Posted on 07/03/2006 11:17:49 PM PDT by familyop
Ledeen, author of the book, The Terror Masters, said the appeasement policy is being implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has gone so far as to undermine the effort of Senate conservatives, led by Senator Rick Santorum, to put some financial resources into a pro-democracy movement in Iran that could threaten the power of the ruling Mullahs. In order to derail Santorum's amendment, Ledeen said, Rice appealed to Senator Joseph Biden, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and told him that such a move might undermine negotiations with Tehran.
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I read the article. I agree "in principle" -- obviously we need to get tough with Iran. Unfortunately with all the anti-war sentiment that had been whipped up by the liberals and MSM, it's not physically feasible to just go into Iran, without exhausting all the possibilities, even though we know it's futile.
Well hopefully there will not be an Iranian war.
Be sure to really read this one. Santorum and Senate conservatives are being opposed by the Bush Administration for their unauthorized initiatives vis a vis Iran...and rightly so. It's not in their charter to map foriegn policy and Bush is right to quell this cowboy stuff. He's the boss and they are just hired hands.
Note well how this story is slanted to appear as if Rice is somehow being so kind of bitch here. It's deliberate sabotage of the administration. Ledeen has too much integrity to do this,so it's this author who's distorting this story.
Expect more RINO revolts as election time draws nigh. The rodents on the GOP side are scurrying.
Concur.
The other thing that strikes me is that there's a pretty good chance we (the casual reader) don't know everything we need to know in order to judge what the heck is really going on with this.
I'm sure the NYtimes will rush out a front page expose of this if it hurts the President.
Given that we have the means to blackmail both the Iranians and the Turks by
arming Kurdish nationalists. There are a half million Kurds in Iran.
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