Rice takes Mideast mission to Israel - "It is time for a new Middle East"

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | July 25, 2006 | KATHERINE SHRADER

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Excerpt -

JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the time has come for a new Middle East and an urgent end to the violence hanging over the region.

"I have no doubt there are those who wish to strangle a democratic and sovereign Lebanon in its crib," Rice said. "We, of course, also urgently want to end the violence."

Standing beside Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as they prepared to meet in his office, Rice reiterated the United States position that a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon must come with conditions that make an enduring peace.

"It is time for a new Middle East," she said. "It is time to say to those that don't want a different kind of Middle East that we will prevail. They will not."

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[LeoWindhorse]

" the time has come for a new Middle East"

yes, there will be a 'new' Middle East ....
when all the Arabic peoples living there decide to
dump Islam and become Christians , or....Jews!

(I ain't holdin by breathe)

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"Rice reiterated the United States position that a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon must come with conditions that make an enduring peace."

In other words, Israel has all the time needed to finish the job.

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Earlier in Beiruit, Rice disappointed her Lebanese hosts by saying in a face-to-face visit that the U.S. would not press Israel for a quick cease-fire without addressing the longer-term threat from Hezbollah

Yay!

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ping

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Memo To Condi: Take the NFL Commissioner job. You're in way over your head in the SECSTATE's office.

By failing to clean-out Foggy Bottom of all the treasonous Klintoon scum, you've doomed the Bush Administration to failure at every turn.

Ditto with Porter Goss at CIA; he's now gone and the 'housecleaning' job is sadly incomplete.

You were a good National Security Advisor, but you're way beyond your pay grade, now.

Forget POTUS in '08; you've got a snowball's chance.

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Ping!

[SJackson]

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"Memo To Condi: Take the NFL Commissioner job. You're in way over your head in the SECSTATE's office."

Today must be 'International Insult Condi Day' -

North Korea blasts 'imbecile' Rice

[Israeli MK Ahmed] Tibi: Rice Bringing Stupid Ideas to Israel

Palestinians: 'Day of rage' against Rice visit

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Yah, the Condi Haters are out in force. I guess the Brigadiers, the Know Nothings, the Justin Raimondo crowd, and the NAACP sympathizers like being in bed with the Chia Pet in Pyongyang and Hamas in the West Bank.

Be Seeing You,

Chris