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Romney: Pelosi Trying to 'Exploit' Needs of Citizens with Iraq War Plan

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March 09, 2007 11:47 AM

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: In a radio interview on the conservative "Laura Ingraham Show", Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attacking the House Democrats' proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by August, 2008. 

"Nancy Pelosi's effort to link spending which is necessary for our citizens to the management of the war is really a very unsatisfactory course," Romney told Ingraham.

"I mean frankly she's trying to exploit the needs of our citizens to allow herself to be insinuated into the conduct of the war. And that is not the right course for managing the war," said the former Massachusetts governor.

Romney warned against allowing Congress to micromanage the war in Iraq.

"The right course is to allow our national military to be managed by a Commander-in-Chief," he said. "And we have one Commander-in-Chief, not 535."

Romney also suggested that the Democrats' plan could create more havoc in the middle-east region.

"If we bring them home too quickly, or in a way which leads to a collapse of the country, or perhaps the Iranians grabbing the Shia south, or Al-Qaeda playing a dominating role among the Sunnis, or a Kurdish population destabilizing the border with Turkey," he said, "you could then end up with a regional conflict which would cause Americans to somehow have to get involved again, this time at a much more ugly situation with more casualties."

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Not to worry -- experience shows Romney's position will change at least once before he is defeated in the primaries

Posted by: Political Animal | Mar 9, 2007 12:51:40 PM

Nancy Pelosi's effort to link spending which is necessary for our citizens to the management of the war is really a very unsatisfactory course

Answer: your Republican party has Raped the american blind on your course! Pelosi has displayed clear leadership.

"I mean frankly she's trying to exploit the needs of our citizens to allow herself to be insinuated into the conduct of the war. And that is not the right course for managing the war," said the former Massachusetts governor.

Answer: your MA record shoes that you held residents as hostages by incompentent budget dictatorship; further your record shows that you exploted MA residents at DC parties. Shame on you! You have NO experience to speak relative to WAR planning.

"The right course is to allow our national military to be managed by a Commander-in-Chief," he said. "And we have one Commander-in-Chief, not 535."

ANSWER:
The right course HAS BEEN
6 years of
failed polices,
failed actions,
failed in-actions,
failed planning,
failed organizations,
failed leadership and appointments,
failed veterans benefits,
failed military health care, failed budgets,
FAILURES litter the streets by your Commander in Chief.

leads to a collapse of the country

then end up with a regional conflict

ANSWER: Already happened,

You are not qualified to lead either. Go back to Baghdad for 30 days live outside the green zone. Then return to Utah and find a mole, you belong.

Another wantabeeeeeeee

Posted by: watch out | Mar 9, 2007 9:02:58 PM

Where did all the money go ? Funny that doesn't stay in the news.

Posted by: Ray Hober | Mar 11, 2007 7:13:43 AM

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