Iraq: Nancy Pelosi Gets Angry With Bush

“With congressional Democrats in a standoff with U.S. President George W. Bush over war funding, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Bush has a ‘tin ear’ and a ‘blind eye’ when it comes to Iraq,” writes IHT.

” ‘He has a tin ear in terms of listening to the people and a blind eye as to what is going on in Iraq,’ Pelosi told a crowd of more than 2,000 people at a lunch event in Chicago.”

I don’t think she used such harsh words against Bush ever.

There is another story ‘US politics playing with Iraqi blood’ (in The Hindustan Times) which reads well along with the above story.

“Bracing for the 2008 presidential election, US Democrats in opposition and the ruling Republicans have embroiled the American public in a political crisis between the executive and legislative powers over deadlines for combat operations in Iraq that could develop into a constitutional showdown…

“But for Arabs, and Iraqis in particular, it is merely playing electoral politics with Iraqi blood for oil because the Democratic alternative for President George W Bush’s strategy, when scrutinised, promises them no fundamental change to the bloody status quo.”

Read on…