"A Slanted Truce and Rice's Latest Obscenity." by Matthew Rothschild

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Matthew Rothschild wrote:
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> As Israel continues to drop bombs on Lebanon, and Hezbollah continues to lob rockets into Israel, it's hard to find any reason for hope.
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> But Ruth Conniff manages to do so in her posting "Israelis, American Muslims for Peace."
http://progressive.org/mag_rcb080806


> For my part, I analyze the truce that Bush and Rice are peddling, and I point out another outrageously callous comment from Condoleezza Rice in "A Slanted Truce and Rice's Latest Obscenity."

http://progressive.org/mag_wx080806

By Matthew Rothschild
August 8, 2006

I’m for anything that will stop the bloodshed in Lebanon and Israel.

But the resolution for a truce that Condoleezza Rice has cooked up is hopelessly slanted.

And woefully, unforgivably, tardy, too.

Every death in Lebanon and Israel over the last two weeks should weigh on the conscience of Condoleezza Rice and George Bush, because they could have halted this madness by calling for an immediate, unconditional, cease-fire back then.

At the August 7 press conference with Bush, Rice uttered what should be considered an obscenity when she said that “this has been time that’s been well spent over the last couple of weeks.”

Was it worth hundreds of lives?.......

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1. I was absolutely appalled when I heard her say that. An obscenity indeed.

From the August 7 press conference at the "Western White House" From the Whitehouse.org site

Quoting Rice:

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But as the President said, this last three weeks has been extremely important. Had we done this three weeks ago, we were talking about what people -- an unconditional cease-fire that I can guarantee you would not have addressed any of these items that both sides know are going to have to be addressed if we're going to have a sustainable cease-fire in the future. So this has been time that's been well spent over the last couple of weeks, that everybody agrees it's time to have a cessation. We're going to work a little bit more with the parties, and I think this resolution will be the right basis -- both to cease the hostilities and to move forward.

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