Pelosi: Discussing Sending More Troops to Iraq

[Monkeyman]

http://democraticleader.house.gov

"Dispatching National Security Adviser Hadley to Iraq to discuss sending more troops to Bag dad is fresh evidence that President Bush's stay the course policy is a failure. Despite increasing U.S. troops strength to about 145,000 in response to heightened levels of violence in Iraq , we have lost 103 of our finest men and women in Oct. alone."

"With militia influence over the Iraqi police apparently increasing, and the Iraqi government apparently having conceded parts of Bag dad to the control of sectarian militias, we should not commit even more American troops to a fight the Iraqis seem increasingly unwilling to make themselves. Our brave men and women in uniform deserve a plan for success that is worthy of their sacrifice, not more of the same from President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld. It is time for a new direction in Iraq. "

[acmejack]

1. And that direction is towards the exits.

Declare victory, etc.

[QShok]

2. Hillary said it best...

'its better to declare mission accomplished than to actually accomplish the mission'

-Hillary Clinton 2006

[snowbear]

3. Qshock.... Was she mocking Bush when she said that?

She HAD to have been!

[rzemanfl]

4. Did she say that when she was in Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa?

Just askin'

[Jacobin]

5. Was that when she suggested

sending 80,000 additional troops to iraq last year?

She lost me right there

[leesa]

6. I agree. Unfortunately, Hillary means she's for sending more troops to die there

for no reason at all except to accomplish the Mystery Mission. DLCers LUV war.