CNN reports today:
Pelosi ‘sad’ over Bush’s Iraq representation WASHINGTON — House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Tuesday she feels “sad” President Bush blamed insurgent violence on al Qaeda while he dismissed notions Iraq is in a civil war. “My thoughts on the president’s representations are well-known,” Pelosi told reporters while meeting with Deputy Italian Minister Francesco Rutelli. “The 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again.”
But in her recent 60 Minutes profile the incoming speaker conceded that non-Iraqi terrorists are NOW in Iraq.
STAHL: Do you not think that the war in Iraq now, today, is the war on terror? Rep. PELOSI: No. The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. That is what… STAHL: But you don’t think that the terrorists have moved into Iraq now? Rep. PELOSI: (Unintelligible). They have. STAHL: Well… Rep. PELOSI: The jihadists in Iraq. But that doesn’t mean we stay there. That means–they’ll stay there as long as we’re there. They’re there because we’re there.
Guess Pelosi was referring to the non-al Qaeda foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.
