Pelosi: Obama Articulated a Way Out of War Bush Administration Left Him

[flpoljunkie]

Pelosi: Obama Articulated A Way Out Of War Bush Administration Left Him
Brian Beutler | December 1, 2009, 10:08PM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, caught between the progressives in her caucus with whom she sympathizes, and her role as Speaker of the House, says President Obama has finally articulated a way out of the war in Afghanistan after inheriting a mess from President Bush

"President Obama inherited a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan because the Bush Administration did not have a plan to get the job done," Pelosi said. "Tonight, the President articulated a way out of this war with the mission of defeating Al Qaeda and preventing terrorists from using Afghanistan and Pakistan as safe havens to again launch attacks against the United States and our allies."

The President has offered President Karzai a chance to prove that he is a reliable partner. The American people and the Congress will now have an opportunity to fully examine this strategy.

Our troops in Afghanistan and around the world have performed excellently; they have done everything that has been asked of them. As always, we are grateful and respectful of the enormous sacrifices our men and women in uniform, and their families, have made.

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[uponit7771]

1. You go girl!!! Put the blame RIGHT where it BELONGS !!!!

[Buzz Clik]

2. shhh! The whiners aren't done polluting the board.

We'll have a rational conversation some other time.

[BobRossi]

3. Tell that to the thousands that will die in Obama's name.

The Dems can sugar coat this all they want, the fact is he is continuing shrub's policies.

[uponit7771]

4. By having a definative, goal based, time oriented exit strategy he's continuin Bush? Hyperbole much?

[phleshdef]

9. I know, it must really hurt you to have to type such things KNOWING you are full of shit as you...

...type it. He has an end strategy and that doesn't fit your narrative and there is nothing you can do to change that. So sad for you, so very sad.

[phleshdef]

10. Have even a thousand died in Afghanistan over the last 8 years?

LOL, if so, its just barely over a thousand. Do you realize how uninformed your comment makes you look?

[Clio the Leo]

5. Why we have allowed the GOP to divide us in mind-blowing...

... I'm sure they are enjoying this moment. (Go to Freeperville, you'll see they are.)

[high density]

8. It's a continuation of the purity whining from the primary season

And a fact of warped expectations that Obama was never the anti-war candidate.

[Kdillard]

6. Nancy is correct. Sad that so many here have forgotten that.

[high density]

7. Well Bush did have a bit of a plan

The plan was to have no plan and pass off the problem to the next guy in the oval office.

Now Republicans (and their media) are up in arms that Obama has a plan when they were silent on the fact that Bush just let the war go on endlessly without purpose. The anti-war left is happy to join in on the attacks on Obama. The more the merrier, I suppose?