Olmert disowns Pelosi - Now up for Adoption
'House' broken and does tricks. Any takers?
Pelosi did her darnedest to curry favor with the Madman of Tel Aviv, but he promptly threw her worn out carcass to his right wing dogs:
Not content with coddling Syria's terrorist regime, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a fool of herself pretending to be a messenger for Israel's prime minister. But the Israelis were quick to expose the charade.It seems that trying to take down
President Bush isn't enough for the Speaker of the House. On Wednesday, she tried to make Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert look so weak that he needed a U.S. congresswoman to carry messages to Israel's sworn enemies for him.
After President Bashar al-Assad told her that Syria wants negotiations with Israel on the Golan Heights, Pelosi informed reporters in Damascus that the "meeting with the president enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well."
Before you could say "Hezbollah," Olmert took issue with the speaker's feeble attempt to mislead Americans into thinking she had Israel's interests in mind in her visit.
A "clarification" issued by the prime minister's office emphasized that Syria "continues to be part of the axis of evil and a force that encourages terror in the entire Middle East." The use of President Bush's famous term for countries like Syria that sponsor terror underlined the strength of Olmert's rebuff to the senior Democrat.
Contrary to Pelosi's assertions, Olmert's statement made it clear that "what was communicated to the U.S. House speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel, as was communicated to other foreign leaders."
So Pelosi not only gave Assad a false image of U.S. foreign policy, but of Israeli foreign policy as well.
Olmert reaffirmed that Syria has a long, long way to go before it will be welcomed at the negotiating table. "In order to conduct serious and genuine peace negotiations," said the prime minister's statement, "Syria must cease its support of terror, cease its sponsoring of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, refrain from providing weapons to Hezbollah and bringing about the destabilizing of Lebanon, cease its support of terror in Iraq, and relinquish the strategic ties it is building with the extremist regime in Iran."
Anyone who thinks Nancy Pelosi showing up wearing a scarf around her head visiting a mosque will cause all that to happen won't even make janitor in the foreign service.
Speaking of that scarf, one waggish Canadian commentator remarked that "given the maple leaf-studded head scarf she donned before entering a Syrian mosque yesterday, American House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could have been an ambassador for Canada."
She certainly represented the dovish foreign policy of the land of the maple leaf a lot more than that of a post-9/11 America leading a global war on terror.
As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney remarked Wednesday at a campaign stop in Iowa, "Her going to a state which is without question a sponsor of terror, and having her picture taken with Assad and being seen in a head scarf and so forth is sending the wrong signal to the people of Syria and to the people of the Middle East."
The former Massachusetts governor called it "a very bad idea to be carrying out a separate and independent foreign policy from the president of the United States."
But the kind of Democrats now ruling the roost in Congress think nothing of placing politics above the national interest. The speaker went to Syria to show up President Bush by making it look like all he's had to do for years now is stop being a hardliner, arrange for some face time with hostile Islamic governments and -- voila! -- there will be progress in the Middle East peace process.
Meanwhile, Pelosi refused to support our steadfast ally Britain by allowing the House vote on a resolution condemning Iran for taking British sailors hostage. Instead, she goes halfway around the world to coddle our enemy.
Luckily for America Nancy Pelosi's incompetence means there's been only one casualty so far from her independent foreign policy: the speaker's ever-plummeting reputation.
Will Pelosi ever find another home?
Stay tuned for the next episode of As the Worm Turns.
Interesting article.
There are two ways of reading it and draw your conclusions:
1. Nobody can please Israel enough to gain that country's respect. Even Pelosi, who has gone out of her way to prove that Israel is her first priority.
Israel is in charge, and it does not owe anything to the useful idiots, who do its bidding.
2. The diplomatic rebuff which she has got from Olmert's office after her meetings in Damascus serves the purpose to show that she is really an independent, honest broker, not a messenger for Israel, even if the latter is the case. This signal might even serve to help her to survive politically in the US.
She just did her best, what more can you do?
Mata Hari Meets With
Syrian Leaders
I'm thrilled to see I'm hardly the only one who caught up
with this poodle show. My attitude has steadfastly been
that this woman was hired to take care of the business
of our Congress, not their "Traveling Knesset".
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/687
"Knesset-Congress-Senate" committee
Congratulations for your participation. You are now worthy
of an honorary invitation to qrswave's newly forming coalition against zionism in our government.
You ask me to draw my own conclusions. Thank you,
but I already have. See them at the bottom of this:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1079#comment-4904
Pelosi to address Knesset
( and don't miss remainder of extensive Pelosi thread )