Pelosi credits "Iran's Goodwill" for Iraq Surge success

by Infidelesto on May 29, 2008 · View Comments

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Nevermind the report from Patraeus that Iran is supplying the insurgency and engaging in direct combat with American soldiers.

A reprehensible statement, especially for the families who’ve lost loved ones at the hands of Iranian forces in Iraq.

Shame shame shame….

SFGate (via Commentary Magazine)

In an interview yesterday with the San Francisco Chronicle, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed the U.S. troop surge failed to accomplish its goal. She then partially credited the success of the troop surge to “the goodwill of the Iranians,” claiming that they were responsible for ending violence in the southern city of Basra.

Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded:

Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.

This is an inexcusable slander.

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