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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Pelosi Makes Clear Why Her Syria Trip in '07 Was Nothing Like GOP's Iran Letter
from The Hill:
____The office of the House minority leader issued a scathing statement Wednesday night saying her meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was part of a bipartisan effort conducted through the Bush administration to encourage peace in the region, and accusing Republicans of launching a "desperate" defense of their Iran letter to mask criticisms coming from both sides of the aisle.
"The desperate hyperventilation by Republicans and conservative talkers over the intense, national backlash to this letter has caused them to search for a Democratic equivalent to the dangerous precedent set by 47 Republican Senators," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill. "The fact is, there is simply not one."
...Hammill emphasized Wednesday that Pelosi's delegation included then-Rep. David Hobson (R-Ohio), a senior defense appropriator; it was preceded just days earlier by a similar visit to Damascus by GOP Reps. Joe Pitts (Pa.), Robert Aderholt (Ala.) and former GOP Rep. Frank Wolf (Va.). And Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.) met with Assad just a day after Pelosi did a meeting that led Johndroe to comment, "We just don't think this is helpful."
"This visit was organized by the Bush State Department, executed by the Bush Defense Department, and officials from the Bush Administration's Embassy at the time in Damascus even sat in the meeting with President Assad," Hammill said. "As Republican Congressman David Hobson said at the time about the delegation's visit to Syria, 'I think we actually helped the administration's position by showing there's not dissension.'
"The comparison between the Republican Senator letter to Iran and Leader's Pelosi bipartisan delegation to the Middle East in 2007 does not stand up to any level of scrutiny," he charged.
read: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/235455-pelosi-my-trip-to-syria-was-nothing-like-the-gops-iran-letter
blm
(113,122 posts)even repeated them here. As if some of us had never paid attention to the backstories of every DC story.
bigtree
(86,013 posts)...little historical knowledge or perspective; like a student writing a report off of crib notes found on the internet.
blm
(113,122 posts).
Cha
(297,888 posts)trying to excuse the #47 Traitortots?
mahalo bt
bigtree
(86,013 posts)...and equalizing like all of the big-time media honchos do.
Cha
(297,888 posts)OP! Done some actual research on it like he does so much of the time.
blm
(113,122 posts)and it was sickening how many DUers repeated it.
Cha
(297,888 posts)mean shite.. they just say them to cover their butts and they know US corpmedia won't call them on it.
Very bummed that Jon Stewart went rw on it.. it's too important an issue to screw it up like that.
So glad bigtree and One of the 99 are on this..
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and corporate media knows it.
kairos12
(12,891 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,167 posts)I guarantee that the bi-partisan trip by Pelosi et al will be unkown by about half the country.
bigtree
(86,013 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)kick!
Spazito
(50,549 posts)I was surprised and disappointed with Jon Stewart on this issue, usually he and his show's researchers check their facts more carefully, not this time unfortunately.
Thanks for posting this, bookmarking as I'm sure the false comparison will arise on DU again.