Posted on 04/03/2007 10:00:33 AM PDT by SmithL
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Damascus on Tuesday, the highest-ranking American politician to visit Syria since relations began to deteriorate four years ago. President Bush criticized the trip, saying it sends mixed signals to President Bashar Assad.
The United States accuses Syria of interfering in Iraq and Lebanon and sponsoring terrorists — charges Syria denies. The Bush administration has resisted calls to open direct talks with Damascus on resolving the countries' disputes.
Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to meet Assad and other Syrian officials on Wednesday. She made no comment on arrival and headed for the Old City of Damascus where she toured the 8th-century Omayyad Mosque.
Pelosi draped a scarf over her head as she entered the historic mosque and stopped at a tomb inside the mosque said to contain the head of St. John the Baptist. She made the sign of the cross in front of the tomb. About 10 percent of Syria's 18 million people are Christian.
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I am sure they wished she had worn a full burka so they didn’t have to see that plastic face!
As Frank Sinatra once said: “I can go anywhere I wanna go, and do anything I wanna do!”
Bela Pelosi, what a gal!
Wait til the next election Madame Nancy!!!!!
“Although Fonda’s actions in July 1972 did not receive widespread coverage at the time (The New York Times, for example, ran only a brief UPI story and no photograph), her trip was perceived by many as an unpatriotic display of aid and comfort to the enemy, with some characterizing it as treason; the Nixon Administration, however, dismissed calls for legal action against her. Years later, she was labeled as Hanoi Jane by her critics and compared to war propagandists Tokyo Rose and Hanoi Hannah.”
Damascus Nan, meet Hanoi Jane.
Irrelevant to her stated reasons for this trip. Coddling a nation that supports international terrorism is unwise.
If you are there to talk with officials, do that. No sightseeing of ancient history.
The left likes to cite Tokio Rose as a woman who was wrongly convicted of treason. Why don’t they ever compare Hanoi Jane to Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw?
No one tells a Mafia Princess what to do. She’ll have Daddy talk to Lucky Luciano.
Your post made me flash back to that retired FBI guy who went missing in Iran Mar 11 who specialized in mafia busts.
I would love to see one oped by some major paper, asking San Fran Nan why she broke the Logan Act and if treason is a motive for her in undermining the one Commander in Chief we have now. Of course, it won’t happen but when I hear she is going to question Assad on his actions, I do not believe her. Just like I distrust any quote from a Lefty Dem on national security.
The AP exists to elect Democrats.
Nancy's shopping spree...
Curious - would you “love” to see the same op-ed making the same points about the GOP congressmen who visited Syria?
She would just stare, unblinking, at the person who asked that question.
I gather she wasn't refused entrance to Syria because her passport had an Israeli stamp? Pity -- even I would have paid to see that!
One can only imagine the prayer in Nancy’s mind as she genuflected in front of the head of John the Baptist...
The enemy of her enemy.
All of a sudden I have an overweening interest in what that ex-FBIer was researching.
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