Pelosi meets Terrorist sponsored leader in Syria.

This will be the 4th time in 2 years that some US (Dems) delegation has gone to Damascus to talk, with no results. And the reason why can be found right here. ** -LNN
DAMASCUS, Syria - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syria’s leader Wednesday despite White House objections, saying she pressed President Bashar Assad over his country's support for militant groups and passed him a peace message from Israel.
Congressional Democrats insist the U.S. attempts to isolate Syria have failed to force the Assad government to change its policies
Washington says Syria is fueling Iraq’s violence by allowing Sunni insurgents to operate from its territory. It also accuses it of backing terrorism because of its support for the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups and of destabilizing the Lebanese government.
"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Pelosi told reporters after her talks with Assad. FAT CHANCE-LNN
Pelosi said she and her delegation "expressed our concern about Syria's connections to Hezbollah and Hamas" and discussed the issue of militant fighters slipping across the Syrian border into Iraq.
During a visit to Israel on Sunday, Olmert told Pelosi that Israel was seeking peace, "but that this would only be possible if Syria abandoned terror and stopped providing assistance to terror groups," an Israeli government official said.
So far, there has been no sign of change in Syria's approach toward a possible peace process with Israel.
Syria support the terrorist leadership of Hamas, as well as other Palestinian radical groups, and is a major supporter of Hezbollah. But while the world regards Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups,
**Syria insists that Hamas is a legitimate resistance movement working for Palestinian freedom and Hezbollah is a regular Lebanese political party.
Bush said Pelosi's trip signals that the Assad government is part of the international mainstream when it is not. "A lot of people have gone to see President Assad ... and yet we haven't seen action. He hasn't responded,"
Washington has since succeeded in largely isolating Damascus, with its European and Arab allies shunning Assad. The last high-ranking U.S. official to visit Syria was then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in January 2005.
And now for the drive-by interpretation of the above mentioned- LNN
‘The isolation, however, has begun to crumble in recent months, with visits by U.S. (Democrat) lawmakers and some, some European officials.’