Many Surprised as Pelosi Calls for a Fast Pullout

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s embrace Wednesday of a rapid withdrawal from Iraq highlighted the Democratic Party’s fissures on war policy, putting the House’s top Democrat at odds with her second in command while upsetting a consensus developing in the Senate.
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“If Karl Rove was writing the timing of this, he wouldn’t have written it any differently, with the president of the United States expressing resolve and the Democratic leader offering surrender,” Wittmann said, referring to Bush’s top adviser. “For Republicans, this is manna from heaven.”

David Sirota, a Democratic strategist in Montana long critical of the party leadership’s timidity, fired back: “It is not surprising that a bunch of insulated elitists in the Washington establishment — most of whom have never served in uniform — would stab the Democratic Party in the back and attack the courage of people like Vietnam War hero Jack Murtha and Nancy Pelosi for their stand on Iraq.”

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