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congress woman from California plays the fool

Red Robin

Well-known member
PMO denies peace message to Assad


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Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 5, 2007

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The Prime Minister's Office issued a rare "clarification" Wednesday that, in gentle diplomatic terms, contradicted US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's statement in Damascus that she had brought a message from Israel about a willingness to engage in peace talks.

According to the statement, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert emphasized in his meeting with Pelosi on Sunday that "although Israel is interested in peace with Syria, that country continues to be part of the Axis of Evil and a force that encourages terror in the entire Middle East."

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Olmert, the statement clarified, told Pelosi that Syria's sincerity about a genuine peace with Israel would be judged by its willingness to "cease its support of terror, cease its sponsoring of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, refrain from providing weapons to Hizbullah and bringing about the destabilizing of Lebanon, cease its support of terror in Iraq, and relinquish the strategic ties it is building with the extremist regime in Iran."

The statement said Olmert had not communicated to Pelosi any change in Israeli policy on Damascus.

Pelosi, who met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar Assad over the objections of US President George W. Bush, said she brought a message to Assad from Olmert saying that Israel was ready for peace talks.

"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 after meeting Assad.

She said the meeting with the Syrian leader "enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well."

According to officials in the Prime Minister's Office, however, this was not what transpired during her meeting with Olmert.

The officials said Olmert had told Pelosi that he thought her trip to Damascus was a mistake, and that when she asked - nevertheless - whether he had a message for Assad, Olmert said Syria should first stop supporting terrorism and "act like a normal country," and only then would Israel be willing to hold discussions.

The first part of that message, the officials said, was lost in what was reported from Damascus on Wednesday.

Pelosi said the congressional delegation she led raised the issue of kidnapped IDF soldiers Gilad Schalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and conveyed "the importance of Syria's role in promoting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis." She also said she had pressed Assad on Syrian support for Hamas and Hizbullah.

In a related development, Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed al-Khalifa told the Bahrain daily Al-Ayam on Tuesday that the Riyadh Arab League summit set up "panels to communicate with all influential parties, including Israel, to activate the Arab Peace Initiative."

According to the Bahrain News Agency, Khalifa said the Arab League has formed "working teams to communicate with all parties, including Israel, the United Nations, the US, China and the European Union."

He said the team would make contacts with Israel "within a month," and that contacts with Israel would be made by countries "that have ties" with it, while the other Arab nations would contact the US and the EU member states.

A source in the Prime Minister's Office denied knowledge of any working groups that would be calling Jerusalem.

"We still haven't accepted the full initiative," the source said, adding that there would be no formal reply until after the Prime Minister's Office returned from the weeklong Pessah holiday. "But we've never said no to contact."

The Pelosi-Assad meeting, meanwhile, was widely viewed as an attempt to push the Bush administration to open a direct dialogue with Syria, a step that the White House has rejected. Congressional Democrats insist the US attempts to isolate Syria have failed to force the Assad government to change its policies.

Rep. Tom Lantos, the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who was a member of Pelosi's delegation, said the meeting "reinforced very strongly" the potential benefits of talking to Syria.

"This is only the beginning of our constructive dialogue with Syria and we hope to build on this visit," he told reporters.

On Tuesday, Bush denounced Pelosi's visit to Syria, saying it sent mixed signals to Assad's government.

"Sending delegations doesn't work. It's simply been counterproductive," Bush said.

Last year, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group recommended Washington open talks with Iran and Syria to try to resolve the war in Iraq and other regional crises. Bush rejected the recommendations, insisting dialogue would not bring results. But in February, the US joined a gathering of regional diplomats in Baghdad that included Iran and Syria for talks on Iraq.

"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Pelosi said. She said she and her delegation "expressed [their] concern about Syria's connections to Hizbullah and Hamas," and discussed the issue of terrorists slipping across the Syrian border into Iraq.

"These are important issues not only in the fight against terrorism, but priorities for us for peace in the Middle East," she said.

"These people in the United States who are opposing dialogue, I tell them one thing: Dialogue is... the only method to close the gap existing between two countries," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told reporters after Wednesday's Assad-Pelosi meeting.

"Everyone knows there are different points of view between Syria and the United States," he said. "We are happy that Mrs. Pelosi and her delegation had the courage and determination to bridge these differences."
 

aplusmnt

Well-known member
Pelosi will do anything she can to divide America! We have one foreign policy and one leader to set the Agenda and that is Bush. You can not have the President operating within his elected given rights with Syria and then the Dem's deciding they have a different message and lone wolfing it.

I think Pelosi and the Dem's think they are now in charge of America since they gained a few seats in Congress. You would think she was elected as President they way she is strutting around. She needs put back into her place.
 

jodywy

Well-known member
There can be only one President or Sec. Of State. The Logan Act

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33265.pdf

Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress
CRS Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web Order Code RL33265
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority:
The Logan Act
February 1, 2006 Michael V. Seitzinger
Legislative Attorney
American Law Division
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act

Summary
The Logan Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953, states:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without
authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his
agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments.
There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its more than 200 year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a point of challenge concerning dealings with foreign officials. Although attempts have been made to repeal the Act, it remains law and at least a potential sanction to be used against anyone who without authority interferes in the foreign relations of the United States.

Pelosi is neither President nor Sec. of State with regards to her recent trip to the Middle East.
 

Steve

Well-known member
Do Liberals actually understand "peace"?

I don't really like one of my next door neighbors...and at times have to appease them...by not doing things to antagonize their enjoyment of their property...which sometimes means not getting things done when they are down for the weekend....but in all the years I have been their neighbor they have "never" once returned the courtesy..in fact they have used the laws and harassment to attack me and my use of my property...

So I have peace at a cost to me...but at no "real" cost to them.....

While they have never Killed anything of mine...(at least that I can prove)..they have cost me money,...time and alot of aggravation...and they have Peace because I don't want the aggravation...But then again I am dreading the next few weeks as they open up their home and "decide" what they don't like this year....as no matter how much I appease them they soon find another thing to complain about...

So is "world peace" really worth it if we bear the the full cost,...in lives,..time and money?
 

Tom Russell

Active member
Red Robin said:
That old wind bag hasn't had pms since speck was a pup.
But, but, but, she can dream about the good old days. And the more she dreams, the less trouble she can cause for the rest of us. Have a good one!
 

Hanta Yo

Well-known member
jodywy said:
There can be only one President or Sec. Of State. The Logan Act

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33265.pdf

Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress
CRS Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web Order Code RL33265
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority:
The Logan Act
February 1, 2006 Michael V. Seitzinger
Legislative Attorney
American Law Division
Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act

Summary
The Logan Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953, states:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without
authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his
agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments.
There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its more than 200 year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a point of challenge concerning dealings with foreign officials. Although attempts have been made to repeal the Act, it remains law and at least a potential sanction to be used against anyone who without authority interferes in the foreign relations of the United States.

Pelosi is neither President nor Sec. of State with regards to her recent trip to the Middle East.

Thanks for posting, jodywy. I just wish they would use this on Pelosi. Treasonous old bag :mad:
 
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