No, this isn’t an April Fools joke. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, 2nd in line to the presidency, is actually going to Syria after a brief stop in Israel. Meanwhile, the United Nations said today that arms are still being smuggled across the Syrian border to support Hezbollah in Lebanon, in violation of UN resolutions.
Read Nancy Pelosi in Syria and shudder.
Read Syria supporting Hezbollah and think about Nancy Pelosi.
You can connect the dots …
Syria, Hezbollah, and Nancy Pelosi
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the speaker “should take a step back and think about the message that it sends.”
“This is a county that is a state sponsor of terror, one that is trying to disrupt the Senora government in Lebanon and one that is allowing foreign fighters to flow into Iraq from its borders,” Perino said.
Liberals apparently haven’t met a communist, dictator, tyrant, terorist, Islamo-fascist, or anti-American zealot anywhere in the world that they dislike. And that’s because liberals like Nancy Pelosi have been on the inhumane side of every foreign policy issue during the last 50 years. They consciously and actively court the enemies of freedom in a strange dance of self-hatred projected beyond themselves to undermine their own form of democratic government.
New England Republican and SocalPundit have the irony of Pelosi visiting Syria while remaining silent on the abduction of British sailors by Iran. So does Joust the Facts.
Read the top ten reasons that Pelosi is going to Syria at Teri O’Briens blog.
See also Blue Crab Boulevard, The Black Kettle, and Radio Patriot.
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April 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 am
My my, things do change quickly, don’t they? I guess Syrian Fuhrer Bashar Assad isn’t as distasteful to speaker Pelosi as…as…that horrible Bush fellow. Perhaps she could nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize for transforming Syria into such a swell place in just a few years. Of course, there is that pesky detail of Bashar Assad having been in control of Syria when Pelosi was making statements about them supporting terrorism and such. Oh well. Could be worse, I suppose. Bloodthirsty Dick Cheney could be leading poor misunderstood Syria. At least they have a peace-lovin’ guy in charge and not some neocon nut who just wants to kill, kill, kill. So what if the Baath party runs Syria? At least it’s not really bad like the GOP.
Pelosi Statement in Support of Syria Accountability Act
October 15, 2003
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/Oct03/SyriaAccountabilityAct101503.html
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
–Abraham Lincoln
April 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
“The father of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the late Hafez Assad, led a regime dominated by the belief that women do not have souls.”
Hmm. How ’bout that? I had no idea that women don’t have souls. Guess ya learn sumthin’ everyday.
A piece out of Canada Free Press:
Pelosi sports Maple Leaf-studded head scarf in Syria
By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Given the maple leaf-studded headscarf she donned before entering a Syrian mosque yesterday, American House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could have been an ambassador for Canada.
The Maple Leaf, of course, is the chief symbol of Canada’s flag.
Although the good-sized picture of Pelosi on Tuesday’s Drudge Report shows Pelosi wearing the Maple Leaf-studded scarf, some media outlets took the maple leaves as flowers: “Wearing a flowered head scarf and a black abaya robe, Pelosi visited the 8th-century Omayyad Mosque. She made the sign of the cross in front of an elaborate tomb which is said to contain the head of John the Baptist. About 10 percent of Syria’s 18 million people are Christian.� (www.myway, 4/4/07).
The father of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the late Hafez Assad, led a regime dominated by the belief that women do not have souls.
Assad originated from the Alawite religious minority, though in essence a sect of Shiite Islam is a world apart from Islam in doctrine and practice.
“The secretive faith—in name indicating followers of Ali, son-in-law of Islam’s founding Prophet Mohammed—also combines elements of Christianity and astrology.� (Apologetics Index).
Peculiar to the Alawites is the belief that women do not have souls.
Politically Bashar Assad is a chip off the proverbial old block. Shaped by his father’s lifetime crusade against Israel, he has steadfastly resisted Israeli and American pressure to abandon support for Hezbollah.
Gary C. Gambill and Ziad K. Abdelnour, who wrote: Hezbollah: Between Tehran and Damascus for the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin got it right back in 2002:
“Bashar’s love affair with Hezbollah is attributed by some observers to naiveté. A Syria that can be manipulated by Hezbollah, which in turn, under Iranian guidance, could well miss the crucial moment when Iran and Hezbollah attempt to spark a huge conflagration.on Israel’s northern border,� says Israeli commentator Ehud Ya’ari, “A weak and naïve Syria acts as an accelerator for Hezbollah, not a brake.�
Pelosi would be more familiar than most with symbolism in dress. The activists in Code Pink, who have been waiting for her return from abroad by surrounding her Pacific Heights San Francisco mansion, always turn up decked out in pink scarves.
When it comes to her own country, Pelosi has been criticized for having divided loyalties since her arrival as House Speaker in early January.
Political hype notwithstanding, donning a head scarf and making nice would never get Syrian President Assad to stop allowing terrorists from crossing his border into Iraq.
With American troops in harm’s way, some fear Pelosi’s visit will add legitimization to the terrorist government of Syria. As sure as Pelosi wants to cut funds for the troops, the White House doesn’t support her visit to Syria.
Said State Department Sean McCormack last Friday: “In our view, it is not the right time to have these sorts of high-profile visitors to Syria.�
President George W. Bush has said Pelosi’s trip signals that the Assad government is part of the international mainstream when it is not. The United States says Syria allows Iraqi Sunni insurgents to operate from its territory, backs the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups and is trying to destabilize the Lebanese government. Syria denies the allegations.
“A lot of people have gone to see President Assad…and yet we haven’t seen action. He hasn’t responded,� he told reporters soon after she arrived in Damascus Tuesday. “Sending delegations doesn’t work. It’s simply been counterproductive.�
Meanwhile, as Michael John McCrae wrote in “Nancy Pelosi-Sleeping With The Enemy� for Conservative Voice, “When Islam declares victory over America I fully expect to see Nancy Pelosi wearing a head scarf in the halls of congress.�
April 6th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Can ya kinda tell that the whole Pelosi-Syria thing puts a burr under my saddle?
Pelosi Is Our Neville Chamberlain
By Ronald Kessler
With her trip to Syria, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi achieved two things: She undercut her own credibility in Washington, and she spotlighted what is wrong with the Democrats’ approach to national security.
The spectacle of Pelosi making nice with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and accepting at face value his claim that he is ready to “resume the peace process” with Israel had a large portion of official Washington tittering.
At the same time, Syrian authorities were telling the local press that there had been no change in its position. And Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Pelosi that “a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar al-Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel.”
Pelosi’s Charade
Moreover, Pelosi misrepresented Israel’s position to Assad, announcing that she had delivered a message from Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria. Olmert quickly issued a statement denying that.
Even the Washington Post saw through the charade.
“Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel’s position, but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad’s words were mere propaganda,” an editorial in the paper said. The editorial added that “Ms. Pelosi’s attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.”
While that is certainly true, the specter of Pelosi naively chatting with Assad and announcing that she had helped achieve a diplomatic breakthrough also highlights all that is wrong with the Democrats’ approach to foreign police today.
Syria hosts the exiled leadership of Hamas, as well as other Palestinian radical groups, and is a major supplier of funds to Hezbollah. Syria is also believed to be involved in the assassination of Lebanese political figures and allowing its territory to be used by jihadists fighting against the United States-led coalition and the coalition-backed government in Iraq.
History Repeats
Pelosi’s willingness to undercut the president and accept the word of the chief of state of a sponsor of terrorism is on a par with the Democrats’ effort to set a timetable for fighting the war in Iraq. It brings to mind the efforts of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the Kennedy dynasty, to appease Adolf Hitler.
As ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joe Kennedy met on June 13, 1938 with Herbert von Dirksen, the German ambassador. The two got along famously, and Dirksen later reported on the conversation in great detail to Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the German state secretary.
According to that report, Kennedy confided to the German ambassador that Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, was anxious to have some sort of settlement with Germany. By saying this, he undercut Great Britain’s negotiating position with Hitler. Moreover, Kennedy said President Roosevelt was not anti-German and wanted friendly relations with Hitler. However, no European leader spoke well of the Germans because most of them were “afraid of the Jews” and did not “dare to say anything good about Germany . . .” Kennedy stated.
Even as the two met at the German embassy in London, Hitler was planning to gobble up most of Europe and exterminate the Jews. The following year, World War II began after Hitler invaded Poland.
“Speaker Pelosi is the Neville Chamberlain of our time,” said Brad Blakeman, a Republican strategist who was an aide in the Bush White House. “Cowering to and appeasing the dictator of a terrorist state was a disgrace to the high office she holds. The Sryians used this visit to validate their bad behavior by propagandizing the whole visit and her anti-war stance.”
The Pelosi visit underscores that, when it comes to dealing with our enemies, the Democrats live in a dream world. Yet when another terrorist attack occurs in the U.S., they will be the first to say President Bush did not do enough to protect the country.
June 24th, 2007 at 8:08 am
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