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Pelosi OK with 'Diverse' Iraq Positions
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi believes Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, saying that differing positions are a source of strength for the party. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and a new course is needed, but the war is a matter of individual conscience and House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, the California Congresswoman told the Washington Post on Thursday. "There is no one Democratic voice … and there is no one Democratic position," she said. Pelosi recently backed the proposal by Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) for a swift redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq over six months, but other party leaders did not endorse it and House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) publicly opposed her. Her comments ruling out a caucus position appeared to be at odds with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who recently said Democrats "were beginning to coalesce around a strategy that would pull out all troops over the next two years,” the Post reported. Pelosi opposed the war, arguing that Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat to the United States.
In her wide-ranging interview with the Post, Pelosi also claimed that if the 2006 elections were held today, the Democrats would take control of the House.
Meanwhile, House Republicans are planning to seek a vote on a resolution saying that an "artificial timetable" for the withdrawal of troops is "fundamentally inconsistent with achieving victory in Iraq."
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