While Nancy Pelosi was in Iraq she admitted the sure had produced progress and now that she is back in the US, she is crediting.....IRAN... with the surges success.
Not our brave troops, Not General Petraeus and his counterinsurgency strategy, not the brave Iraqi security forces that have busted butt to learn and protect their home and not the Iraqi people that have turned against al-Qaeda...nope... IRAN.
Funny that many of said she would try to find some way to backtrack from her previous remarks:
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. She also met with Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq.
At the time, I pointed readers towards Hot Air's Ed Morrisey, who said:
Let’s see. Iraqi Army taking control of national security — check. Maliki building support from Sunnis and Kurds — check. Congressional benchmarks for provincial elections, de-Baathification reform, oil revenue distribution, and general national reconciliation being met — check.
And Nancy Pelosi acknowledging all of these signs of the surge’s success … checkmate.
He also suspected that Pelosi's tune might change once she gets back on American soil, so he saved that AP piece in it's entirety.
Now, in an 80-minute interview she says:
Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.
Yes the people that have been sending weapons over to Iraq to kill our soldiers, weapons that were marked as manufactured, where????? That is right, IRAN.
That is who Granny Nan thinks credit should be given to.
Commentary Magazine speaks to this issue perfectly:
This is an inexcusable slander. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki brought the Sadrists militias to their knees in a month-long battle that enabled Iraq’s largest Sunni bloc to rejoin the government. Furthermore, when Pelosi met with Prime Minister al-Maliki in Mosul she sang quite a different tune. She had “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,” and stated, “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.”
Discounting the success of the American military, denying the accomplishments of U.S. allies, and giving the credit to our most dangerous enemies seems like an especially productive week for a Democrat on Capitol Hill. After Nancy Pelosi’s post-Iraq hat trick, there’s really no need for Barack Obama to make this trip after all.
ACE has some more examples of the type of "goodwill" Iran has shown:
Will she also thank Al Qaeda for scaling back its beheadings and bombings?
You have to see the picture Ace has up with this as the caption:
Nancy Pelosi proudly declares Iran has agreed to a 25% reduction in the terror-bomb murdering of our troops. She says she hopes that further "goodwill" from Iran might result in 33% reductions in the "near furture." ""With further careful diplomacy," she says, "it could be that only 15-25 American troops are being murdered by our Iranian friends per month."
I have heard sheer stupidity out of Nancy Pelosi before but this takes the cake and the only silver lining here is that she proved all of us that said she would find a way to slam our troops and take any credit away from the courageous work THEY have done and THEIR accomplishments.
She continues to prove us right as well as showing her ignorance.
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