John Kerry out to get out more and perhaps read newspapers. If he had, he almost certainly would have heard the name "Nancey Pelosi." She's the leader of the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. Yesterday, she reiterated her demand that the United States tuck tail and run from Iraq in the face of carbombers and assassins.
For months now, Democratic leaders have grown increasingly aggressive in their critiques of President Bush's policies in Iraq but have been largely content to keep their own war strategies vague or under wraps. That ended Wednesday when Pelosi (D-Calif.) aggressively endorsed a proposal by Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, leaving only a much smaller rapid-reaction force in the region.
Earlier this week, John Kerry, who has in fact demanded much the same thing, insisted that there were no Democrats advocating a cut and run strategy. From Tuesday: Kerry accused Bush of resorting to "straw man" arguments in denouncing his critics' calls for a drawdown of U.S. forces...."No one has ever suggested or believes that we should run in the face of car bombers or assassins," Kerry said, referring to a passage in Bush's speech. "No one is talking about running in the face of a challenge. We're talking about how to win, how to succeed, how do you best achieve our goals? That's the choice here. And what the president did not do today again is acknowledge the fundamental reality of the insurgency."
As Marshall Wittmann, former Republican strategist said, "If Karl Rove was writing the timing of this, he wouldn't have written it any differently, with the president of the United States expressing resolve and the Democratic leader offering surrender. For Republicans, this is manna from heaven."
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