We've started talking to ''terrorists'' again

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - The United States held the highest-level contact with Syria in more than two years on Thursday during a big international conference on Iraq and exchanged pleasantries with Iran's foreign minister.

The meeting marks an abrupt change in the policy of U.S. President George W. Bush, who stopped contacts with Syria on the grounds that Damascus had not complied with U.S. demands.

The United States has accused Syria of allowing foreign fighters to enter Iraq through the long border and is pushing for an international tribunal to try suspects in the killing of Hariri. A U.N. probe has implicated Lebanese and Syrian security officials in the killing but Damascus denies all the charges.

The U.S. military in Iraq acknowledged on Thursday that Syria was doing more to stop the flow of fighters into Iraq.

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Bush & Co must be really desperate as they started talks again after two years of radio silence. Not so long Bush & Co choose for a full scale attack on Pelosi for engaging in talks with Syria and now we can suddenly talk again with the so-called terrorists?

I don't think there is anyone on this world taking the Bush administration serious, do they actually take themselves serious?