'Hairy Legs' Pelosi to Support Terrorist Nations on Trip

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Nancy Pelosi Heads House Trip to Middle East
NewsMax.com Wires Friday, March 30, 2007

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Israel on Friday and
planned to visit Syria, a country the Bush administration has shunned, on
her second fact-finding trip to the Middle East since taking the gavel in
January.

Pelosi's repeat trip to the Middle East indicates she has no intention of
letting the White House have the sole province on foreign policy. She has
already forced legislation through the House that would order all combat
troops out of Iraq by September 2008, a measure that resembles a similar
measure approved by the Democratic-run Senate.

The Bush administration has mostly refused to engage Syria diplomatically
because of its ties to terrorist networks. U.S. officials held their first
direct, high-level contact with Syrian representatives in years this month
when they met with officials from several Middle East countries in Baghdad
to discuss Iraq.

Others traveling with Pelosi were Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison of
Minnesota, Henry Waxman and Tom Lantos of California, and Nick Rahall of
West Virginia, and Ohio Republican David Hobson. Ellison is the first Muslim
member of Congress.

The House has adjourned for a two-week spring break.

The group planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and to
travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,
said Ellison's spokesman, Rick Jauert.

The speaker plans to address the Israeli Knesset on Sunday in what will be
her first address to a foreign government and as the highest ranking
American woman to speak before the Israeli parliament, according to Pelosi's
office.

She is expected to discuss "America's commitment to Israel and the
challenges facing the two nations in the Middle East," according to a
statement.

In late January, Pelosi and a close political ally, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.,
led a delegation of House members to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and other
neighboring countries.

The January trip to Baghdad came just days after the president asked
Congress in his State of the Union address to give his revised war strategy
a chance to work. Bush is sending more than 21,500 additional combat troops,
plus thousands of other support troops, to Iraq in a bid to tamp down on
sectarian attacks and provide enough security to hasten reconstruction
efforts.



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