WOW!! ----> "Speaker Pelosi Is 100% Right About Syria" (Brent Budowsky)

[StefanX]

Speaker Pelosi Is 100% Right About Syria
by Brent Budowsky | Apr 6 2007 - 3:29pm

With the administration of the most failed and catastrophic national-security policy in history in full-throated attack demeaning the Speaker, and mainstream media as usual parroting the attack with minimal response for the first 24 hours, it is time to make this case: The Speaker is absolutely right and it is important to consider exactly why.

... She put pressure on Syria to do exactly what the president claims he wants Syria to do. She put pressure on Syria to do exactly what Israel wants Syria to do.

If there is any message received by Syria from this trip, it is that the Speaker and Democrats join the president in demanding Syria provide security guarantees to Israel, stop any support for terrorist groups, and stop any action that helps those in Iraq killing Americans.

What the Speaker did was advance the goals the president publicly says he favors, unless in truth the president prefers yet another unwise war to what he claims he wants diplomatically.
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There is one common denominator to every American president from Eisenhower through Clinton, and it is this: America negotiates with enemies and adversaries, as well as with friends and allies, to achieve our goals.

Kennedy said we should never negotiate out of fear, but never fear to negotiate. This was followed by the most conservative and the most Republican presidents. ...

The policy of George W. Bush is deviant, extreme, radical and unprecedented in the history of Republican and conservative U.S. presidents, indeed of all previous U.S. presidents.

WOW! READ THE WHOLE THING!
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6607
This is the kind of editorial that should be in everyone's Sunday paper!

[StefanX]

1. Other choice quotes from the same article

Eisenhower talked to the Soviets when the Soviets were at their worst. Nixon talked to the Soviets and to the Chinese communist leaders. Reagan talked to the Soviets, and not only Gorbachev — he also wrote a personal plea to Brezhnev.
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The president cannot protect our wounded troops from rats, mice, lice, urine, and feces while he escalates the surge. He escalates the call-ups of National Guardsmen, without any rational military understanding of force structures and unmet military equipment and personnel needs, which escalate by the hour, under his policies.
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Of course the Syrians are not nice leaders, no more than Krushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov, Mao and Chou En Lai were when Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush all supported negotiations with them.
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Everything the Speaker said, everything the Speaker did, added pressure IN SUPPORT of the president’s stated goals.

The president prefers an American government with only one branch and one political party, and the American people have now seen and rejected the bloody and failed result of that.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6607

THIS GUY IS RUBBING BUSH'S NOSE IN IT!!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. k & r

I love the language used in this article. It's a great FU to BushCo.

[Forkboy]

2. Heh

[FogerRox]

3. Iraq Study Group

1. Baker advocates engaging Syria

2. Bush told them to eff off

3. Pelosi goes to Syria

4. Baker thinks ~ finally~

5. KSA cancelles GWB dinner

6. KSA invites Pelosi to dinner

KSA has stepped out from the background of geopolitical affairs after 60 yrs, stepped onto center stage.

With 3 US carrier groups in the region, we (KSA) cannot afford to have Bush and Cheney's presence in the region allow them to take advantage of an "accident". This requires KSA to be proactive in countering the Bush Cheney cabal.

No one wants another war in the mid east (Iran/US), except Bush & Cheney & Olmert ?.

If Pelosi is being groomed by the international community as the #3 in the US, dont forget inpeachment & removal.

[cascagraphic]

4. bttt

[Nikki Stone1]

5. kick

:kick:

[Hamlette]

6. kick

[StefanX]

7. shameless self-kick!

because that article really kicked *'s butt!

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Bush to Pelosi:

Quit fucking up my new war.

[donheld]

10. I'll K & R this should be front and center of every newspaper.

[kdpeters]

11. Thank you so very, very much, Madame Pelosi--- And know what?

I am so proud to be American but L've always knew that George W. Bush is not our President of the United States of America----

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. Straight to the heart of the matter.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. I think it was CNN or maybe MSRNC, same too me, that was asking the question yesterday,

Did House Speaker Pelosi break the law...did she commit a felony? regarding to her trip to Syria. :wow:


I'd like too say I was shocked, but I would be lying. :evilgrin:

[bluerum]

14. The pResident wants to appear as a tough guy who can bully others

into doing what he wants. Diplomacy, peace and terrorism have nothing to do with his goals.