Congressman Shinolahead
Thanks to Nancy Pelosi’s mysterious spat with Jane Harman, the American People are about a month away from having an ignorant moron running the House Intelligence Committee: Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX).
Reyes may be a Viet Nam War hero, but he doesn’t know anything about our most recent enemies. When interviewed by the Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein, here’s what Reyes had to say:
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?
“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”
“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.
But that’s not all. Here’s Stein asking Reyes about Hizballah:
And Hezbollah? I asked him. What are they?
“Hezbollah. Uh, Hezbollah…”
He laughed again, shifting in his seat.
“Why do you ask me these questions at five o’clock? Can I answer in Spanish? Do you speak Spanish?”
“Pocito,” I said—a little.
“Pocito?! “ He laughed again.
“Go ahead,” I said, talk to me about Sunnis and Shia in Spanish.
Reyes: “Well, I, uh….”
I apologized for putting him “on the spot a little.” But I reminded him that the people who have killed thousands of Americans on U.S. soil and in the Middle East have been front page news for a long time now.
It’s been 23 years since a Hezbollah suicide bomber killed over 200 U.S. military personnel in Beirut, mostly Marines.
Hezbollah, a creature of Iran, is close to taking over in Lebanon. Reports say they are helping train Iraqi Shiites to kill Sunnis in the spiralling civil war.
“Yeah,” Reyes said, rightly observing, “but . . . it’s not like the Hatfields and the McCoys. It’s a heck of a lot more complex.
What, exactly, did Harman do that made Pelosi mad? Did she flirt with Pelosi’s husband at a cocktail party somewhere? Did Harman once make a catty remark about Pelosi’s shoes?
