Languedoc liberal alert!
Today Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D - Baghdad) is planning to vent a little over foreign policy. She will ask why Rosa Luxembourg and the Spartacist League are not being supported in their strike against war. Ooops, wrong speech.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will sharply challenge the Bush administration's conduct of foreign policy today in a speech that urges the United States to use its influence to promote "democratic values" around the globe.

I'd say that turfing out Saddam fits that description nicely.

Staking out a role as her party's top critic of a war in Iraq, the San Francisco congresswoman will unambiguously reaffirm her opposition to an attack on Iraq in a high-profile address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

"I do not believe that going to war now is the best way to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction," Pelosi says in an advance copy of her speech provided Thursday to The Chronicle. "Before going to war, we must exhaust all alternatives, such as the continuation of inspections, diplomacy and the leverage provided by the threat of military action."

Nancy apparently hasn't been keeping up on current events. Hell, she hasn't been keeping up on 12 years of Iraq history.

And stand by for the obligatory "I'm really reasonable" weaseling:

"I am not in the category of people who say, no war under any circumstances, " Pelosi told reporters early Thursday, hours before the president's nationally televised press conference. "I am just saying at this time, is this the best remedy to the problem that we have?"

Pelosi returned this weekend from a trip to Kuwait, Qatar and Turkey, where she met with troops and military leaders, and called on Turkey -- in the event of war -- to allow Americans to use its land as a staging area for soldiers.

"Even though I oppose the war now, I still would have hoped that the Turks would have accepted our troops there," Pelosi said.

The only problem, Nancy, is that you would never get around to military action - no matter how long Saddam pissed in your soup.

And can you imagine being a soldier and having to put on a smiling face when this back-stabbing sleazoid comes to visit the troops?