Speaker Hastert Comments on Democrat Leader Pelosi's War on Terror Views from 60 Minutes Interview
Speaker Hastert Comments on Democrat Leader Pelosi's War on Terror Views from 60 Minutes Interview
Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement regarding Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi's comments on 60 Minutes this weekend:
"The current battle being waged to protect America's freedom and the freedom of millions around the world is called the Global War on Terror. It is not fought in just one country. It is not even fought in one hemisphere. It is fought on a global scale. That is why Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi's comments are irresponsible. Is the Democrat Minority Leader really turning a blind eye towards the countless number of terrorists that we are fighting in the streets and battlefields of Iraq and also in numerous countries around the world? Does she forget the nearly 3,000 victims of September 11th? The 201 victims of the Madrid train bombings? And the 52 victims of the London bomb attacks? These were all innocent victims of the Global War on Terror. And what about the countless others who have been saved because of our efforts?
"The Minority Leader continued with her comments to say that terrorists are in Iraq because America is there and that the threats would disappear if we were to leave. She could not be further from reality. If the United States had not brought the fight to foreign soil, terrorists wouldn't disappear - they would deploy to the United States. This President and this Congress have chosen to go on the offensive and take the fight to the terrorists before we have to fight them in American neighborhoods.
"These comments should act as a bellwether for the American people. One cannot win the Global War on Terror if one does not understand it. If it were up to a Democrat majority, it would cut and run from the Global War on Terror, continue to coddle terrorists, create a United States Department of Peace* and call it a day. Democrat Leader Pelosi would trust the terrorists to give up their objective and play nice in exchange for the United States leaving Iraq. This outlook is foolish, naïve, and dangerous."
Pelosi Quotes:
"The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan." -Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi comments from CBS's 60 Minutes interview
During her interview Mrs. Pelosi also acknowledged that there are terrorists within Iraq. "But that doesn't mean we stay there. They'll stay there as long as we're there. They're there because we're there."
http://speaker.house.gov/library/terrorism/061024PelosiViews.shtml