Cheney Yanks Pelosi's Chain

VP: QUIT WHINING, NANCY
February 24, 2007 -- WASHINGTON -
Vice President Dick Cheney refused yesterday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition to the Iraq war is playing into the hands of al Qaeda.
Pelosi and The Cut and Run Democrats can't handle the truth.
Terrorists See Breaking America’s Will as Road to Victory
Aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. Cheney is being interviewed by Jonathan Karl with ABC, and Karl says, “Because Congressman Murtha and Pelosi have made it clear that what they would like to do is they would like to stop the surge, can they do it? Do they have the power to stop the surge?”

CHENEY: I think he's dead wrong. I think in fact if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the Al-Qaeda strategy. The Al-Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people. In fact, knowing they can't win in a stand-up fight, try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit. American Forces Press Service

Pelosi all bent out of shape tries to call Bush to
Complain of Cheney's Comments on Democrats' Iraq Strategy.
She couldn't reach the President.

Later, Pelosi said she had tried to reach the president but was only able to get through to White House chief of staff Josh Bolten.

Bolten said he was certain no one was questioning her patriotism or commitment to national security, she told reporters.

"I said to him perhaps when he saw what the vice president said he might have another comment," Pelosi said. White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said Cheney "was not questioning anyone's patriotism." But she said Bush and Cheney believe that Pelosi and Murtha's "position to immediately pull out our troops would be harmful to our national security and that it is the wrong strategy to pursue."

Rush Quote:
"The Democrat Party is now laying the foundation for its eventual landslide defeat à la Vietnam. They want another Vietnam in Iraq. If they succeed, they're going to get it in every way, including an eventual landslide defeat, maybe not in '08. Soon thereafter it will happen. Because it's very simple. We, the American people, do not like to lose wars, contrary to the popular media belief, contrary to the media spin that's out there every day that the American people are sick and tired and want to get out
-- we don't want to lose."