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Keyser Söze

On 3/13/15 3:10 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:31:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

John Stewart pointed out that Nancy Pelosi did a similar thing under
Bush's watch.

Except, of course, Pelosi's visit was organized by the Bush State
Department, executed by the Bush Defense Department, and officials from
the Bush Administration's Embassy at the time in Damascus even sat in
the meeting with President Assad.

Pelosi went to Syria to urge Assad to negotiate with President Bush's
team, not to tell Assad that Congress disageed with Bush.

Except for this:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). In April 2007, as the Bush administration pursued pressure against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to visit him. There, according to The New York Times, the two "discussed a variety of Middle Eastern issues, including the situations in Iraq and Lebanon and the prospect of peace talks between Syria and Israel." Pelosi was accompanied by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Tom Lantos (D-CA), Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), Nick J. Rahall II (D-WV), and Keith Ellison (D-MN). Zaid Haider, Damascus bureau chief for Al Safir, reportedly said, 'There is a feeling now that change is going on in American policy - even if it's being led by the opposition."

Seems she told them that they were undercutting President Bush, eh? Not quite the "story" you tell.

Does Harry ever get it right? I trust Jon Stewart more than Harry

D'oh. You really need to find a way to get over your "everything is the
same" response to everything. Pelosi was trying to convince Assad to get
over his evil ways, come to the negotiations table, agree to what the
United States wanted, et cetera. That's not the same as telling Assad
that Bush would be out of office soon and that whatever he might have
been pushing for would be abrogated by Congress as soon as he left office.

There's no question you read a lot on the web; the question arises as to
whether you understand much of it.

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