Spinning Syria
It’s obvious that Nancy Pelosi understands that her Syrian trip is a big disaster. The telltale sign is that she’s spinning the trip, something she wouldn’t be doing if she thought it wasn’t a failure.
“Our message was President Bush’s message,” Pelosi said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Portugal, where she stopped briefly en route back to the United States.
That’s a pile of Barbra Streisand and Ms. Pelosi knows it. President Bush’s message is a hardline message. Ms. Pelosi’s message was a dovish message, which is more prevalent of far left Democrats.
“The funny thing is, I think we may have even had a more powerful impact with our message because of the attention that was called to our trip,” the California Democrat said. “It became clear to President Assad that even though we have our differences in the United States, there is no division between the president and the Congress and the Democrats on the message we wanted him to receive.”
If there isn’t a difference between Ms. Pelosi and President Bush, then why did she insist on going after President Bush urged her not to? Frankly, I believe that her statement that President Assad knew that there “is no division between the president and the Congress” in terms of Syria policy is meant purely for American consumption. It also shows a lack of intelligence on her part in the sense that terrorists view significant divisions between politicians as a sign of weakness.
Cheney, in an interview on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, said of Pelosi’s comment: “It was a non-statement, nonsensical statement and didn’t make any sense at all that she would suggest that those talks could go forward as long as the Syrians conducted themselves as a prime state sponsor of terror.”
Pelosi said Friday she had paid no attention to the dustup back in the United States.
She also said the delegation was not trying to cut deals between Syria and Israel but rather “assessing the ground truth” to inform spending decisions made by Congress.
That’s another healthy dose of spin from Ms. Pelosi. The only thing she said that I agree with is that her delegation wasn’t trying “to cut deals between Syria and Israel.” That’s only because I believe her delegation was trying to pave the way for a deal between a future Democrat president and Syria. Ms. Pelosi’s statement that her delegation was “assessing the ground truth” implies that they haven’t already made up their mind on this> That’s utter nonsense. She made up their minds long ago.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog