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Politics : Pelosi and Reid - You're Now In Charge! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (493)	3/14/2007 12:21:18 PM
From: mph	Respond to of 601

sfgate.com Pelosi stand on the war in Iraq bothers Israel lobby But House speaker insists U.S. commitment to security of Jewish state is unshakable Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau Wednesday, March 14, 2007 (03-14) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi is widely recognized as a strong, second-generation supporter of Israel, but the scattered boos she heard during an appearance before the Israel lobby's most committed activists highlighted their conflicting emotions over the war in Iraq. The cool response from the nonpartisan American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which gathered nearly 6,000-strong Tuesday in Washington for its annual policy conference, came after she characterized as a failure a war many of them support. Just minutes before, the House Republican leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, had received a standing ovation from the same crowd when he defended the war as a key part of the global war on terrorism vital to the survival of the United States and Israel. American Jews traditionally vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers, but on Iraq, some think withdrawal, championed by the Democratic Congress, would spread chaos in the Middle East and empower Israel's mortal enemies. <snip! >