{"id":2104,"date":"2008-02-11T06:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T11:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2008-02-11T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:36:11","slug":"pelosi-two-plus-two-equals-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi:  &#8220;Two Plus Two Equals Fish&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Harry Reid says &#8220;jump&#8221; in the summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0208\/8422.html\">Nancy Pelosi says &#8220;off what?<\/a>&#8221; in the winter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation to Iraq,\u201d Pelosi said on CNN\u2019s \u201cLate Edition.\u201d \u201cThey have not done that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pelosi is depending on the raw ignorance of her own base, here; the surge was intended to kill terrorists and make it safe, or at least much, much safer, to live in Iraq.  Without that, noodling about with politics is superfluous.<\/p>\n<p>But, perhaps sensitive about the mess that her friends in the Bay Area are creating, she hastened to add:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The speaker hastened to add: \u201cThe troops have succeeded, God bless them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One has to wonder; is Nancy Pelosi <em>that <\/em>ignorant a slapnuts?  Or does she merely know that her base is?<br \/>\nSpeaker Pelosi:  If the troops have succeeded, <em>what <\/em>did they succeed <em>at<\/em>?  Their <em>mission<\/em>?  The one you declared a &#8220;failure&#8221; just a few seconds earlier?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; and while counterinsurgency is a matter of patience and subtlety, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article3346386.ece\">she&#8217;s wrong anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Harry Reid says &#8220;jump&#8221; in the summer, Nancy Pelosi says &#8220;off what?&#8221; in the winter: \u201cThe purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation to Iraq,\u201d Pelosi said on CNN\u2019s \u201cLate Edition.\u201d \u201cThey have not done that.\u201d Pelosi is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}