Posted by
Mike Silverman on Monday, April 07, 2008 3:58:25 PM
Last thursday Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi issued a public verbal warning to General Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq whose handling of the recent surge of US military action in Iraq played a key role in turning the tide and forcing embedded terrorists to flee the province. She basically warned him not to give congress any good news when he shows up to deliver his report on the recent outbreak of violence in Basra. She said, “We have to know the real ground truths of what is happening there, not put a shine on events because of a resolution that looks less violent when in fact it has been dictated by al-Sadr, who can grant or withhold that call for violence,”
Obviously Speaker Pelosi has already decided for herself what the report should be, and what the circumstances were regarding the violence. So why bother with a report from the General? This is shameful of her. Her comments were a demagogue's spew of pompous arrogance and toxic ignorance. Madam Speaker..., you are not Commander In Chief of the military, much as you attempt to pretend that you are. Not only has your own term in congress produced "nothing" of any substance, not only have you failed time-and-time-again to bring stability and unification to your own political party, not only have you failed to deliver on your promise of "Earmark" ( political pork )reform and instead stood silently as it overflowed, but you have denigrated the men and women of the military with your comments against the war on terror. Yet you slip away to clandestine visits with terrorist enablers like Basher Assad in Syria to extend him a hand of friendship, while stabbing your own country's military efforts in the back. In my opinion your behavior makes you a traitor Ms. Pelosi, and in my opinion the worst Speaker Of the House in the history of our country. That is your legacy. While General Petraeus will be remembered as a hero and a great leader of military successes. Perhaps you should consider that, before attempting to tell the General that you will not accept his report unless it lives up to your own ignorant standards.