Here are a couple of current articles:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/13/nelson.syria.ap/index.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2006/12/all_aboard_the_damascus_train.html
Quote:No word from Nelson on whether Damascus will stop resupplying Hezbollah with weapons and assassinating government officials in Beirut.
Indeed.
Certainly Senators Nelson and Kerry are doing nothing but undermining the president of the United States.
Kerry's and Nelson's trip is nothing more than two libs deciding to act on the Iraq Surrender Group's report when the administration has rejected the plan. Nelson and Kerry would like to make everything happen that was published in that report.
Even an ultra-liberal senator from California, Barbara Boxer, saw the light concerning Syria, and along with Rick Santorum, collaborated to put forth S 982, "Syria Accountability Act of 2003"
http://www.theorator.com/bills108/s982.html
Quote:To halt Syrian support for terrorism, end its occupation of Lebanon, stop its development of weapons of mass destruction, cease its illegal importation of Iraqi oil, and hold Syria accountable for its role in the Middle East, and for other purposes.
Syria has a horse in the Iraq power race (Syria was sanctioned by the U.N. from importing oil from Iraq to the tune of $1.2 Billion a year).
Taking the Syrian government at its word, as if the Syrian government were some neutral country like Switzerland to help "stabilize" Iraq, is a lot like the Fox telling the farmer that it will do everything to help stabilize the death rate among chickens in the henhouse.
These two arrogant democrat senators, obviously emboldened by the minor victories in the 2006 elections, are as dangerous as they are naive and foolish.
Kerry has a history of selling this nation out. He did it in North Vietnam and there is no question this leopard's spots never changed. He reminds me of Ron Silver's character in the original "Die Hard", when Ellis gets shot in the head after attempting to negotiate with terrorist thieves, following his fit of demented cocaine-induced braggadocio.