[La Enchiladita]

I have not concluded from his silence that he wrote the article, just asking for clarification. My guess is that he did not.

I have many times posted AP and other articles that do not credit an author, so in the 'author' space provided by FR I write "Staff."

I think the poster was confused and placed his own name there. I could be wrong. It's not everyone's style to stay with a thread they originate, but I prefer when the 'host' sticks around...

[Candor7]

The USA is not a combatant in Israel's war, and it should not be. It is dysfunctional to consider the creation of a Palistinian State as a non sequiter even as war is waged between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah. As far as US policy goes, Zionism, a thing of beauty I personally admire BTW, cannot be confused as congruent with US policy. Hamas must have some hope as should the Palestinian people, who now surely must understand their folly in their most recent election after the death of Arafat.Why the knee jerk reaction to the creation of a Palestinian State, which is official US policy, yet to be abandoned?

So Meat's diatribe about Condi and his facile Blogpimping has little intrinsic worth but to fan the flames of confusion about our nations chief plenipotentiary officer at a time when the team needs to be united. I think Condi is doing an admirable, skilful diplomatic job so far, all round. Meat is a headhunter and a pro Zionist who seems to want Pearlman to be Condi's stand in for a reoccupation of the 1967 boundary lands of Israel. This makes Meat's post here self serving to have Freepers visit his Blogosphere. I hardly consider his motive and stand very illuminating on any of the issues, nor his action very patriotic for a man proclaiming his US conservatism so self-servingly. Free Republic is not a very good place to head hunt one of our best when she is in the middle of a very important game that is played for keeps. In the middle of the fog of war and her work to evolve clarity, this blogsters approach is gauche at best and not much better than Spam at its worst.

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http://redmeatconservative.blogspot.com/2006/07/condi-discusses-israeli-war-on-foxnews.html **********************************************

Condi Discusses Israeli War on Foxnews Sec. of State Rice was just interviewed on Foxnews. On the positive side she once again definitively supported Israel while espousing the meaningless phrases of avoiding civilians just to placate the Europeans. On the other hand, she is still vociferously pushing for a Palestinian terror state even after everything that has happened?!! She made some disturbing references to "extreme elements of Hamas" numerous times. This means that she believes that there are moderate Hamas factions that can be legitimizing for the sole purpose of creating a state and cutting Israel in half!! Is there nothing that the Palestinian terrorist government and citizens can do that will convince her that the creation of the most violent terror state in the world will bring peril? Also, the Foxnews anchor kept hammering her about her tough talk on Syria and Iran and lack of deeds to back it up. She responded with the usual cliches and indecisive rhetoric that has become so typical of every beaurocrat. The US State Dep't needs to stop playing both sides of the fence and disseminating hypocritical policies towards Israel, Iran, and Syria. ****************************************

Hardly worth reading.