Pelosi lies again. A couple points after I show you the excerpts.
Via Reuters:
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , on a visit to Syria opposed by the White House, said on Wednesday President Bashar al-Assad was ready to hold peace talks with Israel.
But her remark that Israel was prepared to negotiate with Damascus prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office to underline the Jewish state's preconditions for such talks.
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"We were very pleased with the reassurances we received from the president (Assad) that he was ready to resume the peace process. He was ready to engage in negotiations (for) peace with Israel," Pelosi said.
"(Our) 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," Pelosi, the third most senior official in Washington, told reporters after talks with Assad.
An Israeli government official said that was not the message Olmert had asked Pelosi earlier this week to convey to Assad, who seeks the return of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
"The prime minister said Israel is interested in peace with Syria, but Syria would first have to abandon the path of terror and providing support for terrorist groups," the official said, in reference to Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
"Comments (Olmert) made to the speaker of the House did not represent any change in a policy Israel has expressed to all international figures dealing with the (Syrian) issue," a statement from Olmert's office said.
Now let us take this from the beginning here..... Nancy Pelosi once again thinks she can simply say anything she wants and her hand will not get called on it.
Well Israel just called it. Just because she CHOSE not to deliver the full message, what on earth makes her think Israel would not publicly correct her lies?
Secondly, this line here:
"We were very pleased with the reassurances we received from the president (Assad) that he was ready to resume the peace process. He was ready to engage in negotiations (for) peace with Israel," Pelosi said.
Is Nancy simply senile? Early Dementia or has she simply CHOSEN to once again "forget" the broken promises from the past that Syria's President has made?
Syria has failed to fulfill key promises to cooperate on Iraq, particularly to close down the traffic of foreign fighters, smugglers and others across its border, which is triggering new congressional efforts to impose tougher U.S. restrictions on Damascus, according to U.S. and congressional officials.
President Bashar Assad has also not returned to Iraq $3 billion from Saddam Hussein's government held in Syrian banks, or closed offices of Islamic extremists and Palestinian radicals in the Syrian capital, as he promised Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in talks a year ago, U.S. officials said.
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But some House lawmakers said they were tired of waiting and intend to introduce a new Syria-Lebanon liberation act, modeled to some extent on the Iraq Liberation Act, that would mandate broader sanctions against Syria than are called for in the current law and, by implication, support government change.
"My patience has run out," said Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), one of the co-sponsors.
U.S. officials said the Bush administration is also frustrated, in part because the Syrian government has been either unable or unwilling to stop the traffic across the 400-mile border that it originally encouraged or facilitated, despite repeated pledges of action.
"It's a mixed bag at best. On occasion they are cooperative when they're motivated to do so. They could do a lot more on the borders of Iraq and hint that they will, but we'd like to see more evidence of it," said a U.S. official familiar with the discussions. "There's not a lot of progress on stopping people going through or the money. They're reluctant to be excessively helpful, and there's no good explanation why -- maybe solidarity with neighbors or not wanting to be seen to collaborate with the Americans."
Because Syria does not require visas for Arabs, the Syrian border has been the main route into Iraq for foreign fighters, many of whom are now fighting in Fallujah, officials say. In the early days of the U.S.-led intervention, the Syrians helped arrange logistics and transportation for anyone interested in crossing into Iraq, U.S. officials say.
Under pressure from the United States, Syria has repeatedly promised to end its direct help, but has been unable or unwilling to cut off the infrastructure it put in place, the officials say.
That was back in 2004 and Pelosi cannot remember that far???????
Has the stupid bitch also forgotten that Syria backs Hezbollah???? Or does she just not give a damn?
Hezbollah emerged in 1982 from the Shiite Muslim population of Southern Lebanon. Armed and trained by Iran and allowed to operate openly by Syria, Hezbollah fighters waged a guerilla war against Israeli forces in Southern Lebanon and carried out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians in northern Israel. The organization's goal is the establishment of an Islamic state encompassing Lebanon and Israel. It has been implicated in terrorist actions targeting Americans, Jews and Israelis around the world.
Hezbollah is a significant social force in Lebanon, where it operates schools, hospitals and other social services; additionally, several members of the group's political wing sit in the Lebanese parliament. The organization also runs Al Manar satellite television, disseminating anti-Semitic and anti-American programming worldwide and glorifying suicide bombers.
Since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah's attacks have been relatively limited in scope, but the organization has increased its presence in the West Bank and Gaza, providing weapons, training and funds to Palestinian terrorist groups.
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Ideology
Militant Islamic Fundamentalism
Goals
* Destruction of Israel
* Establishment of an Islamic state in Lebanon and over Jerusalem
Methods
Pioneered use of suicide bombings in Mideast. Also conducts paramilitary operations against civilian and military targets.
Sponsors
Iran, Syria and Lebanon
From another source:
Hezbollah was one of those cabals. Backed by Iran and Syria, Hezbollah's original goals were to end the Israeli occupation of Lebanon and to institute a Shi'ite Islamic theocracy. The group later expanded these goals to include liberating the Palestinian territories and dropped its theocratic aspirations in favor of participating in a parliamentary government.
Hezbollah used terrorist tactics to push its political agenda, which slowly but surely drove Israel out of Lebanon, inch by bloody inch. It became famous as an innovator in suicide bombing, as well as kidnapping Westerners, hijacking aircraft, and other terrorist activity.
More recently, Sept. 2006, Germany was going to try discussions with Syria but Syrian President al-assad screwed that up too.
The visit to Damascus, he said, was aimed at "supporting the strategy of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to draw Syria into the peace process.
Steinmeier abruptly cancelled a trip to the Syrian capital in mid- August, following a speech by President Bashar al-Assad in which the Syrian leader praised Lebanon's fundamentalist Hezbollah movement for standing up to Israel.
2003 article, By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times:
WASHINGTON -- Hezbollah, a militant Islamic organization backed by Iran and Syria, has issued a new call to arms against Americans in the Middle East, touching off fears of terrorist attacks and debate within the Bush administration over whether to move more aggressively against the group and its key sponsors.
The search engine is throwing results at me a mile a minute here between Syria's broken promises and multiple, in fact, dozens of different sources all stating that Syria backs Hezbollah and Hezbollah uses suicide bombers which IS TERRORISM.
That makes Syria a state that SPONSORS TERROR.
What the hell is so hard to understand about this for Idiot Pelosi??????
My lord a child could understand something so basic and yet Pelosi cannot?
If you find fault with my sources just do a couple searches yourself, keywords, Syria/Hezbollah--- Syria/Broken promises.
Hell just use Syria and watch the mess you get.
If a person could die of stupidity, Pelosi would be dead 100 times over. She is nothing more than a treasonous Bitch that lies and lies and distorts and ignores reality whenever it suits her and I am DAMN glad Israel came out with a public statement correcting her lying message to Syria, which I hope no one has any doubt she did deliberately, hoping her hand would not be called so she wouldn't look like the fool she is for going to Syria in the first place.
She bet wrong this time bacuse Israel did NOT allow her to get away with it.
Lay down with dogs and you get up with fleas...she must be itching like hell by now.
[Update] Israel's official statement "clarifying" what he actually said to Nancy Pelosi vs what SHE told Syria Israel said.
My god, she cannot even pass along a simple message correctly. [End Update]
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Pelosi makes two goofs, a lie and a scarf from Right Truth...
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