Pelosi's Politics-Driven Diplomacy

IBD ^ | May 19, 2008

[Kaslin]

Congress: What, exactly, does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's latest junket to Iraq have to do with her official duties? Her inability to keep her amateur fingers out of the foreign policy pie suggests a political power grab.

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Pelosi went to Iraq uninvited Saturday, and her reception was less than warm. Iraq's democratically elected Nouri al-Maliki government wanted nothing to do with her until she admitted the truth about Iraq's progress as a nation and quit braying that U.S. troops must be immediately pulled out, a proposal so naive that even radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opposes it.

Message through, Pelosi admitted that Iraq had made progress and then got her face time with the prime minister in Baghdad.

She wasn't any more welcome when she presented herself to U.S. military leaders in Baghdad. Quietly, Pelosi also admitted that the U.S. troop surge was working, speaking out of character for a few minutes, until she got back to the states.

Pelosi also visited Israel, declaring that Democrats and Republicans alike agreed with the need to keep Israel secure, "security." Still, she sounded tough, which was the point.

[xcamel]

The only time I would agree with shiria stoning.....

[kingattax]

let’s pray for the day when we won’t have to see pelosi or her name in print anywhere.

[aviator]

Maybe she is pushing for Obama’s VP spot!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I can't stand that two faced biach.

She's chomping at the bit just waiting for Obama to take over so the "dim cabal of communists", can run this country into the ground.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This beotch is TWO heartbeats away from the Presidency! And it’s our own fault. We put her there by having no crystal-clear agenda, no freakin’ LEADERSHIP and no coherent policies of our own.

[woodbutcher]

AS I read the story, I had the same feeling.

Scary, isn’t it?

And not at all far fetched.

[adorno]

Pelosi went to Iraq uninvited Saturday

She was uninvited. And, isn't her presence in Iraq as unwelcome as that of Bin Laden? And, doesn't she represent the same thing that Iraq's enemies do? Doesn't her party want the U.S. out of Iraq and left to its own resources in defending itself against Iran and Al-Qaeda and the insurgents? Seeing as how she represents an outcome for Iraq which would be catastrophic for Iraq, shouldn't she be considered the enemy by the Iraqis? Shouldn't she have been arrested and put on trial for being an enemy of the state of Iraq?

[BARLF]

Iraq's democratically elected Nouri al-Maliki government wanted nothing to do with her until she admitted the truth about Iraq's progress as a nation and quit braying that U.S. troops must be immediately pulled out, a proposal so naive that even radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opposes it.

What? Pelosi think al-Maliki doesn't know what she is doing and has done to lose this war? She will never be welcome in Iraq.

Yes, she is as bad as Bin Laden, both in Iraq and the USA as well.

[bill1952]

>Shouldn’t she have been arrested and put on trial for being an enemy of the state of Iraq?

Ah, no. - she should be arrested and put on trial for being an enemy of the United States of America.