Condo now wants UN help

[partylessinOhio]

After Israel knifed her in the back, Condoho has decided to beg the UN for help where she has failed.

Israel did not tell her about the massacre at Qana for EIGHT HOURS when she was right there in Israel. Andrea Mitchell exposed that fact on the evening news yesterday. She said Condoho was shocked and mortified that Israel had done this and undermined her credibility. Condoho then came out and made her statement in a very shaky manner and decided to return to the US.

Well, Condoho should be even more mortified today since Israel has already violated the 48 hour bombing halt for humanitarian aid to Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon all night long.

Rice to seek Mideast cease-fire through UN

July 31, 2006 07:39 AM

Jerusalem - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will seek international consensus for a cease-fire and a "lasting settlement" in the conflict between Lebanon and Israel through a U.N. Security Council resolution this week.

"I am convinced that only by achieving both will the Lebanese people be able to control their country and their future, and the people of Israel finally be able to live free of attack from terrorist groups in Lebanon," Rice told reporters here before departing for Washington.

Rice's marathon effort at shuttle diplomacy was marked by frustration, but she did manage to win a suspension, at least for now, of the aerial bombing by Israel, which has killed and maimed scores of innocent Lebanese men, women and children.

For eight days, Rice has been in meetings around the globe, trying to find a consensus to end the 20 days of fighting between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. She said the U.N. resolution that she will call for will include a cease-fire, political components to address issues that have repeatedly sparked fighting between the two countries and the authorization of an international force to help secure Lebanon. ...

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=5217295&nav=menu188_2



U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reads a statement in Jerusalem July 31, 2006. Rice ended a peace mission to the Middle East on Monday and said she believed a ceasefire between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon could be forged this week.



Israeli strikes resume after brief lull

By THOMAS WAGNER and KATHY GANNON
1 hour, 3 minutes ago

Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, hours after agreeing to temporarily halt raids while investigating a bombing that killed nearly 60 Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children seeking shelter.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to a 48-hour halt in the airstrikes beginning at 2 a.m. Monday while the military concludes its inquiry into the attack on the south Lebanese village of Qana.

But Israel left open the option it might hit targets to stop imminent attacks or if the military completed its inquiry within 48 hours.

Monday's airstrikes near the village of Taibe were meant to protect ground forces operating in the area and were not targeting anyone or anything specific, the army said.

In a second airstrike around the port city of Tyre, Israel accidentally killed a Lebanese soldier when it hit a car that it believed was carrying a senior Hezbollah official, the Israeli army said. Lebanese security officials said the soldier was killed by a rocket strike from a drone aircraft.

The Israeli army justified the action, saying the leader believed to have been in the car was a threat to Israel. Instead, the car was carrying a Lebanese army officer and soldiers. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060731/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel;_ylt=Apj08ii31ExOjjfE2RN08wms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[sallyseven]

1. Bolton must be having fits.

So must the conservatives. They are not fond of her. She is after all a woman.

[bemildred]

2. Well, at least she knows who she is dealing with now.

Should be a good fight.
:popcorn::popcorn:

[gratuitous]

3. The Secretary of Stinkeye was embarrassed and mortified?

Well, I guess that's still better than being blasted to smithereens without warning in the middle of the night. And how does Dr. Rice propose the UN solve this? Our ambassador there seems stuck on vetoing every proposal that calls both sides to account for their actions.

This incompetent administration is floating an entire fleet of trial balloons until it finds one that garners a modicum of popular support. They'll fix on that one, and once again the media will praise the corrupt Bush administration's steely resolve and independence -- once they've figured out which of about half a dozen ideas was the most palatable (or least objectionable) in its polls.

[snowbear]

4. Loved how Tom Friedman bashed the job she & Bush have done on MTP..

..yesterday.

Very good job!!



Transcript - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14028605/ (Starts halfway down page 5)

--snip--
Let’s have a rational, long-term dialogue,” not one of these Condi Rice specials of, you know, 20 minutes in the Middle East, “I touched the base and went back,” but a serious, rational dialogue.

--snip--
And so when we go from a country that, historically, has always exported hope to a country that always exports fear, what we do, and what this administration has done, is actually stolen something from people. Whether it’s an African or a European or an Arab or Israeli, it’s that idea of an optimistic America out there. People really need that idea, and the sort of dark nature of the Cheneys and the Bushes and the Rices, this, this sort of relentless pessimism about the world, this exporting of fear, not hope, has really left people feeling that the idea of America has been stolen from them.

And I would argue that that is the animating force behind so much of the animus directed at George Bush.

[gratuitous]

5. Tom must have been feeling a little under the weather yesterday

He'll be back to administration-supporting nostrums, backed by the apocryphal wisdom of foreign taxi drivers, in no time at all. How odd, though, that he would fix on the "dark nature" of the corrupt Bush administration, and actually name a few names. Maybe if he continues down this path, he'll actually get to the point where he can hold the administration accountable for its failures regardless of the dark natures of some of its principals.

[bumblebee1]

6. She needs Israel to undermine her credibility?

Sorry, Condi, your credibility was underminded the day you sign on with the Bush regime. Israel or any other nation doesn't have to do that. Yes, Condi. You're in the major leagues when it comes to foreign policy. However, you're acting like you're in Class A ball. International relations is called hardball, not softball.