Position Open Until Vacany Filled: Democratic Leader for House of Representatives. QUALIFICATIONS: Must possess at least one solid position on Iraq Rebuilding Efforts
For my next mind-mangling trick, I will increase your chocolate rations from 12 grams a week to 10 grams a week!
Q: Did you ever see 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the scene where Dave disconnects the HAL9000's brain and the HAL9000 starts nattering and droning, "stop. Dave. Dave. stop." and the like? It reminds me of that:
The venue? CNN's Late Edition... my guess is Speaker Pelosi was hoping no one was watching. It being CNN's Late Edition, that was a safe bet. However, Ms. Pelosi couldn't help getting tripped up, even by the fairly benign questioning of Wolf Blitzer on the Iraqi rebuilding efforts. Don't the politicians who know they have no position on particular topics warn the interviewers beforehand to steer clear of such awkward lines of questioning?:
“The purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the
government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation
to Iraq...They have not done
that.”
Pelosi’s comment came during a discussion of her call for “the redeployment of our troops out of Iraq.”
Anchor Wolf Blitzer asked: “Are you not worried, though, that all the
gains that have been achieved over the past year might be lost?”
“There haven't been gains, Wolf,” the speaker replied. “The gains have
not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq.
This is a failure. This is a failure. The troops have succeeded, God
bless them. We owe them the greatest debt of gratitude for their
sacrifice, their patriotism, and for their courage and to their
families as well
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