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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a key Democrat critic of President George Bush’s war policy in Iraq, landed in Baghdad on Saturday for talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, the U.S. embassy said.

An embassy spokeswoman said Pelosi would meet U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker and the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus. The California Democrat would also hold talks with senior members of Iraq’s leadership, although the spokeswoman declined to give details.

Pelosi led Democratic opposition to Bush’s decision in early 2007 to send 30,000 additional American soldiers to Iraq in a bid to halt Iraq’s spiral into all-out civil war.

With violence down, the extra combat brigades are being withdrawn. But there will still be 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq when the last “surge” brigade leaves in July.

Now with her party sitting on and playing games with the funding bill for the troops on the ground I wonder just exactly why she is there.

She just got a briefing from them both in Congress not to long ago and nothing has really changed since then except the Basra showdown which Sadr got totally trashed on , Sadr City is being cleaned up and now Maliki is getting ready to do the same thing in Mosul he did in Basra.

Ms Clueless is just stringing out her gameplan here and I can’t wait to hear her spin on her visit.

Any truth to the rumor she got off the plane sporting her “General David Petraeus Betrayed Us” tee-shirt?

“The California Democrat (Nancy Pelosi) would also hold talks with senior members of Iraq’s leadership, although the spokeswoman declined to give details.”

Excuse Me?

Since when is American foreign policy any of HER damn business?

The old lipo-sucked, chest-stuffed, botoxed bítch from San Francisco thinks SHE is running the show?  Good luck with THAT, bagger.

Traitorous Bítch.

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Rocketman ~(Ä)~ - 17 May 2008 11:10 AM

Traitorous Bítch.

Exactly.

Maybe she is afraid that Cindy Sheeham is going to win her seat.

From an Iraqi blogger in exile I follow

http://iraqpundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-hard-out-here-for-terrorist.html

Poor Osama Bin Laden can’t seem to get respect these days. His followers in Iraq have all but been eliminated, Iran tries to steal his thunder, and he’s getting old for life on the run.

Not long ago, some opinion polls showed that al-Qaeda’s support among mainstream Muslims was plummeting. Bin Laden’s associate said “‘I call upon the Muslim nation to fear Allah’s question (at judgement day) about its failure to support its brothers of the Mujahedeen (holy Warriors), and (urge it) not to withhold men and money, which is the mainstay of a war’,”. Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has criticized Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted on the Internet.

What’s a terrorist leader to do? Well, often when Arab or Muslim leaders get desperate, they trot out the Palestinian cause. Bin Laden is no different, based on his most recent taped message.

The terrorist leader had originally called on “Muslims to stand with the Iraqi people against the United States.” Thanks to the unremitting slaughter of innocents, that didn’t seem to work, based on Zawahiri’s own words.

It appears his advisers have told Bin Laden about the mounting failures of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Most recently, “Around 1,100 people have been arrested during the first four days of a government crackdown on Al-Qaeda jihadists in Iraq’s main northern city of Mosul, the defence ministry said Saturday.”

So what can he do? Focus on Palestine, of course. “‘We will continue our struggle against the Israelis and their allies,’ Bin Laden said in the 10-minute audio posted on a website used frequently by Al Qaeda. ‘We are not going to give up an inch of the land of Palestine’.”

This story says, “the voice on the tape said the fight for the Palestinian cause was the most important factor driving al-Qaeda’s war with the West, and that it had fueled the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.”

Still, it might take a while for Bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri to convince many Arabs and Muslims that Israel was not behind the 9/11 attacks. Al-Qaeda likes to remind everyone that it was the gang responsible for the horrors.

With this latest vow to fight for Palestine, Bin Laden thinks he can get some respect the way Saddam Hussein and others did before him. That sure turned out well, didn’t it?

Was the trip already planned or was it a last minute scramble because of the President’s trip to Israel? She went to Israel first.

Tom

marinetbryant - 17 May 2008 05:46 PM

Was the trip already planned or was it a last minute scramble because of the President’s trip to Israel? She went to Israel first.

Tom

The Democrats are doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to knock the “OBAMA THE APPEASER” story out of the picture.

Everything possible.

marinetbryant - 17 May 2008 05:46 PM

Was the trip already planned or was it a last minute scramble because of the President’s trip to Israel? She went to Israel first.

Tom

She was already in the area for the 60th celebration in Israel and I guess she figured she caught so much static about missing Iraq on her last trip to the area she better make a visit.

But now this makes you wonder if she hit her head on something before she got there

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a top Democratic critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, expressed confidence during a visit to Iraq on Saturday that expected provincial elections will promote national reconciliation.

Pelosi, who led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Baghdad, spoke after the group met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq.

She welcomed Iraq’s progress in passing a budget as well as oil legislation and a bill paving the way for provincial elections in the fall that are expected to more equitably redistribute power among local officials.

She said the visit was to “pay our respects to our troops and at the same time learn more about what the situation is on the ground here.”

Pelosi was hopeful about the upcoming elections after meeting with Iraq’s Sunni parliamentary speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani.

“We’re assured sure the elections will happen here, they will be transparent, they will be inclusive and they will take Iraq closer to the reconcilation we all want it to have,” she said.

Pelosi’s visit comes a day after she led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding…

For God sakes Nano! Next time put a warning up when you post something like that. I just ate my dinner. And almost lost it.

I’m sure the poor woman had to run ducking enemy gun fire at the airport again.

What ? that wasn’t her!!Ah crap all those libs are starting to look AND SOUND ALIKE.

John florida - 17 May 2008 09:19 PM

I’m sure the poor woman had to run ducking enemy gun fire at the airport again.

What ? that wasn’t her!!Ah crap all those libs are starting to look AND SOUND ALIKE.

Damn pols are always ducking something (a question, a tough issue). Here’s hoping she stands up to whatever the enemy is dishing out like a man…

...er, I mean woman.

To hell with the danger. She’s an American, dammit!

(sure hope she doesn’t step on a land mine or sump’n)