Posted on 01/17/2009 7:25:32 AM PST by Publius804
Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up?
As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale.
He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as told, said Olmert.
The crowd loved it. Here is the background.
After intense negotiations with Britain and France, Secretary of State Rice had persuaded the Security Council to agree on a resolution calling for a cease-fire. But Olmert wanted more time to kill Hamas.
As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale.
He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as told, said Olmert.
The crowd loved it. Here is the background.
After intense negotiations with Britain and France, Secretary of State Rice had persuaded the Security Council to agree on a resolution calling for a cease-fire. But Olmert wanted more time to kill Hamas.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
>>>> It is a retelling of what the PM of Israel said. Either it’s true, and our President acted disgracefully. Or it’s false, and shows the contempt that the USA is held in Israel. <<<<
>> Your logic is impeccable. <<
“If it’s not A it must be B” is about the worst canard in rehtoric. Incidentally, “impeccable” means “sinless.”
Besides, if Ohlmert’s statements are so terrible, why did Buchanan feel the need to spice them up with words like “clueless”? Ohlmert didn’t call the president “clueless”; Buchanan did. Ohlmert only said that the president hadn’t known what Rice was about state. Do you really expect that the president reads and approves every speech made by everyone in his cabinet? Why bother with a cabinet? If Rice was about to state something that contradicts the President’s interests, she’s the one at fault, not the President, whether you agree with the President or not.
Frankly, I’m glad to know that when a world leader gets on the phone and tells the president he must urgently speak with him, that the president would halt a speech and attend to the matter, whether that leader is Ohlmert, or Brown, or Merckl, or whoever.
How ironic that someone named Sobieski is siding with the Islamacist horde. Jan Sobieski sent his troops from Poland to Vienna to rescue western civilization from the horde, rather than question what business Austrian matters were to Poland.
>> [Buchanan]’s just megaphoning Ohlmert’s story <<
Utter rubbish. Ohlmert didn’t call Bush clueless; it was Buchanan who characterized him that way. It was Buchanan who called it “public gloating,” and used the term “humiliate.” And Buchanan who claimed we subordinated our own interests in the Arab world. And isn’t hysterical to hear Buchanan cite the New York Times’ description of Hillary Clinton as if Clinton were the paradigm of judgment and the New York Times the perfection of journalistic integrity.
Buchanan was spot on about immigration, but they guy’s way to obsessed with Jew-hating.
He always wanted to serve too in those dramatic times, with his uncle.
Finally, Buchanan, who is not known for his historical accuracy, should have done some fact checking.
U.S. officials dispute Olmert's claims
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's claim that he got the U.S. government to abstain on a U.N. measure on the Gaza crisis was untrue, officials said.
If Hitler blitzed Poland at the same blazing speed, and with equal care and concern, how many months (years?) would it have taken the German Army to capture Warsaw?
Och, Pat; I hardly know ye!
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:10-11)
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rosner/50302?cp=2
” Olmert’s frustration with Rice is personal. Today he was not shy about airing this irritation in explicit terms:
She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour,” Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon…
In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour,” Olmert said. “I said ‘get me President Bush on the phone’. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care. ‘I need to talk to him now’. He got off the podium and spoke to me.
I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour.”
Which Nazi analogy are you referring to?
I agree it’s rude, and simply ask: is that the contempt that Israel’s leaders hold us in?
Yes, undoubtedly, Buchanan was thinking about football.
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Those pesky Jews really get under Herr Buchanan’s skin.
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Thanks to an American patriot for bringing up this story. I’d say that this story would get under any Americans skin. Either it’s true, and that is disgraceful from our side. Or it’s not true, and the fact that an “ally’ would so arrogantly embarass us is disgraceful.
And since we abstained from our own resolution, it’s looking like the former.
Thanks to an American patriot for retelling this disgraceful tale.
I say either it’s true or not. But I’ll wait for your third option.
The issue is not Buchannan’s patriotic retelling the story from this cretin. It’s the disgraceful behavior that this foreigner displayed towards our country.
No, I don’t think it’s good that the US president dances when foreigners call him. It’s disgraceful.
BTW Siding w/ what’s best for America is not siding w/ Islamicists.
Talking this way about the president is BDS. Or it’s true, which is worse yet.
Um, saying that Pres Bush jumped off a podium to take his call is gloating that the US gvt is in his back pocket
And if the Prez did, it is. If he didn’t it’s disrespectful to talk that way.
Either way, it’s bad for America.
Not sure what you mean by “Likudnik”. Don’t care about some foreign country’s PM.
Talking this way about the president is BDS. Or it’s true, which is worse yet.
Ehud Barack should have kept his big mouth shut.... What he said may or may not be true but he should not talk that way
Aside from that do you have any other problems with Israel wacking Hamas and trying to stop Hamas from firing rockets and missiles into Israel?
I don’t care about Israel or Hamas, except as it affects America. And as far as I can see, it means nothing to us.
Let those barbarians go at it, I guess.
Basically, it’s like Bosnia. Not very important to the future of the USA.
King Jan Sobieski led the army that turned back the Muslims from the gates of Vienna on September 11, 1683.
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