[NinoFan]

I am getting real tired of this.

[Question Liberal Authority]

This IS restrained. Wait until you see "miffed".

[ByDesign]

"Rice says the best opportunity now to deescalate the crisis is through a three-member United Nations delegation heading to the region."

More hot air, useless "dialog" and incompetent bumbling, sure, that's just what's needed.

I'm sure their solution to the problem will be Isreal giving up more land and concessions to the animals that surround them.

[Dallas59]

Obligatory finger shaking.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Condi -- you know I worship and adore you, and would slither on my nekkid belly over the discarded hypodermic needles of ten thousand AIDS victims in order to get you into the Big Chair...

... but (and with all true, due respect, ma'am): button it.

(Ping)

[DTogo]

The White House is likely giving Israel both thumbs up behind the scenes.

(one would hope, anyway)

[ChristianDefender]

Restraint is surrender Ms. Rice...

[LibWhacker]

Groan... When will it stop?

We'd probably urge Tel Aviv to use restraint while the haji were sawing Israel's head off. Embarrassing.

[msnimje]

Dr. Rice uses no words accidentally. "Restraint" does not mean stop and has no concrete limit.

This is a good statement and shows the US government trust Israel to do everything it can to keep the good parts of the Lebanese government intact.

[Flyer]

Rice Calls for Israeli Restraint

Not a single quote from Secretary Rice in the article. I wonder what her actual words were.

Anyway, she's State Department now. Diplo-Talk.

[Lancey Howard]

Rice is calling on Israel to exercise restraint in its ongoing military offensive to free kidnapped Israeli soldiers. She says Syria and Iran must stop backing terrorists.

Condi just got things backwards and mixed up the chronology a little, that's all. What she meant to say was, "If Syria and Iran stop backing terrorists for a few years, THEN Israel should show some restraint." There. All fixed. No biggie.

[Lancey Howard]

Rice says the best opportunity now to deescalate the crisis is through a three-member United Nations delegation heading to the region.

Oh please.... Is this Scrappleface? Is it?

[Zeon Cowboy]

Oh, please. This is restraint. If Israel had put all their strength into these attacks, Lebanon would be a big smoking crater right now.

[GregB]

Bugger off lady!!!!!

[WLR]

Abassador Speak?politician Speak

"But as Israel exercises that right of self defense, Rice says it is important that Israeli leaders exercise restraint and avoid civilian casualties."


Merrican translation.


We say bad things about you little Israel... Don't kick the heck out of them. Stop.....Don't..... Stop
Don't Stop.



W

[jeffers]

I liked Condi a lot better when she said what she thought, instead of trying to play CYA.

Sure, our Muslim allies need stroked from time to time, sure, Bush made it clear that we aren't going to jerk any Israeli strings unless they start looking over the Golan, a UN veto makes all that pretty clear, but in my opinion, it's about time for somebody to tell radical Islam to STFU or die.

[nothingnew]

Rice says the best opportunity now to deescalate the crisis is through a three-member United Nations delegation heading to the region.

Yeah, I'll vote for Condi if she ever runs for POTUS. Yeah, right.

FMCDH(BITS)

[TomGuy]

MSNBC reported this:

An Israeli minister has responded to Dr. Rice: 'We are under attack. We will do whatever we need to to defend ourselves.'


In another, later report Dr. Rice was saying that they need to get back to the Roadmap to Peace.

[IIRC, that Roadmap required Israel to give way much land and actually help the Palis, and that didn't work out very well in the first 5 years of the Bush Admin.]

[Jeff Gordon]

What she wanted to say was, "Now is not the time to Nuc them."

[TomGuy]

I posted this thread in "news" yesterday afternoon, and it quickly/immediately got pushed to "blog" status:

US's Rice Calls For Israel To Exercise Restraint

"I think they understand why they need to exercise restraint," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters travelling in Germany with U.S. President George W. Bush. "It is a message we are continuing to emphasize."