telling us that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the sacrifice of the fallen in this war was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153worth it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We know more than anyone about how sacrificing for democracy works, having defended it for over 230 years.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Afghanistan is not settled because the president took his eye off the ball and took the full attention that should have been in Afghanistan, and shifted some of that to Iraq, a war without end, without a plan, without a reason to go in, without a plan to win, without a strategy to leave. This is a disaster \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we cannot perpetuate.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0208\/8422.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Well let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see now, al Qadea and the Taliban have gotten their asses royally kicked in Iraq and Afghanistan. There were 3000<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 reasons to go in and kill them. The plan is working. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve won. When Baghdad and Kabul are ready to take the reins, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be through.<\/p>\n

The Democratic wing of Al Qaeda just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let go of their defeatist ambitions. On the other hand, the Al Qaeda in Iraq already know they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re beaten to a pulp:<\/p>\n

Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extraordinary crisis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military \u00e2\u20ac\u0153created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The terrorist group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s security structure suffered \u00e2\u20ac\u0153total collapse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are the words not of al-Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enemies but of one of its own leaders <\/strong>in Anbar province \u00e2\u20ac\u201d once the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39-page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November.<\/p>\n

The US military released extracts from that letter yesterday along with a second seized in another November raid that is almost as startling.<\/p>\n

That second document is a bitter 16-page testament written last October by a local al-Qaeda leader near Balad, north of Baghdad. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am Abu-Tariq, emir of the al-Layin and al-Mashahdah sector,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the author begins. He goes on to describe how his force of 600 shrank to fewer than 20.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were mistreated, cheated and betrayed by some of our brothers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Those people were nothing but hypocrites, liars and traitors and were waiting for the right moment to switch sides with whoever pays them most.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Assuming the two documents are authentic \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the US military insists that they are \u00e2\u20ac\u201d they provide a rare insight into an organisation thrown into turmoil by the rise of the Awakening movement. More than 80,000 Sunnis have joined the tribal groups of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153concerned local citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [CLCs] that have helped to eject al-Qaeda from swaths of western and northern Iraq, including much of Baghdad.<\/p>\n

US intelligence officials cautioned, however, that the documents were snapshots of two small areas and that al-Qaeda was far from a spent force.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6The Anbar letter conceded that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crusaders\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Americans \u00e2\u20ac\u201d had gained the upper hand by persuading ordinary Sunnis that al-Qaeda was responsible for their suffering and by exploiting their poverty to entice them into the security forces.
\nAl-Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Islamic State of Iraq is faced with an extraordinary crisis, especially in al-Anbar\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, the unnamed emir admitted.<\/p>\n

In an apparent reference to al-Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brutal tactics, he said of the Americans and their Sunni allies: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We helped them to unite against us . . . The Americans and the apostates launched their campaigns against us and we found ourselves in a circle not being able to move, organise or conduct our operations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said of the loss of Anbar province: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This created weakness and psychological defeat. This also created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight.<\/p>\n

The morale of the fighters went down . . . There was a total collapse in the security structure of the organisation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The emir complained that the supply of foreign fighters had dwindled and that they found it increasingly hard to operate inside Iraq because they could not blend in. Foreign suicide bombers determined to kill \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not less than 20 or 30 infidels\u00e2\u20ac\u009d grew disillusioned because they were kept hanging about and only given small operations. Some gave up and went home.<\/p>\n

Finally the emir recommended rewards for killing apostates, using doctors to kill infidels and offering gifts to tribal leaders. He said al-Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fighters should be sent to more promising areas such as Diyala province or Baghdad \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

Rear-Admiral Gregory Smith, the US military spokesman in Baghdad, called Abu-Tariq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s testament a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153woe-is-me kind of document\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It calls the Sunnis who switched sides a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cancer in the body of al-Jihad movement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and declares: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We should have no mercy on them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The author lists those who have made off with al-Qaeda weapons or money, describes the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arsenal, including C5 rockets, which are used against helicopters, and records the fate of the battalions under his command.<\/p>\n

Most of the first battalion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fighters \u00e2\u20ac\u0153betrayed us and joined al-Sahwah [the Awakening]\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, he says. The leader of the second ran away and all but two of its 300 fighters joined the Awakening. The activities of the third were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153frozen due to their present conditions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Of the fourth he writes: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most of its members are scoundrels, sectarians, non-believers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

He lists 38 people still working for him but beside five names he has written comments like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have not seen him for twenty days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153left us a week ago\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He concludes, wistfully: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And that is the number of fighters left in my sector.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Link: http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article3346386.ece<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee, the beleaguered Abu-Tariq sounds so much like Pelosi, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s downright scary.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pelosi echoes Harry (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe war is lost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) Reid: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday … Nancy Pelosi’s “Failure” Mantra<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}