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If You Won’t Listen to Me…

By Robbie Cooper ⋅ April 10, 2007 ⋅ Tweet This ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

With regards to Ms. Pelosi’s trip to Syria…

Then maybe you can listen to those who are a little more vested in regime change in Syria — from the Syria Reform Party:

The result of the Pelosi trip on Middle Eastern reformists is having quite a chilling effect. Five years of investment by the US State Department and the Bush administration in organizations and people who have committed their lives to helping their oppressed countries is being flushed away by the Democrats in Congress who, with the visit of Pelosi to Syria, have shown that they favor the stability of dictatorships to freedom even if they had a direct hand in killing American troops in Iraq.

For Nancy Pelosi to cajole with Assad who has facilitated the killing of American soldiers is a travesty. RPS wants to remind all the Democrats in Congress what Assad has been up to in building terrorist bases in Syria. Many of the Democrats already know it because they get the same good intelligence as the National Security Council or the DIA. The US public has not been informed of these training terrorist bases because the media is disinterested in highlighting any reason that would prompt Bush to take action. Without public support, the US can never achieve success in the hard and long struggle to subdue extremism and to spread freedom.

Emphasis theirs.

Get that? A group working for positive change in their country was hopeful that President Bush’s foreign policy is or was working in Syria — despite the belief from some of my commenters that President Bush’s policy has already failed in Syria.

Nancy Pelosi’s disingenuous attempt at extending a lifeline to the Assad regime by visiting him when the Bush administration is on the brink of successfully breaking him down through pressure and isolation demonstrates how much we can trust the Democrats to do the right thing when it comes to the security of the US.

The truth is that we can’t trust Democrats to do the right thing when it comes to our security. Submission and Dhimmitude are not security plans.

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6 comments for “If You Won’t Listen to Me…”

  1. Can you tell me what Nancy Pelosi said that contradicted the Bush Administration policy in Syria?

    Posted by Preston | April 10, 2007, 3:59 pm
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  2. “Can you tell me what Nancy Pelosi said that contradicted the Bush Administration policy in Syria?”

    Well, that white flag she kept waving was a little off message, even coming from a loyal supporter of the troops and the Commander-In-Chief like Nancy.

    Posted by Jim Howard | April 10, 2007, 5:14 pm
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  3. Jim, if you don’t know what she said in Syria, just say so.

    Posted by Preston | April 11, 2007, 6:17 am
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  4. Preston, to start with — Ms. Pelsoi started off by making up policy position for Israel (with the US playing go-between):

    Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria. What’s more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to “resume the peace process” as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. “We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria,” she said.

    Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. “What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel,” said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister’s office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that “a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel.” In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel’s position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad’s words were mere propaganda.

    Posted by Robbie | April 11, 2007, 8:54 am
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  5. That is an interpretation disputed by Rep. Tom Lantos- a staunch Israeli supporter:

    “It’s obvious the White House is desperate to find some phony criticism of the speaker’s trip, even though it was a bipartisan trip,” said Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who is considered the Democrat closest to the pro-Israel lobby. “I have nothing but contempt and disdain for the attempt to undermine this trip.”

    The White House had no comment on the allegations by Lantos that it pressured Olmert to offer a clarification.

    Such backdoor statecraft between the White House and Olmert would not be unprecedented.

    Last year, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked Olmert into a 48-hour cease-fire during the war with Hezbollah to allow humanitarian relief, but within hours Israeli planes were bombing again, to Rice’s surprise and anger. Olmert had received a call, apparently from Cheney’s office, telling him to ignore Rice.

    Olmert’s message seemed calibrated to cast Pelosi as a naive novice.

    Posted by Preston | April 11, 2007, 9:58 am
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  6. I didn’t realize that the (D) after their names stood for dhimmi

    Posted by whitestone | April 12, 2007, 9:08 am
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