WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, deflecting White House criticism of her trip to Syria, said Friday she thinks the mission helped President Bush because it showed the U.S. is unified against terrorism despite being divided over Iraq.
Pelosi, D-Calif., met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus this week against Bush's wishes.
"Our message was President Bush's message," Pelosi said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from Portugal, where she stopped briefly en route back to the United States.
HOLY SH*T there she goes again trying to speak for someone else, does she NOT understand what it means to be the speaker of the HOUSE (not the speaker of others)-LNN
"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," she 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."
She thinks this is funny, HOLY CRAP NO DIVISION, WHAT COUNTRY SHE TALKING ABOUT-LNN
Bush this week assailed Pelosi for making the trip to Damascus, saying it sent mixed messages to the Syrian government, which his administration considers to be a state supporter of terrorism.
Lawmakers frequently travel to the Middle East, and several Republicans were in the region at the same time as Pelosi. But as House speaker, Pelosi received the most attention.
That’s because she is leading the Delectation and extended an olive branch to Syria from Israel, but Israel didn’t ask her too-LNN
She was most heavily criticized for her talks with Syria and Israel. Vice President Dick Cheney called it "bad behavior" on her part to try to broker a deal between the two — a sensitive matter that would be considered the sole province of the executive branch.
After meeting Wednesday with Syria's Assad, Pelosi said she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Israel was ready for peace talks. Pelosi told reporters in the region that Assad had replied that "he's ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel."
Olmert's office later issued a statement saying such talks could take place only if Syria stopped assisting terror groups.
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
That’s cause she doesn’t understand what she has done-LNN
Friday, April 6, 2007
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