I guess she thinks being Speaker of the House means you cannot be criticized.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney's comments that the Congressional Democrats' plan for Iraq would "validate the Al Qaeda strategy."

Pelosi, who said she could not reach the president, said Cheney's comments wrongly questioned critics' patriotism and ignored Bush's call for openness on Iraq strategy.

"You cannot say as the president of the United States, 'I welcome disagreement in a time of war,' and then have the vice president of the United States go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position of authority is acting against the national security of our country," the speaker said.

The quarrel began in Tokyo, where Cheney used an interview to criticize Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., over their plan to place restrictions on Bush's request for an additional $93 billion for the Iraq war to make it difficult or impossible to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq.

"I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy," the vice president told ABC News. "The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit."

It seems that Pelosi thinks that she and Murtha and the rest of the Neo-Copperheads are immune from criticism -- because no one can seriously argue that Cheney's comments are wrong. That is not to say that the DemocratICK leaders support al-Qaeda or share their ideology, simply to note that the course of action they are taking is precisely in line with the stated goal of al-Qaeda leaders to wear down America's political will. What else can you call the position taken by the new DemocrtICK majority and their White Flag Republican cohorts in seeking unilateral capitulation in Iraq?

Sorry, but it seems to me that the biggest gripe these folks have is not that Cheney is wrong, but rather that he is speaking an inconvenient truth.

H/T Gateway Pundit

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