Posted by
Michael on Friday, December 14, 2007 1:40:17 AM
Syndicated talk show host Dennis Prager has noted often to the
effect that conservatives think liberals are misguided, but liberals
think conservatives are evil. Nancy Pelosi's recent comments illustrate this core belief:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is drawing heat for suggesting her political opponents are fond of the war in Iraq.
“The
grassroots are justifiably disappointed and I am too that we could not
do something to end this war,” Pelosi said at a press conference today.
“The assumption that I made that the Republicans would soon see the
light and listen to their constituents was not an accurate one.”
She
continued: “They like this war. They want this war to continue. We
thought that they shared the view of so many people in our country that
we need a new direction in Iraq. To affect that we need redeployment of
our troops with a goal of a year to do that. But the Republicans have
made it very clear that this is just not George Bush’s war, this is the
war of the Republicans in Congress.”
No one wants
to be sending troops into harms way. It's not fun. Those that support
these efforts think it is necessary, they don't like death and
destruction. To suggest that they do is some of the most disgusting and
toxic demagoguery, which is unfortunately all too common from the Left.
Pelosi tried to back off from her comments:
Asked to clarify her use of the word “like,” Pelosi backed off her statement of moments before.
“When
I say ‘like,’ I shouldn’t say they ‘like’ the war. They support the
war, the course of action that the president is on and they are not
questioning in terms of his implementation of the war, the execution of
the war.”
Well, you said "they," as in the Republicans, "like" it "want this war to continue," Mrs. Pelosi. Those are your own words.
The
ones that truly want war to continue are the jihadists who have been
more upfront about their desire to annihilate us than any adversary in
any war anywhere in recent memory. I would hope you would note this
instead of attacking those that seek to keep their bizarre Islamist
dystopia from coming about, Mrs. Pelosi, but I won't hold my breath.