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Wash Post nails Pelosi: Pratfall in Damascus
The Washington Post ^ | April 5, 2007 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 04/05/2007 2:50:29 AM PDT by Puzzleman

HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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Wow! And this from The Washington Post!
1 posted on 04/05/2007 2:50:30 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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To: Puzzleman
A whole squadron of fly pigs just went by...
2 posted on 04/05/2007 2:53:28 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Puzzleman

I just checked the calender-it’s not April 1...


3 posted on 04/05/2007 2:54:06 AM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist!)
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To: Puzzleman
We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush's military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.

Killer!

4 posted on 04/05/2007 2:55:56 AM PDT by gotribe ( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
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To: AmericaUnited

WHAT was she thinking? You would have to assume that she knows nothing about these cultures to come up with this plan.


5 posted on 04/05/2007 2:59:26 AM PDT by DooDahhhh
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To: Puzzleman

Excerpts from the article:

“HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, 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.”


6 posted on 04/05/2007 3:00:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Puzzleman

The Post gets it right sometimes. You won’t be reading this in the NYTimes!


7 posted on 04/05/2007 3:01:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The Drive-By Media is attempting to Cronkite the Iraq war.)
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To: Puzzleman

It’s pretty simple.

She thinks she has a mandate and she thinks she’s smarter than everyone in the Bush administration.

In short, she’s a fool.


8 posted on 04/05/2007 3:07:01 AM PDT by DB
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To: Jim Robinson
Well Jim, just shows t' go ya' that the same, old tactics are being used by the same old adversary utilizing the same old pawn ...

In the Garden, God said to Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of a certain tree ... when questioned by the Serpent, ("Yea, hath God said?") , Eve added that God had said not to touch it.

God never said anything about touching, just don't eat the fruit.

9 posted on 04/05/2007 3:08:49 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Puzzleman
Wow! And this from The Washington Post!

I had the same response, I had to read it twice.

10 posted on 04/05/2007 3:08:57 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Jeff Chandler
The Post nails her!

"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.

Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off U.N. charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president. Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush's military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.

11 posted on 04/05/2007 3:09:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Puzzleman

You want to choke, read the comments at the WP after the editorial, although it looks like some FRish folks were there already.


12 posted on 04/05/2007 3:10:16 AM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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To: Puzzleman
"using our good offices in promoting peace"

Translation: "Ain't we got fun!? Ain't we got power?!

Although it won't be highlighted anywhere else, the stunning naivety of this girl and her entourage reflects very poorly on those who voted her into the offices of the Speaker of the House.

HF

13 posted on 04/05/2007 3:10:20 AM PDT by holden
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To: Puzzleman

Having a really bad day when the Wash. Post criticizes anything a dem does.
Pelousy must really have screwed the pooch.


14 posted on 04/05/2007 3:10:21 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Jim Robinson

Ha’aretz is a left wing rag, but it should shed some light on Pelosi’s and Olmert’s comments.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/813817.html

In a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, Syrians and Israelis formulated understandings for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria.

The main points of the understandings are as follows:

An agreement of principles will be signed between the two countries, and following the fulfillment of all commitments, a peace agreement will be signed.

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As part of the agreement on principles, Israel will withdraw from the Golan Heights to the lines of 4 June, 1967. The timetable for the withdrawal remained open: Syria demanded the pullout be carried out over a five-year period, while Israel asked for the withdrawal to be spread out over 15 years.


15 posted on 04/05/2007 3:14:21 AM PDT by ketsu
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To: this_ol_patriot

LOL. The Washington Post morphs into Free Republic. Can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2007040402306


16 posted on 04/05/2007 3:15:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Puzzleman

Reckon that will leave a mark? Or does it get ignored? You know how the MSM usually gloms on and piles on if it’s Bush being skewered.


18 posted on 04/05/2007 3:17:04 AM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
For all the warnings about Pelosi as speaker before the election it was a hard sell to the average voter. Let’s face it how many folks who pay scant attention to politics know much about the House minority leader? Now as speaker she’s now the face of the Democratic party and that’s a good thing for us.
19 posted on 04/05/2007 3:17:48 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Puzzleman

It’s the moonbats’ Nixon in China moment, but they don’t have a clue about the thugocracy they’re embracing.


20 posted on 04/05/2007 3:18:54 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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