Note to Premature "Speaker" Pelosi

Madame Premature Speaker,

You don't have a clue.

On June 21, 2005, MINORITY leader Nancy Pelosi made this absurd statement to a reporter:

"I assume that the war in Afghanistan is over, or is the contention that you have that it continues?"

She went on to say:

"The war in Afghanistan is over."

At the time, I was amazed that the Dem leader in the House would be spreading such misinformation about the War on Terror.

Pelosi, as the obviously surgically altered face of the Democratic Party, proved that the Dems didn't get it.

Today, nearly a year after her idiotic remarks about Afghanistan, we see that the struggle there continues.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Some of the fiercest violence since the Taliban's ouster in 2001 erupted across southern Afghanistan, with militants battling U.S. and Canadian forces, detonating car bombs and attacking a small village. Up to 105 people were killed, officials said Thursday.

Much of the violence occurred in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, where thousands of extra NATO troops are scheduled to deploy this summer to counter an increasing number of attacks from a stubborn insurgency.

The Taliban death toll from fighting Wednesday night and Thursday ranged up to 87, U.S. and Afghan officials said. Also, 15 Afghan police officers, one American civilian, a Canadian soldier and an Afghan civilian were killed in the attacks.

The Canadian [Capt. Nichola Goddard, 26, of Calgary] was the first female soldier from her nation to die in combat.

Simply put, the Democrats do not understand our enemies, nor do they comprehend the magnitude of the terrorist threat.

The war in Afghanistan is NOT over.

We aren't at war with a country. We are at war with an ideology.

The only borders in this War on Terror are found in the minds of those that believe slaughtering non-Muslim men, women, and children is what God wants.

Pelosi doesn't get it.

The Democrats don't get it.

They can't be trusted to keep the country safe from terrorists and do battle with our enemies.

They have their eyes wide shut.

(In Pelosi's case, I don't think it's possible for her to physically close her eyes. Her eyelids appear to be too taut to allow that.)