WHY was it OK for SPEAKER HASTERT to UNDERCUT AMERICAN POLICY WITH COLUMBIA???

Question

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB69/part3.html#doc52

At the same time Congress was attaching human rights conditions to U.S. security assistance programs and negotiating a formal end-use monitoring agreement with the Colombian defense ministry, other lawmakers were secretly assuring Colombian officials that they felt such restrictions were unwarranted, and would work to either remove the conditions or limit their effectiveness.
One example of this was a congressional delegation led by Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) which met with Colombian military officials, promising to “remove conditions on assistance” and complaining about “leftist-dominated” U.S. congresses of years past that “used human rights as an excuse to aid the left in other countries.”

Hastert said he would to correct this situation and expedite aid to countries allied in the war on drugs and also encouraged Colombian military officials to “bypass the U.S. executive branch and communicate directly with Congress.”

Answer 1

Newt went to China in 97 as well, and i'm guessing he was given high marks for that trip. What the republicans on this thread don't get is the fact that when they do it, its patriotic, but when the dems do it there considered traitors which makes me laugh really hard. Every question I've seen a republican post about this manufactured outrage has said nothing of the republican senators that are on the same trip with Pelosi. Now why is that?

Answer 2

I assume you are trying to relate this to Pelosi's Syria visit. Guess what. Very few of us probably know about the scenario you digged up in an archive somewhere, but most have heard about Pelosi. That's the biggest difference right there.

Now your point appears to be that if a Republican does it, why should it be a big deal if a Democrat does it. Well first I would have to ask you - do you think it was OK for Pelosi to make the visit? I don't. And after reading your Hastert citation, I would say what he did was wrong too if it were true (you should cite at least THREE sources).

I think it's amazing how some people want to defend a wrong action by looking at another.

Answer 3

Thats a stable question... i don't have all the information and would would desire to do extra analyze. i'd say you could desire to seem at historical past in a different eye. no longer all activities may well be whilst in comparison with one yet another with the comparable scale. it fairly is logical. i'd say that situations have been different then. the phobia threat wasn't very seen then. The adversaries are different. All i understand is that some midsection-jap States make the main possibilities to tutor u . s . of america against itself. they're going to use Nancy Pelosi regardless of her good purpose. it fairly is how deceptive those everybody is.

Answer 4

Why do Liberals always point to errors of the past to excuse errors of the present?

Answer 5

You scolded me today for bringing up the past and told me I should stick to there here and now. So what the heck are you doing?

Answer 6

oh ... Hastert's a republican, so everthing is OK by todays NeoCons.

Answer 7

It's Colombia, Binky - COLOMBIA!!!