WASHINGTON - In a direct affront to the Bush administration, a Democratic senator spent an hour Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, emerging from the meeting to say Assad was willing to help control the
Iraq-Syrian border.

Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, met with Assad after the State Department said that it disapproved of his trip. The United States has limited diplomatic ties with
Syria because of its support of Hezbollah and Hamas, which the U.S. deems terrorist organizations, and
President Bush has expressed reluctance to seek help from Damascus on Iraq until the Syrians curb that support and reduce their influence in Lebanon.


Fla. senator defies Bush, visits Syria - Yahoo! News



This has got to be good to read. How dare the man look for solutions behind the prez's back.

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If he can actually accomplish something, more power to him. I'd suspect he's just being a useful idiot, however.

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At least someone is looking for a solution to this mess.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

I'm suspicous.

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Nelson is kind of an embarrassment down here.

I don't think that's accurate. He's been a very popular politician for at least two decades. And he's certainly no dummy. But he's also not known for being knowledgable about foreign policy, which may have led him to do something that he didn't fully understand.

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I'd say it's pretty accurate. I've been voting against him for years.

At least he tried to do something and did not sit around whining and agreeing with all the pea brains in Washington.

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I would too, especially a guy that may be doing his own thinking. That ncan be a scary thing in Washington.

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In his defense.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US senator who traveled to
Syria this week defended his trip as being in the interest of US policy and in keeping with last week's
Iraq Study Group recommendations.

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, who traveled to Syria on Wednesday, told National Public Radio that despite White House objections to his meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he believed his outreach to Damascus was in keeping with the panel's report on forging the way forward in Iraq


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061214...s_061214141440

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