Rep. Liz Cheney ripped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for “blaming” the Trump administration while U.S. forces in Iraq were being attacked by Iran.
As Iran unloaded over a dozen ballistic missiles on two military bases housing American forces in Iraq, Pelosi tweeted that she was “monitoring the situation” closely. She went on to slam President Trump, saying, “We must ensure the safety of our servicemembers, including ending needless provocations from the Administration and demanding that Iran cease its violence. America & world cannot afford war.”
“Speaker Pelosi has proven herself time and time again to be completely and totally lacking in any seriousness,” Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, said on Wednesday’s Fox & Friends. “This is a person who told us for months and months that it was urgent for our national security that we impeach President Trump. So the House Democrats impeached him with no direct evidence, and now, she’s been literally sitting on the articles of impeachment ever since.”
She continued, “Now, in the wake of missiles raining down on American service members in Iraq, Speaker Pelosi is saying that it was needless provocation on our part. She’s blaming the United States of America.”
Iran launched a barrage of rocket strikes on U.S. Air Force bases in Iraq early Wednesday morning local time. No American citizens were killed during the strike, according to early reports. The attack was in retaliation to Trump’s decision to take out top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani based on what he said was intelligence that the general was plotting to kill Americans in the region.
Trump is slated to address the nation regarding Iran at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. After the attack, he tweeted, “All is well.”
Democrats have questioned Trump’s motives for striking Soleimani, and some have said the president attacked a foreign nation to distract from his impeachment by the U.S. House.
“This action was taken more in President Trump’s self-interest rather than our national interest,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday.
Liz Cheney, 53, whose father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, was a major proponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, said that Pelosi is an “embarrassment” of a lawmaker.
“I’m frankly surprised, “Liz Cheney said, “that the Democratic caucus continues to support her as their leader and as the speaker of the House.”
