Reply #106: We need to spread the word that Pelosi has made a partial confession

[Kaleko]

in this interview. This is the first time I've heard Pelosi make some actual sense when explaining why impeachment is off the table. Why? Well, because it would implicate all the Dems who voted for the Iraq war as aiding and abetting in high treason.


Once again, in Pelosi's own words from the OP (my bold and comments in brackets):


"I have my own--what's the word I usually use about this--grievances about Democrats who voted for this war. We had a word that there was no intelligence to support an imminent threat to the United States. There was nothing. But when I was running to be Speaker they said, if you go against this war you will never go any place in this party. You're probably one of thirty-five people going against this war. I told them, I may be the only one but I won't be voting for this war. I had to oppose many Democrats, including the whip. That was a big deal."


(Right, so with that, Pelosi has absolved herself, she's been white-washed in her own mind. And now she goes on to point an accusing finger at her Democratic colleagues):


"And also the Senate voted the wrong way -- voted to give him the authority to go to war and use that power when there was absolutely nothing in the intelligence to support the imminent threat that the Administration was claiming...You've heard me say this before...when I said that at the time, they said you're calling the President a liar...I said I'm stating a fact. As it turns out, everybody knew that he didn't have..."


(What? A shred of evidence of WMDs?


"...And now everyone's blaming it on the faulty intelligence. It wasn't there. So in terms of why should he be impeached? Because he took us to war? Well what about these other people who voted for that war with no evidence to tell them that this war...?"

(...was legitimate?)


"Are they going to be voting with us to impeach the President? Where are these Democrats going to be? Are they going to be voting for us to impeach a President who took us to war on information that they had also?"


See? Pelosi is accusing Dems who voted for the war, such as Hillary Clinton, of being determined to sabotage any impeachment investigations because of their complicity in Bush's policies. This amounts to a criminal conspiracy, folks.