Syria Visit: Pelosi Overrules President Bush
Why is President Bush so adamant in preventing the planned visit to Syria next week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
“Ms. Pelosi is leading a bipartisan delegation on a weeklong tour of the Middle East that is scheduled to include a meeting with Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
And also the Boston Herald report: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned as a sponsor of terrorism, despite being asked by the administration not to go.
â€? ‘In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort of high-profile visitors to Syria,’ State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Friday.
“Pelosi arrived in Israel on Friday in what is her second fact-finding trip to the Middle East since taking over leadership in the House in January.
“Her repeat trip, an indication she plans to play a role in foreign policy, is also a direct affront to the administration, which says such diplomatic overtures by lawmakers can do more harm than good…”
18 Responses to “Syria Visit: Pelosi Overrules President Bush”
Because she feels that Bush is incompetent? Maybe we can get her to recind the masive economic pakage Bush gave away to India for nothing in return? Mangos, sorry it was for mangos somehow that slipped my mind. We should save a few AMERICA JOBS in the process.
You’re sounding REAL wingnutish right now W.A.
Just as bad as those liberal and conservative pundits and wingers that are on here. cut the bullsh*t.
She shouldn’t have to go, but since the bubble boys in the White House won’t engage our enemies in a dialog, someone has to do it.
Lack of open communication caused World War I, and it almost started a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. We can’t afford to shut each other out.
I wouldn’t believe anything the current Administration tells me about the Middle East and I have a great deal of skepticism about the governments there.
I wouldn’t either Jim S, but this will be fodder for Conservatives smelling the blood in the water. Somehow, I’d feel better about this if she went as part of an international delegation.
Foreign policy is the Constitutional responsibility of the Executive Branch, not the Legislative Branch.
And yes, I objected back in the Clinton years when Republicans went on junkets against the State Department and President’s wishes to undermine him as well.
It is wrong for either party to do.
wake up!! learn the truth! You have bene fooled long enough! Syria is not the enemy…never has!! …Pelosi has more balls than all then men in the white house combined with those ball-less conservative fanatics (Perle….wolfowitz…the ones behind the mess!!
The alternative is for our Congress to get all of its information about the international community solely from 3rd party sources. Then they’ll need to vote.
I’m not so sure that’s a sound policy either.
Personally I am very proud that Speaker Pelosi is representing my interests in Damascus. Certainly she will bring back new insight and I’m sure Congress shall respond accordingly. Her courage and initiative is far far better than the last Speaker of the “people’s” House of Representatives. Whatever his name was.
My understanding is that the delegation consists of both Democrats and Republicans.
Both branches have a responsibility for foreign policy.
Senators and Congressmen often travel abroad for fact finding and diplomatic initiatives. This is especially pertinent when the President is hinting that he might want to go to war against another nation.
Syria implicated in death of Hariri
UN investigation points finger at Damascus, but Syrian leaders deny allegations.
By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
posted October 21, 2005 at 11:30 a.m.
A United Nations report that accuses Syrian and Lebanese officials of orchestrating an intricate plot to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is expected to bring a swift call for action from the UN Security Council. Reuters reports that both Syria and Lebanese President Emile Lahood are trying to distance themselves from the UN investigation.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1021/dailyUpdate.html
To opine reasonably about this trip, one would have to know how informed or how gullible the delegation is.
It can’t hurt for them to say ‘hello’, but whether or not they will actually learn anything believable, is a big questionmark.
Since it has become obvious that our illustrious secretary of state is incapable of communicating with anyone on our behalf in a rational,productive manner,without first getting approval from her husband,G.W.,then I think that Nancy deserves a shot.I mean,really,can she do any worse than Condi,who has all the charm and personality of someone braindead? Our current Ambassador of death does not speak for me.She has managed,in her ineptitude and lack of empathy to turn the entire Arab world against the U.S.If G.W. wants to go it alone,fine.Let him go to Bagdad and dodge bullets and show us all just how brave he really is and put his money where his mouth is.Let him prove how dedicated he really is about this so called war on terror.
White House Official Criticizes Pelosi Visit to Syria (Update1)
By Laura Litvan and Brendan Murray
March 30 (Bloomberg) — A White House spokeswoman denounced a plan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit officials in Syria as part of a trip to the Middle East.
Pelosi’s outreach to a state sponsor of terrorism is a “really bad idea,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said at a briefing in Washington. “Someone should take a step back and think about the message that it sends and the message that it sends to our allies.”
Perino’s remarks come as a group of Republican lawmakers has embarked on their own trip to Syria. Michael Lowry, a spokesman for Representative Robert Aderholt, said that the Alabama lawmaker will visit Syria as part of a Republican delegation led by Representative Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican. Wolf is the top Republican on the House appropriations subcommittee that funds the State Department.
Perino wasn’t available to comment about that trip.”
Is Bush afraid Pelosi will learn more about his secret CIA torture prison in Syria that tortures renditioned suspects?
Good point Donald. The Republicans accusing Pelosi of “reaching out to a terrorist state� is typical. Republicans like to reach out and negotiate after they have already failed and it is too late. Lot of that lately.
Anything that the Speaker of the House can do to keep the line open between the US and any Middle Eastern country is worth the effort At present, we have no foreign policy besides aggression, threats, giveaways (jobs and money), and endorsing any who will threaten and aggress with us. Pelosi has the novel idea to talk, but then she speaks and thinks well. Perhaps the President feels threatened by that. Nice touch to have a White House spokeswoman denounce Pelosi’s trip. Equality abounds.
who cares what a nutcase like pelosi does. her and her husband follow thier own laws. they own a few companies and won’t allow union workers to work for them