Dems want dialog with Iran, but not Bush

SFGate.com:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran.

The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran.

"Speaking just for myself, I would be ready to get on a plane tomorrow morning, because however objectionable, unfair and inaccurate many of (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's) statements are, it is important that we have a dialogue with him,'' Lantos said. "Speaking for myself, I'm ready to go -- and knowing the speaker, I think that she might be.''

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Apparently they want to go over and offer them a deal they have already rejected from the Russians on supplying nuclear fuel.

Meanwhile they have turned down an invitation to talk with President Bush on the war in Iraq according to the Washington Times.

President Bush yesterday accused Democrats of playing politics with an emergency war funding bill and called congressional leaders to the White House next week to discuss the impasse, but Democrats immediately snubbed the invitation.
Turning up the heat on Democrats, who left town before sending to the president a bill that he has repeatedly said he will veto, Mr. Bush said, "Democratic leaders in Congress are bent on using a bill that funds our troops to make a political statement about the war.
"They need to do it quickly and get it to my desk so I can veto it, and then Congress can get down to the business of funding our troops without strings and without further delay," the president said to applause from veterans at American Legion Post 177 in Fairfax.
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So they are eager to talk to our enemies, but have no interest in talking to the President. Way to go Democrats. Show everyone whose side you are on.