Pelosi: Republicans ‘Like’ the War in Iraq

democrats are traitors

the GOP will continue to promote this was because there are MOUNTAINS of dirt on most of them held by the corporations backing this war (for profit) who backed them into the powerful positions they now have. You cross the corporations, and they will unload on you… the GOP are hostage to the very greed that put them in power.

Repulicans are evil… Most of them sold their souls to religous zealots and/or corporation.
tax breaks for the wealthy, and a few pennies for those who really needed it.
Republicans are more concerned with billion dollar oil companies profits then they are about the world our children will inherit.
Republicans disgust me, and I will never vote for one again. I will spend the rest of my days making sure people know how incredibly evil republicans are.

Republicans don’t like the war, but they would like to win the war. The democrats would not like to win the war. It is however being won inspite of their efforts to defeat the US in Iraq though. The democrats promised our defeat in ’06 and they have failed to defeat the US in Iraq and time is running out on making good on that promise. That’s the real bee in her bonnet.

People of America unite. If your representative is voting on the war and they are not representing your views, do not vote them in again. These representatives are there for us, not for themselves, and surely not for the minority. WE THE PEOPLE put them there and we can take them out if they are not going to listen to us period.
Pelosi please do not give these warmongering fools one more penny for this war, make them bring the troops home now. The other funding that congress needs can wait for another day, that is what the American people want, and that is what you were voted in to do, so get it done, or you will not see yourselve on the government payroll next time around. Ron Paul can give you some much needed advice Pelosi and the rest of the Congress and he is a Republican.

too bad that’s the worst thing pelosi has said… the democrats should get their spine and stand up and say the damn truth more… the republicans (well, at least the born again’s like Bush who think this war is God’s will),yes… they DO like this war, because it is prophesized in the bible… bunch of nutjobs!

Clinton let the enemy kick him 7 times and did nothing. Bush swings like a blind man at any thing close. Can we please have someone in the middle?

Since contractors and large corporations are making billions of dollars,and the majority of stockholders are wealthy Republicans,war is good! Neocons want wars forever to stroke their big cowardly egos,and benefit their millionare/billionare friends. Neocons are the most evil people this country has ever had. Down with all Neocons! Pure evil!

AJ…all the rich are republicans, huh? Shall I start the litany of well known liberal billionaires for you?

Not all Republicans are warmongers. Ron Paul is a Christian who does not support illegal pre-emptive wars, torture, and the killing of hundrends of thousand of innocent humans.
There is no such thing as a “War or terror, no more than “War on Thugs”. Terror is not a country, it is a tactic that can never be stopped, thus, this allows for this warmongers to continue forever. It’s time to support a real conservative who support Freedom and liberty.

if you idiots really think that mannequin pelosi and her over the hill bunch is doing anything in your best interest you need help ! and if you don’t watch yourself you will get another brain dead mannequin in our Whitehouse. Lord help us all. Poloticians haven’t cared for American citzens in years. We better get our heads out the the pile we have it in and pay attention to what is going on the DC. Ask the hard questions,demand answers, straight answers from our elected officials.

The leader has every right to her opinion but;
The Congress is not Alice’s Restaurant where fictional characters rhyme and sing funny stuff about going to war. Or at least I think it should not be that place.
This war is about a wish that every despot be gone from the face of the earth. It is about a wish that every child has the opportunity we have had to grow and learn without mass graves and disappearing relatives. It is a continuation of a policy approved by our elected officials as part of our National interest. It is about our security. It is about failed intelligence, sanctions, negotiation and international bribes.
It is where we are at this point in time. Right or wrong
If the good leader wishes to hurl crass, hurtful, wrongheaded insults (and I am sure all Republicans feel this insult, as a veteran and Republican I certainly do) at the Republicans then she should resign her seat and take her schoolyard bickering somewhere else.
If she wishes to participate as a cooperative member of government, to solve problems, a different tack is suggested.

So, Madame Speaker has finally figured it out ! It’s all about money and it always has been. And this one is no different than the others of recent vintage.
My question is – if one side of the aisle is so bent on criticizing the White House and the war and how it is totally draining our domestic resources, why have they not taken a real stand, cut off the funds and started to live up to their boasts of ’06.
In the mid 60′s, then retiring senior Senator from Pennsylvania Joseph Clark wrote of Congress and called it the “Sapless Branch”. True then, true now and regrettably, probably true tomorrow

Out of all this vitriol comes great satire. Thanks AJ

Oh, so now republicans are evil and democrats are immoral. what kind of country is this? for morons? YUP!!! Go beat each other up instead of doing actual thinking.

Concordcan I think you need to check your history a little better. Saying the Reps love war. I think you need to google war and see who was president during the wars.
These guys have stock in major corporations that supply the war and yes even oil. The Dems do as well as the Reps. They are not too worried about who is hurt in the war because if they were it would have been over when they took office (DEMs)You guys are suckered thinking the DEMs care for you. Wait till you see your pay check if Hillary gets in. Dust in the wind

Ron Paul is a REPUBLICAN totally against the war. So, please don’t say all Republicans are for the war, there is 1 person who isn’t.
Thank You

American english was always plainly spoken with an ear for the potent turn of phrase. Pelosi’s comment was on target. I think her mistake was backing off. The larger question of why we invaded Iraq has been hashed by the administration and the media. If we are going to wield power in the world we had best learn to cope with reality and more important, civility at home and abroad.

Fastest way to make a Republican into a Democrat????
Draft him and send him to fight a Republican President’s war.

“This ‘war’ isn’t saving American lives. More American lives (and money) have been lost in the war than were lost on 9/11.”
IF President Bush HAD NOT invaded Iraq; YET IF Saddam Hussein had the WMDs that in 1998 Bill Clinton and many Democrats said he had; and had Saddam Hussein given these weapons to terrorists; and 100,000 Americans been killed in attacks occurring between March 2003 and today; ALL OF YOU WOULD HAVE BLAMED BUSH FOR NOT DOING SOMETHING TO HAVE PREVENTED THE ATTACKS.
Now it is absolutely ridiculous to equate the 2,974 deaths (and 24 missing) that occurred on 9/11 to the 3,888 American soldiers (and hundreds of American civilians) who have died in Iraq the last FOUR YEARS AND NINE MONTHS.
While still tenuous, the surge IS WORKING. The surge was the turning point in this battle. We now can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The Iraqi warlords are finally cooperating with our efforts to rid Iraq of the foreign terrorists. Al Qaeda in Iraq IS ON THE RUN. We are defeating al Qaeda in Iraq. The Iraqi military is taking a larger roll in their own security. Iraqis are beginning to return home. Iraqi children are once again playing soccer in the fields. Iraqi nightlife is returning. There is still a long way to go. So instead of the Democrats “staying the course” in their efforts to inflict an American defeat in Iraq, they should join President Bush and we can end this battle — with victory.
A victory in Iraq will go a long way towards winning the War on Terror!

Sorry, but Pelosi is right, Republicans do want this war, from the start, its good for their friends. As far as the Surge is Working, well when you have all those groups that hate each other, and you and the Great American money machine giving away money and arms to the tribes, why wouldn’t you load up and wait. Iraq will have no Light At The End Of The Tunnel, no matter what you want to believe, Iraq has nothing, only oil wealth, and oil wealth, rich and poor, and religion and power don’t mix. The LULL is a good time to get out, only Republicans don’t want that, too much money to be made.

Pelosi,Reid,Murtha,Sean Penn,Dick Durbin,Tim Robbins and his live-in girlfriend,Jane Fonda,Keith Oberman,Chris Mathews,the whole staff of radio America,Mark Cuban, the editorial staff and owners of The New York times,the news division of NBC,MSNBC,CNN<CBC,ABC,and PBS, amoung many others…should be arrested for treason for aiding and abetting the enemy during a time of War.then we could get on with the business of winning the war without these Liberal rich treaders.

SHE’S 100% RIGHT. ChickenHawks LOVE this war. Just read their posts here.

• Old Granny Pelosi Sucks Yes, in the San FranWay.

House Speaker (D) San Fran Gran Nancy Pelosi disgraced herself, the Democratic Party which she represents and the job she was elected to do. In a statement made to the press today she said
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It’s not so much about “liking” the war, but “profiting” from it.
This includes more than 8 million households in the U.S. who derive all of their income directly from military, defense, and “security” expenditures.

4,000+ of America’s finest killed in combat; 50,000+ injured and/or maimed; 200,000+ Iraqi civilians (men, women, and children) killed; and all to the tune of 1 TRILLION dollars. Oh yeah, that’s what I call “working”. GOP morons.

Halliburton and Blackwater are run by GOP Bush/Cheney supporters. Cheney was part of Halliburton at one time and made millions. Cheney still is making money off the war. Americans who are living in a world of reality,and aren’t brainwashed by the Rightwing BS,know the truth. The Iraq war was for profit,and big egos. Cowardly Chickenhawk Neocons planned this war before Bush took office in 2001.

Pelosi is “drawing heat” for saying the Republican Administration “likes the war”. Sure she is drawing heat. The truth HURTS.

The military industrialized complex gone horribly awry. A former republican President alerted us to the dangers of this “no-name” military monster back in the early 1960′s. His name was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Defend that neocons. Desiring and working for world peace is painted as some kind of weakness by these warring zealots. Now that is scary.

People like Pelosi, (who by the way has done absolutely nothing to help the US in any? area) as the unfortunate majority “leader”, loves the war and relishes ANY negative reflection on the United States with a Republican at the helm. Kerry, another one. Gore, another one. Chap. Kennedy, another. Can we go on? How much Chinese seed money would buy the Lincoln bedroom, or how about a few sleep overs in NY?

The vast majority of our brave troops would like the Iraq mess to come to a conclusion soon. They know the Neocons were wrong about Iraq. Some day after Bush and Cheney are gone,more facts will come out to prove this war was wrong. It’s unbelievable that there are some braindead Bush supporters who believe iraq attacked us! True patriots are not warmongering neocons. The Neocons are traitors to the true American way. Funny how so many supporters of Neocons are cowards,afraid of their own shadow. They think the boggeyman is around every corner. So pathetic! Our forefathers would have expelled the Neocon type from early America.

AJ, deny it all you want! But the terrorists do want to destroy Western Civilization. Now as for Iraq not attacking us, it is true that they did not attack us here at home. BUT they did fire missiles at several of our planes. And at least one of the planes was in Kuwaiti airspace at the time. THAT IS an act of war!

AJ..In response to your comment about spit??? I can think of a couple other substances’s..That would be better..

And Nancy’s plan is what ? She needs the war too. All these politicians need war.
they have to keep people from realizing our country is de facto bankrupt. Both parties a ethicaly bankrupt already.

DK, I thank God that our founding fathers weren’t as impatient as you. If they had quit 4 years and 9 months into our Revolutionary War, we would still be under the British Monarchy. Our Revolutionary War took EIGHT YEARS and SEVEN MONTHS. It took almost FOUR MORE YEARS before the U. S. Constitution was adopted; another 9 months for it to be ratified; and 8 more months before the 1st Congress convened. That’s just shy of FOURTEEN years from the first shot of our Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775 to Congress convening on March 4, 1879. YET, Iraq’s National Assembly met just 2 years after the beginning of the War, and they adopted their constitution 7 months later.

Well Mr. Danley, then put your money where your mouth is and put your life on the line for these people. Pick up a gun, hit the streets in Iraq, and send someone home who doesn’t want to be there fighting. That goes for all of you supporters. Step up or shut up!!!

To Chris and James Danley – finally, someone on this board who seems to understand… Keep making the point, even though I believe that most will never get it…

DK, you wrote: “Pick up a gun, hit the streets in Iraq, and send someone home who doesn’t want to be there fighting.” EVERYONE of our men and women fighting in Iraq VOLUNTEERED their service. NOT ONE of them was drafted. Unlike during WWII and most other wars, where our men (women weren’t on the frontlines then) spent years in battle without having a furlough, today our men and women do rotations. War is ugly, war is sacrificial. Unfortunately there are times that evil must be thwarted. Suddam Hussein WAS SUPPORTING terrorism. He failed to comply with the conditions that precipated the cease fire in 1991. He failed to show proof that he no longer had WMDs. He failed to respond to the United Nation’s final ultimatum. When the United Nations made it abundantly clear that their ultimatum was an empty threat, President Bush gave his own ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein still refused to comply. President Bush, unlike the United Nations, meant what he said and followed through on his threat.
Now as for me, I am 58 years old. If I had been in my 20s on 9/11, I would have immediately volunteered my service. When my niece and her husband were both deployed to Iraq, I relocated and cared for their 4 children. I pray for all of our men and women in uniform. I pray for their families and loved ones. Every life lost, every individual maimed, every individual wounded, is profoundly sad. I mourn each loss. But I also honor their courage and sacrifice!
Scoff all you want. Deny all you want. BUT the threat is REAL. Fighting terrorist groups like al Qaeda abroad will not guarantee that the battle won’t return to the Homeland. In fact, the War on Terror cannot be won solely on the battlefield. The Israeli-Palestinian conflicted is the root of the problem. It has been allowed to fester for decades. The previous superficial peace accords that maintained the status quo have failed. So dealing with the Middle East crisis head on by spreading democracy in the region, creating an independent state of Palestine to co-exist with Israel, and ending the teaching of hatred towards Western Civilization, IS THE ONLY ROAD to peace in the Middle East. And establishing peace in the Middle East is the only way to win the War on Terror.

givemeabreak, from the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE AND COURAGE. AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO YOUR FAMILY FOR WHAT THEY HAD TO ENDURE DURING YOUR ABSENCE. GOD BLESS YOU and GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY!
GOD BLESS ALL OF OUR ARMED FORCES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

“Like” “support”, don’t play on words, what’s the difference? With the repubs siding with GWB, we are still in Iraq in a useless, costly, and humanly devasting war because the repubs refuse to side with the dems against their almighty GWB. So don’t mince words – if one supports something, i.e., baseball, they need to like it correct? Or they woould not support it. So why the big hallabula? Call ‘em like you see ‘em – the repubs must like what’s going on in Iraq or they would stop the madman GWB and get us out of there. If you neocons didn’t have the dems to blame now, what in the world would you do – go sit in a corner and cry?

Ron, excellent point! For years we who support our troops have been saying you can’t “say” you support the troops without supporting the mission. YES I support the mission. I don’t like war! But I support the long term vision that President Bush has of democracy spreading throughout the Middle East. Peace in the Middle East will ultimately make us safer here at home.

There are a lot of reasons to get into a war, and financial profit is one of them. The Republicans may not have started the war for profit, but the net result is that a lot of them are making a ton of money (through investments in reconstruction contract companies, etc.) from this war. Maybe that’s one reason they want to keep it going, and for everything to remain status quo. This is an opportunity for them to make some money on the side, even if peace and democracy fail in this region. And all of this is coming at the expense of our soldiers’ lives. If money and profit are their motives, then shame on them.

Republicans don’t like it when someone tells them the truth … especially, a woman.

What the House Minority Leader failed to note is the the war on Iraq has been unjustified and unnecessary from the first second the Idiot in Chief ordered it. Any prinicples this country had evaporated in our war of naked aggression, the destruction of human rights, and the economic assault on its citizens. It will take decades to recover from this epic disaster. Of course, the blatant war profiteering goes on. God deliver us from evil

Pelosi has gone off the deep end, and you bunch are leaping right after her.
First fact: The Repubs have paid a big price politically for this war; to claim they ‘like’ it is just bizarre.
Second fact: The whole war-for-oil thing is old; if we wanted Iraq’s oil, we would have just bought it from Saddam for less than the trillions the war has cost. Just try to THINK instead of spouting the MoveOn diatribe, willya?
Third fact: “Republicans are evil” – yeah, right. Satan incarnate. It’s just not possible that anyone could possibly look at a set of facts and come to a different conclusion than Saint Nancy, is it? You’re either with us, or you’re “evil!”
Grow up, kiddies; the world is a dangerous place.
Last inconvenient fact: most Americans do not want us to abandon Iraq. How’s that for listening to the people?

She’s right. It’s the right war.

I guess I don’t understand, I just watched a documentary showing all the reasons we are losing in Iraq, and I don’t see where leaving will do one thing to de-stabilize America. Conservative Republicans that blindly follow without thinking, are traitors to the rest of us.

If you support this murderous regime and their war, then enlist, or have your kids enlist. I don’t see anyone named Bush or Cheney enlisted to fight this rich mens’ folly. Put up or shut up. And give the troops that are out there a break and bring them home. How many rotations to war zones does the voluntary military have to go through to appease your blood lust?
Pelosi, in my opinion is derelict in her duty to uphold the Constitution and impeach the war criminals in the executive branch.

There are no huge profits to be made.
That is what is wrong with peace.
There is no money in it.

DK, here are the facts!
(1) President Bush and Vice President Cheney DID NOT cherry pick the intelligence. The proof is the fact that President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, to name a few, ALL SAID SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS A THREAT DUE TO HIS WMDS — BACK IN 1998 — based on the intelligence reports. Congress even gave President Clinton the authorization for regime change in Iraq BASED on his having WMDs. And just in case you don’t remember, President Bush did not take office until Jan 20, 2001.
(2) Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. HOWEVER, he was supporting terrorism — specifically giving up to $25,000 to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers who killed innocent Israelis. The UN gave Saddam Hussein 12 years of chances to prove that he no longer had WMDs. He failed to do so. In 2003 the UN gave him a final ultimatum. BUT the UN made it clear that their ultimatum was an empty threat. SO based on the intelligence reports from the Clinton Administration, and Congress already acknowledging Saddam Hussein’s threat to our national security from 1998-2000, following 9/11 we could not take the chance that Saddam Hussein would pass some of his WMDs to terrorists. So President Bush gave Saddam Hussein a final ultimatum. Saddam Hussein refused to comply. So President Bush followed through on his threat.
(3) Al Qaeda WAS in Iraq BEFORE the invasion. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was running a training camp for al Qaeda in northern Iraq. One clause in Congress’ Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq of October 2002 states: “Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;” The House voted 296-133 and the Senate 77-23 in favor of the resolution. The AYE votes included 81 Democrats in the House; and 29 Democrats in the Senate — all agreeing that al Qaeda was in Iraq. The resolution passed FIVE MONTHS BEFORE WE INVADED IRAQ!

Saddam refused to comply, last I knew there were inspectors in that country that Bush removed before they could finish their jobs. Many of them came out saying there was no sign of WMD. Who cares what Clinton said in 1990 whatever. The bodies were on the ground and they were searching. What did they find? NOTHING!!!!! Bush didn’t let them finish their job.
As far as the evidence shown to Congress and the world regarding WMD, they did cherry pick it and they weren’t honest. It’s been proven time and again. If I would have looked at what they released I would have voted for the war too. Just because they voted for it after being misled doesn’t give you a legit argument.
AL Zarqawi wasn’t a member of Al Queda until he stepped up and started killing Americans. That was well after the war had begun. Then he released tapes swearing his allegiance etc etc etc etc.

To all of you who think world peace can be achieved by bringing our troops home. Remember Pearl Harbor! The death toll is always higher when you fight the enemy in your own back yard. Let’s keep the filthy swine Al Qaeda busy over there.

Was GWB right or wrong? Either way what is the responsible thing to do? Pulling out would be irresponsible. Damage to the country was done and needs to be fixed. Liberal attitude seems to be “So I ran into your car, tough, I’m moving on.” I don’t know how much simpler this could be related, but I know even this comment will be attacked by the left. “We should not have gone in there, etc.” Fact is that we are, fact is that if you were driving with more care you would not have hit the other car. Unfortunately we are not able to look into the future to see what could happen and make adjustments, so good and bad decisions are made. Many trusted Hitler, we know what happen there. Throughout history lessons have been learned, trusting individuals in positions of absolute power has not been positive. America needs to finish this in Iraq and leave with a positive result, no matter how long it takes. Political actions against finishing only promotes a longer time and encourages the opposition. This is all very simple logic that seems to not be grasped by the left.

GWB is not “Their President” he is OUR President. Just because someone doesn’t vote for someone, if they win they ar President. It stuck in my craw when some GOP’ers said that about Clinton and it does now with the anti Bush whiners. Democracy means sometimes the other candidate wins. Just because Al Gore had advantages going in and still couldn’t win, don’t hate on GBW and say he isn’t President or something.