Thanks for the feeds.
I seriously doubt I'll ever be able to muster even the slightest respect for Dr. Condoleeza Rice again.
Aa far as I'm concerned, she's in the pile with Olmert, Annan, Clinton and Kerry.
It must be the air over at the State Department or something, the same thing happened to Colin Powell.
Casualties of war.
Olmert Thanks Bush for U.N. Resolution
By NEDRA PICKLER, The Associated Press
Aug 11, 2006 8:51 PM
CRAWFORD, Texas - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert thanked President Bush on Friday for his work on a resolution to stop violence between Israel and Hezbollah, the White House said. It was the first direct talks between the two leaders since the fighting began.
The eight-minute phone call with Bush at his ranch in Texas was initiated by Olmert, said Frederick Jones, spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House.
Olmert endorsed a Mideast cease-fire plan that the United States and France proposed Friday at the United Nations.
"Prime Minister Olmert thanked President Bush for the work he had done on the draft U.N. resolution on the Lebanon crisis," Jones said. "The president expressed his view that the crisis was provoked by Hezbollah with the support of Iran and Syria and that we need to ensure that the reach of the Lebanese government extends throughout the country."
The agreement, which was unanimously adopted by the U.N. Security Council, calls for putting 30,000 Lebanese and U.N. troops along the Israel-Lebanon border, where Hezbollah militants have been fighting against Israel. It falls short of some of Israel's demands, including a strong mandate for the U.N. forces to take on Hezbollah guerrillas.
But Israel has been unable to defeat Hezbollah and was concerned about growing Israeli casualties, as well as international condemnation, if the war continued. The fighting has killed more than 800 people, destroyed Lebanon's infrastructure and inflamed tensions across the Middle East.
Bush has staunchly backed Israel in the fighting and the U.S. has been arguing Israel's interests during the U.N. negotiations. Olmert spoke repeatedly to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the last four weeks but never directly to Bush until Friday.
Rice predicted that both governments would accept the agreement.
"We have heard from the government of Lebanon that they also believe that this is a resolution that can serve their interests," Rice said in an interview with CNN. "In fact, the interests of both the Israelis and the Lebanese now is to end the large-scale violence and to begin to lay a foundation for peace."
The White House had predicted that a previous draft it was pushing would come to a vote earlier in the week, but negotiators were forced to make changes to address objections from Lebanon and other Arab states.
"A lot of times diplomacy is a bit like a taffy pull, in that you think you may have something that seems to be right on the verge of being completed, and it just gets extended a bit," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. "As the president has pointed out, diplomacy can be a little bit messy and unpredictable."
http://www.examiner.com/a-215090~Olmert_Thanks_Bush_for_U_N__Resolution.html
This ceasefire resolution is pure garbage. On the bright side, Condi sure did look good giving her speech.
Hey, if your gonna spoon feed the public slop, may as well look spiffy doing it.
All things are NOT as they SEEM,,i know I sound like a "broken record",,,BUT,,,There are THINGS going on behind
the SMOKE that WE do not,,and,,may never SEE,,,A lot will BE SEEN in a few days,,,The UN Krappola is just that,,,
Good only for "turlit-paper",,LOL,,The FACT that ISRAEL
is getting more M-26 MLRS is a hint,,more BOMBS,,is a HINT.
ISRAEL WILL stand fast,,,The hezzi has 3,ooo to 40,000 men OF THE IDF,13.333333 TO 1 (BAD ODDS)
on line are only numbers,,,I was so glad the IDF found those "TUNNELS",,That confirmed what I have posted all along,,THOSE people came to STAY,,from what little I have been able to find,The "dug-in" positions were "drill and blasted" in the BEDROCK by MINERS not some GRUNT with an etool,,,The things that were found COST$$$$$I want to SEE what was found,,There is NO known weapon that will take them OUT but a GRUNT. I hope you are feeling better !!!
CHICKIN'-SOUP,,,LOL,,,GET WELL,,,
They never did.
Don't blame Condi for a weak Israeli prime minister.
Be Seeing You,
Chris