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Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 07/10/2007 Pelosi: Six Months After Iraq Escalation, Still No End in Sight or a Clear Exit Strategy Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the lack of progress in Iraq six months after President Bush announced that he would escalate the war by sending in thousands of additional troops. Below her statement is a fact sheet on the surge: “Six months after the President escalated the war in Iraq, American troops have plunged even deeper into that country’s civil war, with no end in sight...

US House Speaker Pelosi says she hopes to revive US ties with Syria and change its behavior Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday shrugged off White House criticism of her coming trip to Damascus, saying she had "great hope" for reviving relations with Syria and changing its behavior. Speaking hours after arriving in Lebanon, Pelosi indicated President George W. Bush's administration was singling out her trip to Syria, but ignoring that of other members of Congress. "It's interesting because three of our colleagues, who are all Republicans, were in Syria yesterday and I didn't hear the White House speaking out about...

Michael Scheuer, former head of the "bin Laden desk" at the CIA, was interviewed on the John Gambling radio show on WABC radio (NYC) this morning.Here are a few points Scheuer made, as well I can remember (there is no transcript of the interview yet as far afaik): 1. Clinton was presented with a near perfect opportunity to kill bin Laden around December 23 or 24, 1999. (IIRC on the dates.) Clinton refused to pull the trigger in that instance NOT because he was afraid of human collateral damage, Scheuer says, but because Clinton was afraid shrapnel would hit a...