This is a mistake by the Speaker. What if Newt Gingrich pulled something like this when he was running Congress and President Clinton was in the White House. This has to be done in complete coordination with the President and the State Dept. or else the U.S. looks like... well, it looks lik Israel.

Speaker Pelosi is just another American who shows naivity and lack of understand of the Arab hatred against the State of Israel. Of course she puts US interests ahead of those of Israel and quite rightly so. Thus, we MUST learn to stand on our own two feet and look after ourselves. We cannot rely on the US Veto alone.

Pelosi should be hanged for the way she is dressed. I don't agree with Pelosi being ther ein the first place, but the fact remains that you cannot reason or negotiate with scum like Syria or Iran...period!!!

My fondest hope is that she finds Damascus so beautiful, so intriguing, so warm and friendly, that she stays. (Send home the USAF jet, please). And invites a lot of her peace loving, Bush hating friends to join her in the peace capital of the Middle East. Anyone know if she has laid a wreath on Arafat's grave while touring occupied "Palestine?"

and mingles with the syrians. What they don't tell you is how heavily she was guarded and only went to places that had been previously agreed upon. She ate figs, nuts and bought coconut candies. Oh Pulleez. How scripted was that. Let her walk around the city without all of her entourage and fanfare and let's see how she's treated. A traitor to this democracy she surely is. All of this is for show and to embarass the president. If she was so interested in Syria establishing peace ties with Israel, why is this her FIRST visit? She has been in the House of Reps. for many years. A hypocrite for sure is she, and she plays right into the hands of the terrorists.

After dicking around for 100 days,not aproving funds for the troops in Iraq(and claiming to support the troops,) And when passing the meaningless bill,full of pork for her supporters,she hops on a jet to Damascus,dreaming like the rest of the apeasers that the middle east is like Idaho or Iowa. Pelosi,you are in great company....Noam Chomsky is proud of you.

and despite this 80 to 90% of the American Jews will vote for a democrat donkey in 2008. What do they need to wake up? Pictures Pelosi in bed with the dwarf of Iran? A democrat president in 08 is the roadmap to Aushwitz for all of us and once again our brothers from America will look away: global warming, plastic bags in SF, Darfur, not offending their muslims neighbours, fighting against the display of nativity scenes, abortion and gay rights. These are the new idols of our American brothers and so they will vote democrats and let us done...

Israel is on the market. Remodeled. Call Nancy.

Common Rep impech Peluzi , trow the book at her. Give her a cuban welcomed. let her go to venezuela to, to represent the dem of USA.

Our troops right know have enough money to sustain them until 2009. So really the democrats could wait another year without passing a bill. Bush is the one who is undercutting the troops the american public is against this idiotic war and he should bring the troops home the democrats are doing everything other than cutting funding to bring them home and if bush keeps up his veto nonsense they will eventually cut the funding. They should cut the funding right now.

As a woman I am ashamed that Pelosi is speaker of the house. She is an airhead and she is too foolish to be in such an important and visible position in the American government.

...Israel is NOT ready for peace talks. Ms Pelosi must not have heard Olmert correctly.

for suicide. Even our dumbest prime minister ever is not ready to commit suicide.

...hoe representative talkbackers are of the general public. While 80% of Americans oppose Bush and his neo-con hordes, 80% of talkbackers here support them. I guess extreme right wingers have nothing to do but hang around the Net being angry with the world........

Don't group all Americans in your cowardly rant. This is typical democrat kool-aid talk. So quit drinking the stuff and get gutsied up on the inside and grow a spine and a backbone. Where I come from, we would dress you up in a dress and make you wait on tables. Oh wait, maybe you already do. Real men go to war and shut up about it. It's the weak kneed ones who have never been that whine and complain like young girls. I'll even bet that the ultimate coward John Kerry is your hero. He makes a big deal of serving just over 90 days in Viet Nam. And typical to cowardly dem. form, he comes back whinning about the war. I think we should start calling you WHIMPY, WHIMPY, WHIMPY.

So why does Pelosi need to do his spin for him? And why is she bringing Assad messages on behalf of Israel? Israel is perfectly capable of talking to the butcher of Hama without Pelosi's help. In other words, this was a PR trip, and Assad got the PR out of it. There is no lost confidence between Washington and Damascus, because there never has been confidence between Washington and Damascus, other than the obscenely misplaced confidence of James Baker, which permitted Assad's father to occupy Lebanon.

PRAY THAT NOTNING HAPPENS TO BUSH OR CHENEY JUST THINK THIS DUMBA$$ IS THIRD IN CHARGE.

All Americans who are writing on here, please raise hell with your congressmen and women and let's get rid of her NOW! She would sell her soul for her politicsl career.

are 100 percent Wrong. The democrats to me would be worse than the GOP, there are so many problems out there and dilly dallying with the despot of Syria is not the way to solve the problem. Nice time for a first time visit. Nancy do us a favor go visit Darfur and open up your eyes to the abuses there.. What a waste of taxpayers money going to Syria.

Golan stays with Israel. Surely you understand reparations Michael or are you ready to contradict history.

you must be related to PMChamberlian...because of him 60 million people lost their lives due to appeasement

80% is a big number. Are you sure that Americans are that opposed to Bush? I think they oppose how the war is being managed, but they believe that the US went into Iraq with good intentions. There is a difference there. Maybe you should talk about why we went to war and why we have problems in the world...Extreme, radical Islam. Is that too offensive for you? because the fact remains that wherever we see radical Islam, we see war, death, violence and hate. I know Saddam was not a religious man, but he butchered whole villages and gassed his own people...does that not justify what America did???

this Pelosi woman was so naive. G-d help the US with people like her in power!

Proverbs 9:13, A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing. Proverbs 10:14, Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction. Proverbs 15:7, The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so. Jeremiah 5:21, Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Ezekiel 13:3. Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!