Run time: 04:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq9ukAIjNKw
Posted on YouTube: August 30, 2006
By YouTube Member: NancyPelosi
Views on YouTube: 19010
Posted on DU: November 13, 2006
By DU Member: bridgit
Views on DU: 897 |
'Pelosi responds to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's speech in which he said Iraq war critics are essentially like Nazi era appeasers:
What the Secretary must be forgetting is that what emboldens the enemy is sending our troops into the line of fire without the equipment they need to protect themselves and get the job done. What emboldens the enemy is sending them there without the military intelligence to get the job done. What emboldens the enemy is our lack of knowledge of the ground truth - or maybe we are in denial about what is actually happening there. Democrats are deadly serious about providing for the common defense and in order to do so, you must know your enemy. Clearly the Bush Administration did not when it went to Iraq. In order to protect the American people, you have to know your power. And we are diminishing that power by this war on Iraq. This is the wrong war. It is not the war on terror. We should have stayed in Afghanistan, with fuller force, longer to get the job done there.'