BBC: Bush rival breaks Syria boycott ~ Pelosi visits Syria....

BBC ^ | Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 15:26 GMT 16:26 UK | BBC Staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Bush rival breaks Syria boycott

Ms Pelosi has already visited Israel, the West Bank and Lebanon

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in the Syrian capital for a visit which the White House has criticised as undermining US policy.

She was received in Damascus by Foreign Minister Walid Muallim and is expected to meet President Bashar al-Assad.

The top Democrat brushed off criticism, saying dialogue with Syria was key to solving the Iraq and Lebanon crises.

The Republican Bush administration has boycotted Syria since the 2005 murder of Lebanon's former PM Rafik Hariri.

President Bush said Ms Pelosi's trip to Syria sent "mixed signals" that undermine US-led efforts to isolate the Syrian president.

"Photo opportunities and/or meetings with President Assad lead the Assad government to believe they're part of the mainstream of the international community, when, in fact, they're a state sponsor of terror," Mr Bush said.

'Brave lady'

Ms Pelosi is reported to be the highest-ranking US politician to visit Syria since bilateral relations deteriorated in 2003, when the US invaded neighbouring Iraq.

Syrian state media have hailed the visit as "positive", with the Syria Times describing Ms Pelosi as a "brave lady".

"American legislators, Democrats as well as Republicans, are aware that US policy in the region, especially the war in Iraq and its ties with Syria, is a fiasco that must be repaired," said Tishrin newspaper.

"(Syria) is ready for serious and sincere dialogue with the US officials," it added, saying it saw "great hopes of a rebalancing of US policy in the region".

A UN investigation has implicated Syrian officials in the killing of Mr Hariri, despite a strong denial from Damascus.

Ms Pelosi has already held talks in Israel, and correspondents say she is expected to transmit Israel's views on the long-stalled Syria-Israel peace track.

Syria demands the return of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel in 1967.

[joe fonebone]

she is in violation of the law.....rufuse to allow her back in the country

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

'Slap in the Face': Republicans in Damascus Hold to Bush 'Strategy'; Meet with Opposition Leader

[rhombus]

Quick someone post the picture of Nancy wearing a headscarf... it’s on the DrudgeReport. I hear she supports the ERA. Hahahaha

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Pelosi in proper attire....Burkha is for later:

[Bahbah]

[SMARTY]

“(Syria) is ready for serious and sincere dialogue with the US officials,” it added, saying it saw “great hopes of a rebalancing of US policy in the region”.

BS!!!! How ready can they be if they want to waste words with a preson who is NOT a decision-maker or a policy-maker.

[lilylangtree]

Notice to any and all al quaida members, take her and don’t bring her back.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The one above?

[SF Republican]

[pgyanke]

That’s... not... photoshopped... is it...? Oh my!

[pabianice]

Traitor

[puppypusher]

President Bush or Condi Rice have to make a public statement saying that Pelosi does not represent the Policy or views of the United States and that she went over to syria as a private citizen.

That would be a pretty good smack down.

[tobyhill]

If she makes any offer on behalf of the US in the expectation of receiving anything from Syria then she has basically committed treason because we’re at war with terrorist and Syria supports terrorist.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Root canal ?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Proof of the thesis of this book:

Probably the reason she is visiting.....

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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
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A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia.

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

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[rhombus]

Yup. Thanks to all. Yeah that Nancy, she’s really come a long way, baby. Taking a stand for women’s rights. What a leader. Hahahaha

[viper592]

Maybe we will get lucky and Assad will keep her as one of his wives.

[iopscusa]

Pabianice-good link on the Previous Copperheads:
The most prominent Copperhead leader was Clement L. Valladigham of Ohio, who headed the secret antiwar organization known as the Sons of Liberty.....at the Democratic convention of 1864....Vallandigham persuaded the party to adopt a platform branding the war a failure, and some extreme Copperheads plotted armed uprisings...assured Lincoln’s reelection, and the plots came to nothing...with the conclusion of the war in 1865 the Peace Democrats were thoroughly discredited. Most Northerners believed, not without reason, that Peace Democrats had prolonged war by encouraging the South to continue fighting in the hope thatthe North would abandon the struggle.
Source: “Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War” Edited by Patricia L. Faust

[EagleUSA]

The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us,

Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.
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And he is so right. The radical pinko left will align with every enemy of this country for the sake of obtaining and maintaining power and control over this country. The enemy within — the left.