CONDI'S L-O-B-O-T-O-M-Y

Yesterday was the deadliest day of the war for Israeli troops in Lebanon, with 15 soldiers killed, the Associated Press reported.

.... the highest one-day total in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. The military said 38 soldiers were wounded in battles across south Lebanon.

Abu Dana (Olmert) slow on the uptake readies the much needed ground offensive and Condi implores him to stop? Is she out of her mind? I understand the role of diplo-speak in the geo-political chess game but Israel is ifighting for its life and Condi is playing patty cake? That is just so failed Clinton admininstration policy.

All this talk, for years, about the GWoT.  Hey lady, this is the front line on the global war on terror.

With Israeli tank divisions and soldiers amassing along the border with Lebanon, America's top diplomat yesterday tried to persuade Prime Minister Olmert to call off an expanded ground invasion.

Secretary of State Rice made two phone calls to Mr. Olmert, according to the State Department. Israeli television reported that for one of the calls, Mr. Olmert was taken out of a Security Cabinet meeting on the expanded offensive. Two Bush administration officials told The New York Sun last night that Ms. Rice intended to get guarantees from the Israeli premier to call off the larger invasion as she prepared to go to New York and salvage a U.N. cease-fire resolution that now appears to be scuttled.

And then we have State Department spokesman Sean McCormack who rarely comments on Israel's military operations, repeating, "We have, in the past, very strongly counseled, both in public and private, that the Israeli government needs to take the utmost care to avoid any loss of innocent life."

Huh? Israel has suffered thousands (3,333 ) rocket attacks directed, targeting only the citizens of Israel and McCormack makes a dhimmi statement like that? No other country takes such extraordinary measures to protect civilian life, putting their own people in harms way, to minimize the risk to the civilian human shields and McCormack spews bile like that? Nidra Poller wrote yesterday about those "innocent civilians" here and I could not have said it better.

I, for one, do not understand this insane pursuit to cobble together a ceasefire. To what end? The Iranian Foreign Legion, Hezb'Allah has vowed to wipe out the Jews, to destroy Israel, why give them a hudna? Why give them an opportunity to rearm, repair, re-juice? It is the quintessential act of submission to Islam.

An Israeli TV station, quoting unidentified sources, said Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers were among the Hezbollah dead

Atlas readers knew back on July 23rd, that dead Iranian revolutionary Guard soldiers were being flown back to Iran.........

Didn't America learn her lesson when we had the opportunity to take out Al Sadr, another member of the Iranian Foreign legion (and tight as thieves with Nasrallah) and didn't? We've been paying every since.

A Likud member of the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee who has supported a larger invasion, Yuval Steinitz, said he was not privy to the details of the conversation between Ms. Rice and Mr. Olmert. "I don't know what she is saying, but this decision is up to Israel. We have to decide how to defend Galilee and Haifa," he said.

Damn Right. Loved the Likud. It should have been Bibi. I said it then, I'll say it now, I never understood that election.

UPDATE: This is a disaster.

Israel Puts Ground Offensive on Hold to Give Diplomacy More Time - Ravi Nessman
Israel has put its massive new ground offensive into southern Lebanon on hold to give the UN Security Council more time to come to an agreement on a cease-fire, senior Israeli officials said Thursday. Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday approved an expanded ground offensive in Lebanon. (AP/Houston Chronicle)
    See also U.S. Pressure Prompts Delay of IDF Offensive

Comments

[John D. Infidel]

Condi, say it ain't so!

Don't fear Pamela, odds are the cease-fire resolution with not be ratified and the U.S. with throw-up its hands and say "oh well, we tried" and give Israel a wink and a nod with a big shit eatin' grin!

John D. Infidel

[John D. Infidel]

Condi, say it ain't so!

Don't fear Pamela, odds are the cease-fire resolution will t be ratified and the U.S. with throw-up its hands and say "oh well, we tried" and give Israel a wink and a nod with a big shit eatin' grin!

John D. Infidel

[BritinUSA]

Hezbollah is using this war as a recruitment aid. They want as many civilian casualties as possible. Once an International Army is in place to enforce 1559 then the recruitment campagin will end. The buffer zone between Lebanon and Israel must be populated by a standing army before Israel should agree to withdraw.
The sooner that happens the better it will be for Israel, but they should not have a cease-fire or withdraw until 1559 is enforced.

[Westerner]

Nothing is on hold. Fear not. This is a clever little deal that makes Hezbollah look bad and Israel look good. PR, ya know. Israel has been concerned about the world PR to some degree and now they're coming off as being completely reasonable at the same time the terrorists are demonstrating how totally unreasonable they are. It's a victory for Israel.

The other half of this is that they are still moving in tanks and spreading out. They just aren't advancing forward beyond their present position. This is good strategy as the terrorists are well dug in and need to be rooted out. This takes time. Rather than run forward and take heavy casualties, the Israelis are cleaning up the large area they already occupy and consolidating their position. When they get ready to move forward again, they won't be leaving a bunch of hidden enemy in their rear to jump out, launch rockets and make them look bad.
They know what they're doing. Wait and see.

Rastaman
www.islamanazi.com

[Thomas Carney]

Rice has gone native, unfortunately. The State Department's leadership, most unfortunately, is filled with holdovers from the Clinton Administration.

I had enough dealings with the State Department in the early 1980s to disgust even a serene monk.

We need a State Department (as it exists now) about a tad more than we need the UN.

[scooternyc]

You're starting to appear like the leftwingnuts who are unhinged. I can't understand your constant berrage of indictments to Ms.Rice when she, President Bush and John Bolton are handling this situation beautifully.

You cannot move this process any faster without screwing it up. When all aspects of negotiating, compromise and talk has been exhausted it then continues to set the stage for Israel and the U.S., ALONG with allies to take action strongly against Iran, N.Korea, Syria and of course, Hezbollah.

You run the risk of getting over-emotional and over-reacting to the situation instead of trusting what the administration is doing. If you trust President Bush then you need to step back, take a deep breath and try to watch it unfold, stop jumping to conclusions and getting so emotionally involved you can't see clearly the ACTIONS that are being displayed.

It concerns me that those on the right start looking like those on the far left when they get out of control and start screaming, "the sky is falling".

OBSERVATION - the most powerful skill you can have in life.

The Administration and Bolton at the U.N. create an opportunity at every turn for Iran, Syria, Lebanon, et.al. to give them enough rope to hang themselves - you have to let this process happen, otherwise we look like we're cowboys ridin in to shoot, rape and kill and obviously that's NOT what we're about.

[scooternyc]

You're starting to appear like the leftwingnuts who are unhinged. I can't understand your constant berrage of indictments to Ms.Rice when she, President Bush and John Bolton are handling this situation beautifully.

You cannot move this process any faster without screwing it up. When all aspects of negotiating, compromise and talk has been exhausted it then continues to set the stage for Israel and the U.S., ALONG with allies to take action strongly against Iran, N.Korea, Syria and of course, Hezbollah.

You run the risk of getting over-emotional and over-reacting to the situation instead of trusting what the administration is doing. If you trust President Bush then you need to step back, take a deep breath and try to watch it unfold, stop jumping to conclusions and getting so emotionally involved you can't see clearly the ACTIONS that are being displayed.

It concerns me that those on the right start looking like those on the far left when they get out of control and start screaming, "the sky is falling".

OBSERVATION - the most powerful skill you can have in life.

The Administration and Bolton at the U.N. create an opportunity at every turn for Iran, Syria, Lebanon, et.al. to give them enough rope to hang themselves - you have to let this process happen, otherwise we look like we're cowboys ridin in to shoot, rape and kill and obviously that's NOT what we're about.

[Pete]

I sure hope you're right, scooternyc. I sure hope it's all a shrewd gambit with Iran in line for checkmate.

But for now, excuse me while I get really depressed.

[scooternyc]

No, no, no, no Pete, don't get depressed! Not yet! :) It's just taking time to work itself out.

It occurred to me recently that I think with the first Iraq war, which took, like 20 days or some short time frame; then the Afghanistan war which took a couple of weeks; then the fall of Baghdad was within about 3-4 weeks that the American public, probably the world at large, grow very impatient when it comes to war tactics now.

I can understand that given our advanced technology that it should go faster, but most wars, at least those worth fighting, take time. Additionally, we've always been concerned about innocent civilians being casualties, but we seem even more focused on trying to have more precision when it comes to dropping bombs, etc. rather than the indiscriminent method of before.

On SkyNews' website today I saw a headline that read, "Solidarity, the key to beating terror." It's true. Without a united front I'm not sure how we will ever fully eradicate it but I'm trusting the testicular fortitude of the Bush Administration to forge on and do their best. Let's face it, Condi said it the other day on The Situation Room, the previous Foreign Policies have been failed policies for over 60 years, what the current administration is doing is a whole new paradigm that, like anything worthwhile, will take some time to shift, change and assimilate, but we MUST BE UNITED IN THIS EFFORT.

Unlike the Democraps, President Bush, in a way, is telling the American people, "Fight. Fight for your freedom. Fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Fight for our historical freedoms." Unlike the democraps who want us to tuck our tails and head for the hills. If our troops can do it, we can do it here at home - we've gotta "rage against that MSM machine"!

Trust the right people are doing the right things. Get out and vote! Don't let the Democraps take over or we'll be in major danger come November.