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Remembering Nancy Pelosi’s Syria Junket

Five years ago this coming Wednesday, House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi defied President Bush’s request and his strategy isolating Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by going to Damascus. “We do not encourage and, in fact, we discourage members of Congress to make such visits to Syria,” the White House spokesman said. “This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror.”

Pelosi would have none of that. She had known evil and to her, he resided in the White House. The Syrian dictator, however, was a reforming, Western educated eye doctor. Bilateral problems might be real, but they might be resolved through dialogue. “We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace,” she told reporters.

The Syrian regime used her meeting to its full propaganda advantage. After concluding his meeting with Pelosi, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, said, “These people in the United States who are opposing dialogue I tell them one thing: Dialogue is … the only method to close the gap existing between two countries.” Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Pelosi, Syrian officers and North Korean scientists scrambled to put the finishing touches on a covert nuclear facility, and Syrian dissidents dove for cover, interpreting correctly that Assad would interpret the end of America’s isolation of Assad as a green light for murder. Assad, in hindsight, welcomed Pelosi not as a politician with whom to have sincere dialogue, but rather as a useful idiot who might help relieve him of international pressure.

Five years later, Bashar al-Assad has not changed and, alas, neither has Nancy Pelosi.

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2 Responses to “Remembering Nancy Pelosi’s Syria Junket”

  1. g_jochnowitz says:

    Five years ago, Pelosi didn't know about North Korea's assistance to Syria in building a nuclear facilty, but she does now. For some mysterious reason, the world has forgotten about North Korea's help to both Syria and Iran. North Korea, like Venezuela, is Iran's best friend–the Marxist-Islamic Alliance at work. Everybody is aware of the cruelty of the Kim Dynasty, but somehow nobody remembers that North Korea is the most Marxist country on earth. Republicans and Democrats are equally ignorant about the Marxist element in North Korea's insanity.

  2. Sue01 says:

    Nancy Pelosi is bankrupt as a human being. She is truly the evil witch of the West. She is so blind, deaf and dumb to the reality of insanity that permeates her consciousness that it is beyond the point of even the Progressive ideology. She is truly "off her rocker" in the truest sense of the words. She is so committed to the destruction of this country that she can and will do anything in her sphere to accomplish that. She lacks a true grip on what is real. She is a dangerous menace but her constituents don't care, she has allowed a city once great to deteriorate into a slum of intellectual dishonesty and lack of all morals.

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