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Daled Amos writes

Now Pelosi is back in the US and claiming what she did helped Bush.
Pelosi is too modest--her debacle may very well end up helping the entire Republican Party.

Gateway Pundit thinks that Pelosi violated the Logan Act. I don't doubt it, I doubt that any government would enforce that nowadays. (Remeber when Jesse Jackson interceded with Assad's father to release Lt. Robert Goodman? Jackson probably violated the Logan act then and made a dictator look good, but the Reagan administration didn't take any action.) I'd agree with Wizbang's Kim Priestap on this one.

Israel Matzav links to a hilarious Al-Hayat opinion piece blaming Pelosi's trip on - the Israel Lobby!

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to Damascus was motivated by a fraction of the Israeli lobby convinced that stimulating Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's interest in striking a deal with Israel would prompt him to break away from Iran and abandon Hezbollah in Lebanon. The visit came on behalf of the Israeli government and its affiliates, who view the Syrian regime as weak and incapable of inflicting harm, yet the best de facto partner of Israel, since it will never stir up the Syrian-Israeli front, or allow for the emergence of the 'Muslim Brotherhood'. Hence, it stands to represent the wished for separation fence, running along the Syrian-Israeli borders. The visit of the head of the top US legislative body came to the dismay of George W. Bush, the head of the executive body, who is tasked by the Constitution with foreign policy decision-making and entrusted with the prerogatives to outstrip jurisdictions.

But I thought that the Bush administration was in the pocket of the Israel Lobby!

Right Wing Nut House understands now why Pelosi was wearing an tinfoil hat headscarf:

Now we know why Pelosi was wearing that head scarf in Damascus yesterday. It wasn’t in deference to Muslim tradition. It was to keep her brains from dribbling out of her ears.

Not nice.

I love the title of Tiny's post.

Pelosi talks, middle east problem solved!

Austin Bay calls it Muddle Diplomacy - with good reason

The Assad regime is a vicious gang. A UN-sponsored prosecutor has assembled credible evidence of Syrian regime complicity in the murder of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

Speaker Pelosi is prancing and chatting up peace with the murderers.

Instapundit, who must have been reading Daled Amos :-) writes:

If Bush and Cheney were really evil, they'd both resign and stick the Democrats with a Pelosi Presidency for the next two years. The Democratic Party would never recover. Alas, neither would the country.

(the last two via transterrestial.)

Nancy Pelosi

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