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To: Sully- who wrote (55238)	2/23/2007 3:56:46 AM
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Pelosi questions own patriotism! Best of the Web Today BY JAMES TARANTO Thursday, February 22, 2007 "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney's comments that the Congressional Democrats' plan for Iraq would 'validate the Al Qaeda strategy,' " Fox News reports: <<< Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney's comments wrongly questioned critics' patriotism and ignored Bush's call for openness on Iraq strategy. "You cannot say as the president of the United States, 'I welcome disagreement in a time of war,' and then have the vice president of the United States go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position of authority is acting against the national security of our country," the speaker said. >>> Here is what Cheney said, in an ABC News interview: I think, in fact, if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al Qaeda strategy. The al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people. In fact, knowing they can't win in a stand-up fight, try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit. I think that's exactly the wrong course to go on. I think that's the course of action that Speaker Pelosi and Jack Murtha support. I think it would be a huge mistake for the country. It is true that Cheney accuses Pelosi and Murtha of, as she puts it, "acting against the national security of our country." Does Pelosi think it illegitimate to make such accusations? Evidently not, to judge by this Pelosi press release of Sept. 24, 2006: <<< The news report on the National Intelligence Estimate is further proof that the war in Iraq is making it harder for America to fight and win the war on terror. Five years after 9/11 and Osama bin Laden is still free and not a single terrorist who planned 9/11 has been caught and brought to justice. President Bush should read the intelligence carefully before giving another misleading speech about progress in the war on terrorism. >>> Pelosi claimed that the president's policies have helped al Qaeda--a commonplace among Democratic opponents of the Iraq effort (including many who voted for it). Why is Cheney's statement invidious if Pelosi's was innocuous? It's not because Cheney questioned Pelosi & Co.'s patriotism, as she claims. He didn't. He said they were espousing bad policies, but he offered no opinion or speculation about their motives for doing so. Pelosi thus joins a long line of Democrats to raise questions about their own patriotism. opinionjournal.com foxnews.com i.abcnews.com house.gov opinionjournal.com