Before getting into the good stuff, I apologize for slacking off last week. Apparently, I'm expected to do some sort of work in return for the money I get each week. Then, I went up to the North Carolina mountains for a little R&R. Unfortunately, there wasn't any good skiing weather, so we did some tourist-like things and chilled. Good weekend.
But enough about me. The Honorable Lady from California, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is pretty close to an Idiot of the Day Nomination (with all due respect, of course). Yesterday, Wolf Blitzer interviewed her. Now, if you've been following the elections and the endless number of debates we've had, you may have noticed that the Iraq war is not really a talking point for either side.
This is weird considering that during the 2006 mid-term election, virtually every Democrat candidate advocated redeploying American soldiers out of Iraq in the near future, if not immediately. Then, when the President presented his "surge" plan, the Democrats criticized the idea, and several of the leaders in the party declared the war lost. Even when news started rolling in that the increase in American forces had crippled the insurgency, Democrats insisted that the war is still lost, and we should just pull all American troops back.
But enough about me. The Honorable Lady from California, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is pretty close to an Idiot of the Day Nomination (with all due respect, of course). Yesterday, Wolf Blitzer interviewed her. Now, if you've been following the elections and the endless number of debates we've had, you may have noticed that the Iraq war is not really a talking point for either side.
This is weird considering that during the 2006 mid-term election, virtually every Democrat candidate advocated redeploying American soldiers out of Iraq in the near future, if not immediately. Then, when the President presented his "surge" plan, the Democrats criticized the idea, and several of the leaders in the party declared the war lost. Even when news started rolling in that the increase in American forces had crippled the insurgency, Democrats insisted that the war is still lost, and we should just pull all American troops back.
Well, yesterday, the Honorable Lady from California completely baffled me. During the interview with Wolf, she stated that "Iraq is a failure," and in the same breath said "the troops have succeeded. God bless them." I don't know why she threw the "God bless them," in there, but anytime she mentioned the troops in this interview, it was followed by, "God bless them." It's like she believes asking God to bless the troops somehow absolves her from being an idiot. If only it were that simple.
So, D&F readers, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to explain how the troops can succeed, but their mission (Iraq) fail. In my opinion, it is impossible to seperate the two, and any attempt to say that the troops have succeeded, but the war is lost is oxymoronic. Whether you support the war or not, the idiocy of the Honorable Lady's statement is pretty clear.
