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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House has criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plans to stop in Syria next week during a Middle East trip that began Friday.
She will be the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Syria since relations deteriorated between Damascus and Washington.
The United States has accused Syria of aiding the Sunni insurgency in western Iraq with weapons and fighters. Syria also is accused of supporting the militant extremist groups Hezbollah, a Shiite political party and militia, and Hamas.
"We do not encourage and, in fact, we discourage members of Congress to make such visits to Syria," said White House deputy spokeswoman Dana Perino. "This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror, one that is trying to disrupt the (Prime Minister Fouad) Siniora government in Lebanon and one that is allowing foreign fighters to flow through its borders to Iraq.
"I don't know what she is trying to accomplish, and I don't know if anyone in the administration has spoken to her about it," Perino said. "In general, we do discourage such trips."
Responding to a follow-up question, Perino added, "We think that someone should take a step back and think about the message that it sends ... to our allies."
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How come nobody, media included, mentions that there are three republican congressmen there meeting with Assad as well?
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While U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming visit to Syria has caused the White Houe to bristle, a little-publicized rendezvous took place Sunday between Syria's president and Lancaster County's congressman.
And though Bush administration officials have been criticizing Pelosi, it's not clear what role the White House and the U.S. Department of State played when U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts and two other Republican congressmen met with Syrian President Bassar Assad.
Pitts is a Chester County Republican who represents Lancaster County.
Gabe Neville, Pitts' chief of staff, said Monday the conference between Assad and the three Republicans was intended to be "low profile."
"It was done in cooperation with the administration," he said.
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It's not surprising anymore.
I've also come to expect the national media parrotting the administration line and not knowing/desiring to report that three republican congressmen were sent by the administration to Syria a few days earlier.
It's just a sad fact that we don't have any Cronkites or Murrows in this country anymore.
Instead, we get Courics. Flashy exterior with no backbone inside. Someone who tells the news like the parent corporations want, which is not rocking the boat.
But how ballsy of the Administration to publicly blast Pelosi for this when they had already sent three Republicans to the exact same place. America is going to fall for his lies and spin on this one too. Noone is telling them any different...
Noone is going to know that Bush sent three Republicans to be diplomatic too. Only that Pelosi is going behind Bush's back to undermine the troops or some such nonsense.
Pelosi is actually there on behalf of Israel, who is willing to open diplomatic channels and start negotiating.
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