General Pelosi disagrees with White House on drawdown pace

Well, you get the government you deserve. Here we are a year from the projected pull out from Afghanistan and already the Administration and the Congress are at odds over how fast we should cut and run. Pelosi and SecDef Gates have vastly disparate views on the pace;

Since when does the Speaker of the House get to decide for the commander in chief? Just write the checks and shut up Pelosi. Politico writes;

Pelosi, who saw 102 of her Democratic colleagues break ranks with President Barack Obama and oppose further war funding in a vote last week, suggested Americans would be disappointed and surprised if the initial withdrawal amounted to only a few thousand troops–a possibility recently laid out by Vice President Joe Biden.

“Well, I hope it is more than that,” Pelosi said. “I know it’s not going to be, ‘Turn out the lights and let’s all go home on one day.’ But I do think the American people expect it to be somewhere between that and a few thousand troops.”

Yes, a slim margin of Democrats broke with the Speaker on funding the war – probably 102 Democrats who won’t be in the House next year. The same peckerwoods who have voted against funding the war since the beginning. So who cares?

Of course that’s been the plan all along – withdraw from Afghanistan while looking like the Administration wants to win. The goal isn’t making Afghanistan safe for us, it’s about ending our involvement no matter what Afghanistan looks like. That’s why there’s a schedule for withdrawal and not a model for success. That’s why that dick Eikenberry is still the ambassador to Afghanistan. He’s been a failure at everything he’s ever done and deflects blame so well.

This is like last year’s tax cut. It was anemic and ineffectual, but the administration points to it every time the coming tax hikes are mentioned as proof that they’re against tax hikes. They’ll do the same in 2012 when they’re accused of losing Afghanistan – they’ll point at the anemic troops increases as proof that they want to win the war.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Congress sucks, Liberals suck, Military issues