Rice wants Mideast to isolate new Palestinian government

[lovuian]

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is heading to the Middle East to try to help block financial aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

The Jerusalem Post said the United States wants to strengthen the international front against Hamas and close possible loopholes to keeping international money from the group.

"I would hope that any state that is considering funding Hamas, a Hamas-led government, would think about the implications of that for the Middle East," Rice said last week to a group of Arab journalists in Washington.

The United States has said funds related to humanitarian aid projects should continue, the newspaper said.
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hamas winning the election is turning into a severe crisis for Rice and Israel...

[LynnTheDem]

1. Problem is, ME, as with most the world, don't give a f*ck what rice wants.

Nor do I. :)

[babylonsister]

2. First they demand democratic elections, now they can't

handle the results? Boy, are they ever in a pickle!
Seems the * admin needs to buy a clue about diplomacy instead of making an end-run around Hamas.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. "we support Democracy, unless you don't vote like we tell you to."

Get lost, you ignorant slut, you incompetent leather-wearing Imelda-clone. You have created more trouble for this country than almost anyone else. Only Cheney, Rummie and their clones and drones exceed your inability to do their jobs professionally.

Condi - the worst NSC chair and the worst SecState ever.

[MrPrax]

4. Screw You, Idiot n/t

[Botany]

5. Whatever Condi .....

So who in the mideast is going to listen to you? BTW didn't the neo cons (PNAC) promise
after the liberation of Iraq (where we were going to welcomed as heros) that democracy was going
to spread like wildfire throughout the mideast?

[aden_nak]

6. Bush forgot that his hatchetmen don't fix the elections in other nations.

Yet.

[movonne]

7. Where is Karen Hughes when you need her...I thought this was her

job..winning hearts and minds of the middle east..

[NJmaverick]

8. I want a million dollars

I imagine I have a better chance at getting that, than Condi has of getting what she wants.

[AlamoDemoc]

9. One word Ms. Rice...doublestandard

[spindrifter]

10. Another way for the U.S. to lose face

in the international arena.

[rpannier]

11. They need to isolate her

to an island somewhere

[leesa]

12. She's just gonna wear herself out threatening folks! Crack that whip,

Honey!

[bullimiami]

13. hey little democracy. FUCK YOU.

[Malva Zebrina]

14. Yeah condi--wear them stilletto boots and flash those thighs

and wear your ugly serious face while repeating what was given to you to repeat.

You are being placated and laughed at behind your back.

You have no power and it is becauase you have no independant ideas or any solutions other than to wag your finger at the nations who hate the US and declare they simply MUST, they simply MUST change their evil ways, because I, Condi the trendy shoe shopping Bush whore like SOS, says so.


Damn, she says as she stomps her leather, high heeled boots--they are laughing at me and I know it. Stop it!

Oh well, I will get on with the job--after it is over, I can retire, write a book, become a talk show guest for a long time and promote the idea that I knew what I was doing, even though I was following orders and had no ideas of my own.

[savemefromdumbya]

15. Condi, that's not how it works!

Ms Condi you have spent too much of our taxpayers' money pissing around with the middle east.

[Terran1212]

16. Khalizad has also threatened the new Iraqi Government

Against making ties with Iran.

[cliss]

17. More proof that she has no idea

what she is doing. There is an old saying, and it's appropriate here: "Choose your battles". Rice seems to think she can take on the entire world. There is no problem or crisis too small for her to tackle. She'll proclaim loudly her displeasure, and they'd better get with the program to suit her taste.

It's amazing: she has a huge agenda on her Shit List. The problem is, if you're not selective about your demands, the world will turn a deaf ear to all of it. And that's exactly what's happening. Also, it seems to me like like the threat level is going up. Does anybody else sense that? Like the ante is being upped every day.....

....while the rest of the world watches her and yawns.....ZZZZ.....ZZZ...snore...

[AlamoDemoc]

20. I think the entire world

is now seeing the thinking of the United States' policies...where before is was covered by the cold war mentality that many countries had gone along with it that the US policies was good in order defeat the evil USSR. However, we are now seeing how the US conducts its foreign policy in the middle east and south America. The dissent you hear from every corner around the world is that of suspicion and doublestandard...not to mention manipulation and hegemony.

[Demeter]

18. Oh, Condi--What Goes Around, Comes Around!

What a crowning achievement for BushCo cronies if you all manage to get the US blockaded, blacklisted, and totally defunded BY THE REST OF THE WORLD for your wrong-headed policies.

Shouldn't take much longer, either, at the rate you idiots screw things up.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

19. DEAREST Condi, shut your fucking pie hole.

Love. B_E_B.

[MasonJar]

21. First Condi tells South America not to let Chavez help them, and

today the government warned the Iraqis that they would lose US support if it had a Shite/Kurd guv and now it is the duly elected government in Palestine. Shut up, Condi!

[951-Riverside]

22. Everyday she says something irritating and stupid

I hate HER!

[VegasWolf]

23. Why do the neocon's even let this woman speak? nt

[onehandle]

24. Rice wastes the world's time while waiting for her payoff.

Where's your namesake, you corrupt w****!?

[Odin2005]

25. The neocons hated the palestinian elections...

...because according to neo-con dogma, most people want a western democracy, admiting that a middle-eastern country would want an islamist democracy is sacralige to them.

[0007]

26. Nothing like fueling the hatred for the U.S.

[cantstandbush]

27. I guess we don't like the democracy we spread.

Hell, we don't even like the one we have.

[UCLA Dem]

28. Guess the bushies don't like democracy so much afterall.

[Matilda]

29. What a patronising statement of neo-colonial bullshit.

I would guess that a majority of people world-wide consider the Bush Administration to be one of
the worst terrorist groups in the world. And a great many of those people would consider Bush's
election in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 were fraudulent. But nobody is suggesting sanctions
of any kind aimed at removing Bush from power. That's up to the American people, and we respect
your right to deal with him as you see fit. So why is that right denied to the Palestinians?

What's the difference between funding Hamas and funding the Iraqi government in terms of Middle
East peace?

[shance]

30. More death and genocide for the Palestinians.

Time to wake up folks.

The Palestinians are being genocided just like the Native Americans were here in the states.

Enough of White Supremecy and Racism and Hatred.

Haven't we seen enough?