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DAMASCUS - "Our meeting with the president [Bashar al-Assad] enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks" with Syria. These were the words of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, during her groundbreaking two-day visit to Damascus.
Strange, but if Olmert wanted to send a message to the Syrians, why would he choose Pelosi as the messenger, given the variety of other choices he has at the Bush White House and the US Department of State? Isn't Olmert a strong ally of President George W Bush? And isn't Bush very much opposed to Pelosi's visit to Syria?
That's what the US media have been saying this week. Don't Bush and Olmert disagree with Pelosi on most of her views with regard to Syria, Iraq and Palestine? Pelosi, after all, wants to engage the Syrians. Bush and Olmert do not. Pelosi wants the US Army out of Iraq. The two men do not. There are two possible answers to this question.
One would be that Olmert decided to break with the Bush administration after the Democratic election victory last year and rely on the president's opponents in Congress for his Middle East diplomacy. That certainly is unlikely. Or maybe Pelosi was actually in Damascus at the request of Bush himself.
Found on Uruknet.info
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