Iran playing games

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Yep we got your back on this one...... Maybe..... or not

Sadly, that's not the worst thing Pelosi has planned...

ABC News has learned Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Syria next week to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The visit will make Pelosi the most senior U.S. official ever to meet with President Assad...

Pelosi's visit to Syria would come as the United States has severed high-level contacts with Assad's government.

The administration recalled the U.S. ambassador to Damascus after the February 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri in Lebanon. There has been very little high- or mid-level U.S. contact with Syria since then.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/03/pelosi_going_to.html

The Bush administration on Friday condemned plans by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Syria and possibly meet its president, who the United States has accused of helping destabilize the region.

"We don't think it's a good idea," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. "This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror, one that is trying to disrupt the Siniora government in Lebanon and one that is allowing foreign fighters to flow into Iraq from its borders..."

"I'm not sure what she's hoping to accomplish there, I know that Assad probably really loves people to come and have a photo opportunity and have tea with him and have discussions about where they're coming from," Perino said, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"But we do think it's a really bad idea," she said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN3032184620070330?feedType=RSS

[Ramo]

Yeah, diplomacy is terrible and would totally **** up the utopia that is Iraq. Dubya has rejected that kind of ridiculous policy, and everything's peachy. What's Nancy thinking?

Is there any enemy of America that Ramo won't side with?

I only side with them cuz they're commies and/or terrorists...

[Drake Tungsten]

Yeah, diplomacy is terrible and would totally **** up the utopia that is Iraq.

Pelosi has no right to perform an end around on the White House and the State Department by engaging in diplomacy on her own. I knew you would support her, though.

[Ramo]

Duh. Pelosi's trying to engineer congressional pressure on the WH to engage in diplomacy with Syria and Iran.

[Drake Tungsten]

She can do that in Washington. No need to go to Syria and legitimize Assad.

[Ramo]

I know it's a crazy idea, speaking with a head of state gives you some idea of what diplomatic negotiations might look like. It's an extremely sensible thing for Pelosi to do.

And legitimize Assad? What the hell does that actually mean? Pelosi is supposed to be a pillar of the Syrian Ba'ath's rule? The idea that the mere act of talking with them legitimizes the regime is the basic absurdity of the Bush foreign policy and in large part why we're in the mess we're in.

[Kuciwalker]

I know it's a crazy idea, speaking with a head of state gives you some idea of what diplomatic negotiations might look like. It's an extremely sensible thing for Pelosi to do.

She's Speaker of the House. Foreign policy isn't her job, unless we're going to declare war on Syria.

[Ramo]

Duh. Pelosi's trying to engineer congressional pressure on the WH to engage in diplomacy with Syria and Iran.

[Drake Tungsten]

That doesn't make any more sense than it did the first time you posted it...

[Ramo]

Members of Congress meet members of other gov't's all the time. It's not some unconstitutional usurpation of executive power, but a fact-finding trip.

[Ramo]

That doesn't make any more sense than it did the first time you posted it...

I know I had to use a four-syllable word. Sorry.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Ramo
Members of Congress meet members of other gov't's all the time. It's not some unconstitutional usurpation of executive power, but a fact-finding trip.

I thought it was called a vacation.

[Drake Tungsten]

I know I had to use a four-syllable word. Sorry.

That's the best you can do?

[Ramo]

Since you've been pwned so thoroughly on the merits of the question, I saw no need to push it....

[Drake Tungsten]