tail wags Security Council

by on January 12, 2009 7

Olmert says he told Bush not to suppport U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution. And that Bush then called Condi Rice and told her the U.S. couldn't vote for it. She was upset because she'd co-written the thing. But the U.S. abstained, with 14 votes in favor. Moral nullification.

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  1. Nards says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    Openly gloating and calling our President his bitch. I could strangle that bastard.

    I'm ashamed for my country. We're pathetic. Some irrelevant dusty dirtball of a country on the side of the world tells us to bend over for them, and we do it every time. And then send them another $3 billion.

    This "special relationship" is so f**ked, it starts to defy description.

  2. marc b. says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:47 pm

    With all due respect to the considerable influence of Israel on American politics, this has the smell of that nitwit Olmert playing a bit of the hyperbolic.

  3. Eva Smagacz says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    It took Agence France Presse to report it.

  4. Dagon says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Anti-semite is a person the zionazis hate.A holocaust denier is a zionasi who murders real semites.

  5. Nards says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Honestly, I'd beat the crap out of that little turd if he were standing here right now.

    He's over there flexing the military muscle that we grant him, and then throws it in OUR faces.

    What a bucket of s**t that whole country is.

  6. marc b. says:
    January 12, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    This excerpt from a JPost article of today is a more likely explanation for Olmert's bloviating than the implied reading of the riot act to Bush and Rice quoted in the AFP.

    "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and senior officials in the Foreign Ministry rallied around Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Sunday, deflecting criticism that she failed in her job by not stopping the passage Thursday of the UN Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
    Likud and Labor officials had said earlier Sunday the fact the UN vote had passed without the American veto that has become customary for resolutions seen as harming Israel would be campaign fodder against Kadima's prime ministerial candidate.

    Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Olmert defended Livni, saying that she had warned from the beginning of the likelihood of a UN resolution, and that were it not for her efforts and the efforts of the Foreign Ministry, a more critical resolution would have been passed much sooner."

    The article continues with BN posturing for Likud.

    Etc. Etc.

  7. Colin Murray says:
    January 13, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    LOL, if that's all she's upset or embarrassed about … LOL

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