Posted on 03/04/2009 2:16:49 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday that Syrian President Basher Assad told him last month in Damascus that Syria is prepared to resume peace negotiations with Israel and embrace a 2000 Arab initiative offering peace in exchange for territory captured from the Arabs in the 1967 Mideast war. "Syria would like direct American participation in these peace talks," said Kerry, D-Mass., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Reversing the Bush administration's dismissive stance on Syria, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Tuesday during a visit to Israel she would send two senior officials to Damascus this week.
Endorsing President Barack Obama's decision to dispatch the U.S. envoys to Damascus, Kerry said Assad is looking past Iran to improved relations with Arab countries and with the West.
Kerry said that Assad "told me recently in Damascus he is prepared to resume peace negotiations with Israel and embrace the Arab Peace Initiative once again."
Kerry's February trip to Damascus appears to have been a precursor to Clinton's move, but Kerry had not previously revealed the details of his talks with Assad, saying only the Syrian leader offered prospects of "real cooperation."
Kerry warned that Syria will "still try to play both sides of the fence for as long as it can." But Kerry said he believes Assad understands its "long-term interests lie not with Iran but with its Sunni neighbors and the West."
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How easy it must be to dupe Jon Francois Fonda Heinz Keri. The muzzies must be laughing their collective rags off over this guy.
Still a useful idiot.
Of course. With one of his own kind in the Peoples Revolutionary White House what does any expect?
Is a US Senator supposed to be conducting foreign policy?
I want to know which way Kerry is leaning?
Kerry is a traitor!
Shouldn’t the talentless, Lurch the Traitor be looking after the White House rug cleaning contracts.
Correction: With the current administration, the West is leaing toward Syria and Hamas...
Golly! World peace is at hand thanks to Zero and his minions. Putin is going to talk to the Iranians for us and the French member of the senate has Syria in his pocket.
And they think it's voluntary...he just wants to get in line to be the newest "ally" bought by Washington's taxpayer money.
Obama has doubled "foreign aid" from 50 to 100 billion!! Another of his "fiscally responsible" agenda items!
In other words:
“Hand over the Golan Heights and maybe we’ll talk.”
I’ve heard this song before, nothing new here.
“Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday that Syrian President Basher Assad blah, blah, blah, Syria would like direct American participation...blah blah blah, said Kerry, D-Mass.,”
The most dreaded letters in the english language; D-MA.
Seriously, think about it.
John “Francois” Kerry, the poor guy sent into cambodia by Nixon BEFORE he was president, Big Head Ted Kennedy (aka “the Driver”) killer and molester of beautiful young ladies, Bawney Fwank, the Owner and Propritor of a Male Brothel, and the Little Boy Molester, The Honorable Gerry Studds (winner of the most ironic name award) all from the same state.
Unbelievable that a state full of people could be so twisted in their thinking to keep sending these asshat clowns back to DC. These degenerates have hurt us so deeply it boggles the mind, saddens the spirit and wrenches the gut...
Nailed it.
The Syrians must be marveling at how we can breed ‘em so stupid over here.
Not really. He’s a guy our biggest enemies will talk to. Been that way since, well since forever. From Vietnam he perfected the enemy suck up with Danny Ortega and now this. A useful idiot. He might even be a patriot and we just don’t know it. How would anyone we like ever gain entre to the palace of our enemy? The answer. They couldn’t.
Now I know this is a mad stretch after finding out about the hassles his old man took from McCarthy’s folks, but Sean Penn was another I wondered about.
The Frankenstein monster and the bride of Frankenstein are busy making promises and dishing out our tax dollars to terrorist regimes and enemies of America to by thier behavior so Obama here at home can quickly bring the middleclass and America to it’s knees creating an American socialist republic without having to worry about an international crisis that would jeopardize his deceitful, despicable dastardly scheme>
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