Right On The Right

Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer, called our ongoing military action in Iraq a failure, despite major gains under General Petraeus. Bryan from Hot Air has the exchange documented, along with the response from House Minority Leader John Boehner. Take a look at:

Congressman Boehner was pushing hard on the Hill to give General Petraeus time to make his changes in strategy, and time on the ground to fix Iraq. Now that he has that time, there have been plenty of improvements in the state of security. Reconciliation is not coming from the top down as we expected, but rather from the bottom-up, as I discussed recently. Bryan sums it up best:

But now that even Pelosi has to recognize that the surge has worked militarily, the Democrats are shifting to accelerating pulling out because the Iraqi government hasn’t met each and every benchmark of success yet. Pelosi and her ilk are dangerously irresponsible and in denial of the fact that they have been dead wrong about the surge for a year and that their unnamed retired generals are wrong now. These people have never wanted to give either the surge or the Iraqi government one of the most important things that both needed to be able to reach success: Time.