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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appeared before a group of legal and illegal immigrants in San Francisco at the St. Anthony Church recently and said that it is “un-American to enforce immigration law.” The Speaker said, “we’ll protect Illegal Immigrants’ right to work.” Is Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for Americans or un-American? http://www.thedailychange.com/nancy-pelosi-for-americans-or-un-american/

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...

INTERVIEW-Iraq says al Qaeda exploiting U.S. disunity over war By Ross Colvin and Dean Yates BAGHDAD, April 29 (Reuters) - The political battle in Washington over a Democratic plan to pull U.S. troops from Iraq is being exploited by al Qaeda, which has stepped up attacks to hasten a withdrawal, Iraq's foreign minister said on Sunday. Hoshiyar Zebari said Iraq had become "entangled" in domestic politics in the United States, where there is growing impatience for progress in reconciling the country's warring sects. U.S. President George W. Bush has vowed to veto a war spending bill that requires combat troops...