so tell me

why is it NOT ok for nancy pelosi (whom i am NOT a big fan of by the way, she's a pussy. she backs down far too easily. she's NOT strong enough. get the king OUT OUT OUT nancy) to talk to syria BUT it's ok for connddoolleezzaa to do so on behalf of the king? methinks thou doth protest too much connddyy and ggeeoorrggiiee

talk is GOOD. it's always a first step.

Rice asks Syria to close its border with Iraq

By Warren P. Strobel and Miret el-Naggar
McClatchy Newspapers
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broke more than two years' worth of diplomatic ice with Syria on Thursday, holding talks here with a top Syrian official in what amounts to a major diplomatic course change by the Bush administration.
Rice said afterward that the meeting, held on the sidelines of an international conference on Iraq, focused on U.S. demands that Syria close its border with Iraq to stem a flow of foreign fighters and arms that's helping fuel Iraq's sectarian violence.
Even on those limited terms, the half-hour meeting between Rice and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem marked a major shift for the Bush administration, which has repeatedly disparaged the need for such talks and criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for visiting Damascus last month.
Engagement with Syria and Iran was one of the major recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which urged President Bush to take a region-wide diplomatic approach by working to stabilize Iraq and secure Arab-Israeli peace. Bush and Rice appear to be accepting some of those recommendations. .........

Rice Meets With Syrian Counterpart
No U.S.-Iran Session At Conference on Iraq


By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 3 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met here Thursday with her Syrian counterpart in the first high-level talks between the two governments in more than two years. Rice characterized the 30-minute session, held on the sidelines of a two-day international conference on Iraq at this Egyptian Red Sea resort, as "businesslike" and "very constructive."
Senior Bush administration officials said that she would not hold a widely anticipated meeting with Iran's foreign minister, but that the United States plans to hold direct talks with Tehran in the near future................