U.S. aims to pressure Syria on democracy

[sabra]

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/12680222.htm

U.S. aims to pressure Syria on democracy

NEW YORK - The U.S. is using the largest gathering of world leaders to try to keep up international pressure on Syria by branding it a meddlesome neighbor and a holdout against democratic advances in the Middle East.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice takes up the charge in meetings with other diplomats this week.

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As for Syria, also on the State Department's list of terrorism outlaws, its relations with the U.S. are getting worse.

Monday's meeting of European and Arab powers with economic ties to Lebanon was giving Rice a chance to argue that Syria was continuing to disrupt politics and daily life in Lebanon.

[BlueJac]

1. We should pressure America on democracy!!

[0007]

3. Ya just ain't a wolfing there.

[whathappened]

2. when

are we going to take care of our own soil , i,m sick to death of our noses up everybodys buiness and not taking care of our own

[tom_paine]

4. How can Imperial Amerika, essentially a Totalitarian Nation

(with some of the old pre-Bush trappings of democracy preserved, ineffectual, for the benefot of the rubes)

actually spread something it has recently eliminated on it's own shores?

It can't.

[ShockediSay]

5. Everybody's a millionaire in US Senate. Do they represent us?

Is this what you call representative democracy? Lobbyists making billions? Government contractors more of same? Paying peanuts for taxes? Energy bill passed = tons of pork to the campaign contributors;
prescription coverage more of same; Iraq as well.

[struggle4progress]

6. Pushing for democracy in Syria? Not bloody likely: the Bushistas ..

like having places (like Syria and Uzbekistan) to send people for torture:

No regrets, no apologies about Arar deportation, says U.S. ambassador