Pullen Asks for Mitchell for an Apology

Phoenix, AZ —Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen today said freshmen Democrat Harry Mitchell should apologize for comments his Democrat US House Speaker made yesterday at a press conference when she said, matter-of-factly, that Republicans like war.

"Our Commander in Chief, President Bush, placed his trust in a great military leader and strategist, General David Petraeus, and with our courageous American troops have embarked on a ‘surge strategy’ in Iraq that has the enemy on the run," said Pullen. "For this same Democrat Speaker of the House who has soiled her hands and the reputation of our great nation by consorting and negotiating with known sponsors of terrorism to now say Republicans like war is offensive and deserving of an apology."

At a press conference yesterday, Democrat US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said: "The [Democrat] grassroots are justifiably disappointed, and I am too, that we could not do something to end this war. The assumption that I made, that the Republicans would soon see the light… They like this war."

Speaker Pelosi’s comments come on the heels of increasingly vitriolic Democrat rhetoric. Earlier this year, Democrat Whip James Clyburn (D-South Carolina) let slip the Democrats’ anti-war election strategy when he professed that success in Iraq would be "a real big problem for us." And, on the actual floor of the US House, Democrat Congressman Pete Stark (D-California), a senior Democrat Member of Congress, accused President Bush of getting actual "amusement" from the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq.

"It’s one thing for Harry Mitchell to campaign on protecting our borders and protecting our county and then vote to weaken our national security – that’s a matter for him to discuss with the voters of Arizona’s 5th District," Pullen said. "But when he campaigns here in Arizona, and raises money here in Arizona, with a San Francisco liberal who is willing to say or do anything – including accuse Republicans of liking war – to get their tax-and-spend, surrender-at-all-costs majority reelected, Harry Mitchell needs to apologize for the actions of his leadership."