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Democrat met opposition leader in Egypt (Steny Hoyer met Muslim Brotherhood's parliament leader)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/7/07 | Nadia Abou El-Magd - ap

Posted on 04/07/2007 3:53:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

Why the surprise? We’ve been asking for democracy in the mideast. The opposition might like us less than the dictators do.


81 posted on 04/07/2007 5:35:47 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: toddlintown

OMG!! Well said! And there will be no repercussions, as usual.


82 posted on 04/07/2007 5:36:07 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: Txsleuth

Oh, dear person - thank you!


83 posted on 04/07/2007 5:36:50 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: mewzilla
Weird.......not really

Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria. Pelosi shook the hands with "the president (Syria's Basher al-Assad) of one of the worst repressive, totalitarian regimes," the dissident Brotherhood said in a statement. Syria "still carries out political arrests and torture...and is responsible for the disappearance of thousands of dissidents as well as the forced exile of many others," a Brotherhood leader, Ali Sadr al-Din al-Bayanuni, said in the statement.

The Brotherhood is trying to overthrow Basher as well to install a Islamic theocracy.

To a Jihadist, Basher is just the opposite end of the spectrum, the dictator blocking their objectives to live under Sharia Law

84 posted on 04/07/2007 5:37:51 PM PDT by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: James W. Fannin

It’s a constitutional separation of powers question.

Neither of these meetings , while perhaps not technically illegal considering the current state of affairs, are not to seemly anyway you view them, nonetheless, coupled with their’s and others overall reaching-out effort to the more suspect leaders on the Middle East also has a tremendous potential of use as propaganda and clearly circumvents the President in performing the duties and responsibility to handling the foreign affairs side of things...

I don’t particularly care for a “democracy” established that leaves a back door open for the dems to wander in and out whenever it is convenient for them on a first name basis, regardless the effect on our nation and allies or which party holds the WH.


85 posted on 04/07/2007 5:49:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... BumP'n'Run 'Right-Wing Extremist' since 2001 ... My profile is on FiRe!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yes, back on the real topic: what matters to America and our interests. I agree on all points - Pelosi is a loose canon.


86 posted on 04/07/2007 5:51:25 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: NormsRevenge

HA! The party of terrorists. The DNC never met a terrorist they didn’t like and think they could do business with.


87 posted on 04/07/2007 5:58:09 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("Hard is not Hopeless" General Petraeus)
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To: NormsRevenge; Cicero; mewzilla; Ziva

From http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/52768.htm

Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. was sworn in as Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt on August 26, 2005. He was nominated by President Bush on July 25, 2005, and confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2005. Ambassador Ricciardone previously served as Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau from 2002 to 2005. Prior to that, Ambassador Ricciardone served as Director of the Department’s Task Force on the Coalition Against Terrorism and as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service. From March 1999 until early 2001, he served as the Secretary of State’s Special Coordinator for the Transition of Iraq.

Ambassador Ricciardone was born in Boston and graduated from Malden Catholic High School. Upon graduation summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973, he received a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and study in Italy. He went to Iran as a teacher in 1976, traveling widely in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Middle East until he entered the Foreign Service in 1978.

Ambassador Ricciardone’s Foreign Service assignments include two tours in Turkey, most recently (1995-1999) as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires; and service in Cairo, Amman, and London. He served in two multinational military deployments: as chief of the Civilian Observer Unit of the Multinational Force and Observers in Egypt’s Sinai Desert, and as Political Advisor to the U.S. and Turkish commanding generals of Operation Provide Comfort, based in Turkey and operating in Iraq. In Washington, DC, Ambassador Ricciardone has served in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and in senior management positions under the Director General of the Foreign Service and of Human Resources. He has won high awards for policy and program management and for political reporting.

Mr. Ricciardone speaks Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and French. (End)

I dunno between maybe some bugs and maybe a full blown traitor. I hope to God it’s bugs.


88 posted on 04/07/2007 5:59:07 PM PDT by Sal (It's EVIL to SLOW BLEED our troops and our country.)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

That’s it. I can’t look at this stuff anymore. This is too much. Just send my Burka to my forwarding address. Adiós Pelosi borderbots.


89 posted on 04/07/2007 6:14:52 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Earthdweller

LOL,,,Can’t Tango in a Burka *<(;0)


90 posted on 04/07/2007 6:19:46 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
Call me for a Tango when the cold war is over. Come back alive or send me a broken sword.
91 posted on 04/07/2007 6:26:15 PM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: NormsRevenge
WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? AT A MINIMUM, SOME DEMOCRATS NEED THEIR PASSPORTS REVOKED.
92 posted on 04/07/2007 6:27:20 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: NormsRevenge
Federal marshals need to meet the planes of these politicians when they land in US territory, and they need to be clapped in irons and (to quote the dems), "frog marched" off to a federal judge to be charged with violations of federal law, and their congressional oath (yeah, right) to uphold the constitution, which they've clearly violated.

Mark

93 posted on 04/07/2007 6:29:24 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: Txsleuth

What long war thread? WOT? Iraq? Afghanistan? Something else? I feel like there’s something I should know here but missed? Or is this just a group for the “in” crowd, lol?

Cindie


94 posted on 04/07/2007 6:29:37 PM PDT by gardencatz (Your son might be an honor student, but mine's a US Marine...it can't always be someone else's son!)
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To: NormsRevenge
"A top U.S. Democratic congressman met a leading member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed opposition group, during a recent visit to the country..."

Well why not? I mean, they are on the same side!

95 posted on 04/07/2007 6:31:12 PM PDT by meyer (Bring back the Contract with America and you'll bring back the Republican majority.)
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To: SandRat

IIRC, Al Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s operations officer, was a high “muckety-muck” in the muslim brotherhood, before escaping from Egypt.

That would be the #2 man in Al Queda, Nan and Stenny!

Mark


96 posted on 04/07/2007 6:32:23 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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To: Earthdweller

Keep them dancin’ shoes ready...;0)


97 posted on 04/07/2007 6:35:56 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: StormEye

“Looks like the makings of some sort of alliance between
the DemonRAT Party and totalitarian Islamic crazies.”

I’ve thought there was an alliance for a long time.


98 posted on 04/07/2007 6:37:44 PM PDT by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT(everything not sourced should be regarded as IMO))
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To: NormsRevenge; All

I wonder if Ellison went along. The media has been completely silent on Keith Ellison’s participation. If anyone runs across anything, please ping me.


99 posted on 04/07/2007 6:37:47 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Txsleuth
I have had Fox News on all day...I haven’t heard anything about this..

Give it some time. They seem to pick up on a lot that is said on our site, a lot of which will never reach the Lame Stream Media.

It's time for the AG to start earning his pay by going after these traitors.

100 posted on 04/07/2007 6:37:56 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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