Where Do Nancy Pelosi's Loyalties Lie?
By Kim Priestap on Nancy Pelosi
Wizbang
She just returned from a trip during which she took time to sit down and talk with Bashar Al-Assad, one of the biggest sponsors of terrorism world wide. Now she says she's open to talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian megalomaniac leader who just announced that he's now enriching uranium at an industrial level and wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map:
<<< The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a news conference in San Francisco on Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran.
"Speaking just for myself, I would be ready to get on a plane tomorrow morning, because however objectionable, unfair and inaccurate many of (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's) statements are, it is important that we have a dialogue with him,'' Lantos said. "Speaking for myself, I'm ready to go -- and knowing the speaker, I think that she might be.''
Pelosi did not dispute that statement, and noted that Lantos -- a Hungarian-born survivor of the Holocaust -- brought "great experience, knowledge and judgment" to the recent bipartisan congressional delegation trip to Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia in addition to Syria. >>>
After insisting that she needs to keep an open dialog with leaders of rogue terrorist nations, she refuses to sit down and talk to President Bush about funding for the Global War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan:
<<< Just in case their previous statement was too ambiguous, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to reject a meeting with President Bush next week if he insists on preconditions in their negotiations over a spending bill to fund the war in Iraq.
"What the president invited us to do was come to his office so that we could accept, without any discussion, the bill that he wants," Pelosi said at an afternoon news conference in San Francisco to discuss her trip to the Middle East last week. "That's not worthy of the concerns of the American people. And I join with Senator Reid in rejecting an invitation of that kind." >>>
So to which country is she loyal? She won't talk with President Bush about funding our troops, but she's set and ready to talk to a despot leader who pushes "Death to America."
Update: Jon Roth at GOP Bloggers writes of the bigger picture, and he's spot on:
[Pelosi's] behavior actually weakens America by
advertising to our enemies that we can be divided and
conquered and that if Bush won't appease them then the
Democrats will. Thugs do not change their ways just
because you talked to them; they only change course when
presented with a credible threat. Pelosi's antics nearly
ensure that any threats we might make will not be seen as
credible and that only following through on those threats
can restore our credibility. In that sense, the Democratic
sycophantic tour of mideast dictators will lead to exactly
the opposite of what they hope to achieve.
Update II: Rob at Say Anything comments on the liberals' victim mentality:
I love how the liberals never fail to use the language of
victimhood in everything they do. Lantos is a victim,
therefore he is an absolute moral authority on the wisdom
of engaging Iran in unilateral diplomacy. Just like like
only Jesse "Hymie Town" Jackson has the moral authority to
forgive Imus for his offensive comments.
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