To lazy minded media - No, Dem visits to Syria were NOT the same as GOP letter. [View all]

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When Pelosi made her trip to Syria, and Kerry, Dodd, Specter, Rockefeller made theirs it was TO SEE WHAT EXACTLY was happening in Syria by probing for answers - it was INFORMATION GATHERING.

WHY did they HAVE to find out for themselves - because Congress knew by then that they and the nation and the leaders of other nations had already been LIED into a full-scale war by Bush-Cheney WH who now wanted to find a way to expand that war into invading Syria.

Same thing?

Back at that time, Assad was a more reasonable leader, dictatorial, more secular, more in line with Saddam of the 90s. It was the Arab Spring and the prospect of being overthrown and executed that triggered his current paranoia (situational paranoia, but, not without cause) that would target all of his perceived enemies. No, he didn't do a complete 180, but, he did do a 120.

No difference?

GOP senate isn't probing and investigating in their conduct with this letter - they are DECREEING that their position on Iraq will prevail over this president - a president who HAS NOT LIED TO CONGRESS to start a war.

The corporate media is pushing this both sides did it claim; When and where you can please point out the stark differences….especially in the context of the times. Don't let them get away with their rampant revisionism.

BTW, media, you also seem to have forgotten THIS:
Pitts in Syria before Pelosi
But county’s U.S. rep. draws less criticism

While U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming visit to Syria has caused the White House to bristle, a little-publicized rendezvous took place Sunday between Syria's president and Lancaster County's congressman.

And though Bush administration officials have been criticizing Pelosi, it's not clear what role the White House and the U.S. Department of State played when U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts and two other Republican congressmen met with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Pitts is a Chester County Republican who represents Lancaster County.
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