Speaker Pelosi In Iraq For Meeting With PM Maliki

[kpete]

Speaker Pelosi In Iraq For Meeting With PM Maliki
SF Gate | January 26, 2007 09:13 AM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has traveled to Iraq for a quick fact-finding visit that will include a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The congressional delegation traveling with the Democratic speaker from San Francisco includes Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who more than a year ago urged President Bush to withdraw American forces from Iraq and is chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the military budget.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/26/MNGVLNPHIH1.DTL

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Well, if there's going to be "success" she'll be leading the way

She's not one to be snookered and will see right through the bullshit.

[phiddle]

2. Maybe she can persuade him to invite us to leave!

[otohara]

3. Good One

I like it!

[phiddle]

4. I'm damn serious---

Bush has recently and consistently declared that we are there to support the "democratically elected government of Iraq". If that government were to ask us to leave, Bush would not even have that fig leaf with which to cover his naked ambition. Remember---everything is possible, what's lacking is the budget. Congress having control of the purse strings, Pelosi could offer Maliki a generous aid package. So, name your price, Mr. Maliki!