Posted on 05/18/2008 1:40:06 PM PDT by kingattax
The arrival of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who came to Baghdad on Saturday with a congressional delegation, set off a now-familiar cycle of reaction in the Iraqi capital. First there was buzz around the city about flight delays from Baghdad International Airport, which goes into lockdown when VIPs land or takeoff. Since no dust storms were grounding flights, anyone traveling could have assumed some American bigwig was heading in. But when local TV reported the visitor was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, there was a collective shrug of the kind you might expect from Republicans catching a glimpse of her somewhere in McCain country.
Pelosi is something of a nonentity to average Iraqis. If they know who she is at all, she is generally seen as an antiwar caricature figure, someone whose views on U.S. troop withdrawals are widely considered unrealistic. Pelosi has said she wants to see most U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the 2008, a time frame virtually no Iraqi political leader sees as feasible. Not even Mahdi Army militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, the fiercest advocate of a U.S. withdrawal on the scene, has called for such a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces. Rather, Sadr contends that the Americans should simply announce a reasonable timetable for the departure of U.S. forces.
The lack of popularity of Pelosi's views was evident in the fact that her first day on the ground Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not make an effort to see her. Maliki is currently in the northern city of Mosul overseeing a crackdown on insurgent networks there. But the city has been largely quiet in recent days, and there was no obvious pressing reason for the prime minister to skip Pelosi's arrival.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
What’s Nancy’s carbon footprint for this trip?
"Mahmood .. our flight, it is delayed ... that stupid broad from the great Satan again"
First describing how soldiers, pro-American allies ignore Pelosi.
But then the author shifts to bombs and rockets going off when Condoleeza Rice went there.
Article: But within hours of Rice's arrival, TV news was crackling with word of it, and soon thereafter a volley of mortars fell on the Green Zone in an obvious message from Rice's detractors. No rockets or mortars were heard heading into the Green Zone today as word of Pelosi's presence hit the Iraqi airwaves in what amounted to a daytime news blip.
It starts out about Nancy and our troops. And no fanfare or bombs for Ole Nance. Then switches to comparing Condoleeza's visit to Nancy's -- showing how much the Terrorists like Ole Nancy. Which, obviously, to the author's mindset means -- since our troops didn't set of mortars aiming for Nancy, this means they like her too.
Yep, Ole' Nance is still their Girl.
Yes, yes, I know.. someone should be checking the author of this article's meds...
I read that as negative, too. Pelosi is ignored by the Iraqi government and the troops. Rice is greeted by terrorist violence. The implication is that not even the terrorists can be bothered to greet Nancy in their peculiar way. Or at least that’s how I read it.
I wasn't sure what to make of it.
Pelosi ought to make every true Constitutionalist sick to their stomach. She and her Obamanation of a nominee are not friends to Iraq. She went and embraced a man responsible for the death of many Iraqis, Lebanese and Israelis: the man who sheltered murderers—Assad of Syria.
Her Obamanational nominee wants to negotiate with Ahmandinejead of Iran who recently called Israel a “stinking corpse”.
Democrats ought not be in charge of our government, yet because of the weak-kneed, panty-waist, pathetic Republicans we have people like Pelosi running the legislative branch. What a shame.
The Beast has the claim patented.
I wasn't sure what to make of it.
Spin from the times, IMHO
Well, of course the insurgents aren’t going to bomb Pelosi. She’s their allie
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Irans Amahajinadad Had the same Welcome as Pelosi and Nary a Bomb at the Green Zone either! Coincidence..?
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