Bush tells Pelosi Syria attacks were State Dept.’s fault

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/20/bush-tells-pelosi-syria-criticism-was-state-depts-fault/

Bush tells Pelosi Syria attacks were State Dept.’s fault.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told colleagues yesterday that she was incredulous after President Bush pulled her aside at the end of a meeting Wednesday and told her he did not criticize her recent trip to Syria. After all, Bush and other senior administration officials and top Republicans had slammed the speaker publicly for meeting in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But in a private meeting with Democratic lawmakers yesterday, Pelosi said Bush told her in an unsolicited comment that it was actually the State Department that criticized her.”

Hmmm....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902356.html?nav=rss_politics

Differing Tales of a White House Encounter

By Michael Abramowitz and Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 20, 2007; Page A29

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told colleagues yesterday that she was incredulous after President Bush pulled her aside at the end of a meeting Wednesday and told her he did not criticize her recent trip to Syria.

After all, Bush and other senior administration officials and top Republicans had slammed the speaker publicly for meeting in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But in a private meeting with Democratic lawmakers yesterday, Pelosi said Bush told her in an unsolicited comment that it was actually the State Department that criticized her.

According to two people who were at the meeting, the speaker said she told the president that she wanted to come back to the White House and give him an official briefing on the Syria trip and Bush quickly motioned for his staff to set up a meeting.

Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino, who was at the White House meeting Wednesday, took issue with Pelosi's account of the conversation in the Cabinet Room, which came at the end of talks largely devoted to funding the Iraq war. Perino said that Pelosi started the conversation about the Syria trip and that she never heard Bush back off his criticism.

"I was there the whole time. I don't recall him saying that," Perino said. "I know that he is critical of the trip, and what he says in private is the same as in public."

Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said the conversation took place privately, as an aside.

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[tanyev]

1. Now what is he trying to pull?

Didn't State Dept help make arrangements for the trip?

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. I think what he's trying to say, is that the State Department's position

was that they did not agree with Pelosi's trip, and Bush repeated their opinion. Therefore, it wasn't Bush's fault. He was just repeating someone else's opinion.

Shit. I think this is how we got into Iraq.

[babylonsister]

6. Yes, the state dept. knew all about it. Dimson best check with his' brain'

before he opens his mouth:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3215807

[rodeodance]

3. typical--always placing blame elsewhere

[opihimoimoi]

4. Who ya gonna believe??? Bad Pubs Bad Pubs...who ya gonna believe??

The one who has credibility.....BushCo got none so I gatta go with Nancy's version.

[rodeodance]

5. you forgot Dana

[TwilightGardener]

7. So Perino is calling Pelosi a liar. Who is this non-elected skank again?

[displacedtexan]

8. In other words, Bush* blames Condi.

Hope she's happy.

[rodeodance]

9. always protect the guy at the top.

[Peace Patriot]

10. My first thought was that the Bush Junta is gonna come down like the WTC--

into its own footprint.

A straight-down and seemingly impossible demolition from the inside.

On the surface, Bush's aside to Pelosi was so juvenile as to be unbelievable--if we didn't know already that Bush is a case of arrested development. A 12 year old as president. Bad little boy trying to sidle up to the most powerful parent in the room, and get into her good graces, as protective cover for his many crimes. To have such a juvenile personality--and such a warped one--running the federal government is extremely hazardous to the people beneath him. He will betray any of them, and throw them to the wolves, in a cold minute, to save his own skin. They are all expendable. So, in order to curry favor with Grandmother Pelosi, he jettisons his own State Department and his loyal dog, Condi Rice. And it's interesting that--apart from possible personal ambition motives of Rice (vs. Pelosi), it probably wasn't the State Department so much as it was Dick Cheney and the NeoCon cabal who freaked over Pelosi visiting Syria. It's the sort of thing Condi would like to have done. And it certainly appears to have been a brilliant end run around Cheney's planned war with Iran. But it's hard to know whether to read Bush's remark to Pelosi in this way, as part of the dynamics of a regime with this very weak, rotten spot at its center--Bush; there could be a more cunning agenda in it, that is, Pelosi is now the power in the Middle East, and Bush wants to cut into her action, and find out what she knows, in order to protect Bush/Cheney and Oil Cartel interests and/or to stab her in the back. With everything else that is happening right now--scandal after scandal hitting the Bush Junta, and their evidently having fallen into disfavor with at least part of the Corporate Cabal (which I attribute to the success of the democracy movement in South America; the Bush Junta has "lost" South America as easy plundering ground)--I'm tending toward the WTC scenario for the Bushites: inner collapse, and crushing each other, as floor after floor "melts" into a pile of improbable steaming ruin.