Rice taps Clinton, Carter for Middle East advice

[Olney Blue]

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2619674120071026

By Sue Pleming


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.


Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday.


Their talks were "good and cordial," he said. They focused on the Middle East and not Carter's recent criticism of President George W. Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere.

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Rice has made clear she will devote all her energy in the Bush administration's final 14 months to get what others have failed to attain in the past -- a viable, independent Palestinian state living side by side with a secure Israel.

[angstlessk]

1. Whzat a load of crap...they had 7 years and now they have 14 months

and she will achieve what both Clinton and Carter failed to achieve in 12 years??? by asking them WHAT THEY DID WRONG? do I have that in a nutshell or what??? :shrug:

[Olney Blue]

4. Yes, and she's been reading library books to get the answer too.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Wait! Let me catch my breath?

:rofl: :crazy: :rofl:

What a crock! :P

[havocmom]

3. Then, when she fails, she can blame Bill & Jimmy?

Tell her to bugger off.

[madokie]

7. thats the deal, someone she can blame her failure on, cause it is going to be a failure

there not an ounce of diplomacy in all of her, shoes and all

[spanone]

5. they are all in legacy mode....that is all. seven years and not a stich of progress

[nightrider767]

6. Bush wants one accomplishment on his record

But the Palestinians and the Israeli's won't give him that.

[Mountainman]

8. I hope she succeeds. I'll praise her for if she can pull it off.

[liberal N proud]

9. After she and bu$h destroy everything they did

Now she thinks they can fix her fuckups.

[Adsos Letter]

10. Now Rice is "tapping"...?!

...sorry...On a more serious note, I wish I could listen in on THOSE conversations...