Posted on 02/21/2009 10:50:02 AM PST by knighthawk
US Senator John Kerry on Saturday met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syria's SANA news agency reported. Kerry, a former presidential candidate who now chairs the Senate foreign relations committee, is the latest US legislator to visit Damascus this week.
His talks with Assad were set to focus on Syria's support for Iran and regional groups, including the Shiite Hizbullah movement in Lebanon. "We want Syria to respect the political independence of Lebanon, we want Syria to help in the process of resolving issues with Hezbollah and with the Palestinians," Kerry said on Wednesday in Lebanon.
"We want Syria to help... with the disarmament of Hezbollah," added Kerry, according to AFP.
Kerry said in Lebanon that US President Barack Obama's administration plans to adopt a fresh approach in the Middle East "but without any illusion." "Unlike the Bush administration that believed you could simply tell people what to do and walk away and wait for them to do it, we believe you have to engage in a discussion," he said.
"So we are going to renew diplomacy but without any illusion, without any naivety, without any misplaced belief that, just by talking, things will automatically happen."
Another US senator, Benjamin Cardin, visited Damascus this week, urging Syria to end its alliance with Iran and make "significant decisions" to smooth ties with Washington. "Syria has isolated itself by its partnership of terrorism, by providing safe haven to terrorist organisations, its relations with Hamas and (Islamic) Jihad, and a troubled relationship with Iran," Cardin said.
Tell us how you really feel.
Send a traitor to do a traitor's job.
So is Kerry our Secretary of State, or is Hillary Clinton our Secretary of State?
BTW Obama, Syria has said screw you to the rest of the world with regard to Lebanon for the last 50 years. Why should every new president ask Syria to play nice, when it has made it perfectly clear that it prefers arming terrorists and being a member of the axis of evil instead.
You’re acting like well meaning kid who is wet behind the ears. That’s why I continue to say you don’t evidence any more understanding than a ten year old. You stand there with your eyes wide open, a gleam beaming out, like... “I know more than the eight presidents before me. They didn’t care but I do.”
God what a full of himself child you have turned out to be.
You disbursed government funds through ACORN, and that made you an expert on global affairs.
Good grief, it would be hilarious if not so pathetic and extremely dangerous. Coupled with your other plans, you are one serious threat to our nation. I only hope you haven’t destroyed it by January 20th, 2013.
old habits die hard
I heard that Kerry was in Vietnam.... I wonder if al-Assad heard too?
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Posted on 02/21/2009 2:45:58 PM PST by kellynla
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190984/posts
...just another step in the betrayal and sell out of Israel.......
“Hi Asswad, I’m Asshat. Nice to meet you. Wanna talk toilet paper?”
Kerry to Assad:
my dear pal, look, I brought my personal set of “Monica kneepads” all the way from America.....
But he didn't earn them. Kerry is a bottom feeding traitor. And that is his best trait.
Yes, and Kerry released the documents for only 2 of his purple hearts and he then tried to obscure the 3rd by using justification for one of his other PHs as the 3rd. There's an old thread from 2004 that discusses it.
There has never beeen in the history of the US such a useless bastard as Kerry
the road to Damascus is a road to peace,” Pelosi
Sound like a new movie with her and Bob Hope.
There has never beeen in the history of the US such a useless bastard as Kerry
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And that’s an insult to useless bastards.
Jon Carry = @$$HOLE! God, how much I loathe him.
Hanoi Jon
That’s like asking the DNC to repudiate ACORN
well, they could have made him SecDef-—I just bet Gate’s eventual replacement will be a doozy.
As one Asshead to another.
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