"You can see the strain on Sec. Rice's face there" says John King on CNN

[partylessinOhio]

after a tape was played of her statement early this morning.

I woke up through the night and just caught the end of Condoho's last one or two questions. She did seem to be showing very serious signs of the strain of the pressure she is under. She was stumbling over some of her words, having to correct herself. She even in desperation was referring to something said by "Andrea" which I took her to mean Andrea Mitchell.

Did anyone see her entire press appearance?

Did Israel stage this horrific attack below to end the talks? (54 deaths, 37 were children, who had taken refuse in this building which Israel bombed!) CNN is showing some of the carnage but admits it is too terrible to show. They should show it, we have the ability to turn off TV if we wish.

Rice postpones trip to Beirut after attack

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday she is "deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life" from Israel's attack on a Lebanese village, but she held firm to the internationally unpopular position that a quick cease-fire won't solve the crisis.

Stymieing Rice's diplomatic mission, Israel's early morning missile strike sparked protests in Beirut and forced Rice to cancel an expected visit Sunday with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora. She planned to remain in Jerusalem instead, where she said she had work to do to end the fighting.

"We are also pushing for an urgent end to the current hostilities, but the views of the parties on how to achieve this are different," she said.

Israeli missiles hit several homes in the southern Lebanese village of Qana early Sunday. Some 50 people died, according to initial reports. At least 20 bodies wrapped in white sheets were taken away, including children and elderly residents who were attacked while they were sleeping.

Rice reiterated U.S. concerns about the loss of civilian life in the fighting. Hundreds, mostly Lebanese civilians, have died in the three weeks since Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a raid into Israel. The action provoked Israel's largest military campaign against Lebanon in 24 years.

"We all recognize this kind of warfare is extremely difficult," said Rice, noting it comes in areas where civilians live. "It unfortunately has awful consequences sometimes."

"We want a cease-fire as soon as possible," said Rice, during one of her strongest statements yet on the need to end the conflict. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rice

[Punkingal]

1. She should be feeling the strain...

War-mongering sleaze that she is. And this line tops my list of stupid statements from her mouth:

"We all recognize this kind of warfare is extremely difficult," said Rice, noting it comes in areas where civilians live. "It unfortunately has awful consequences sometimes."

What "kind" of warfare is not extremely difficult? What "kind" of warfare doesn't have awful consequences? I guess all the Iraquis who die daily aren't an awful consequence, nor all the soldiers we have who have died, or the thousands who have lost their limbs, or the thousands who will have PTSD for the rest of their lives. All these Bush people just show their callousness every time they open their mouths, and she is one of the worst. I despise her.

[partylessinOhio]

5. Thank you for your truthful assessment of this thing that is posing as a

woman. She is a disgrace to all of us women.

Yes, it must be "extremely difficult" for innocent people to die. But they have had no choice now for NINETEEN DAYS while this person has danced and played at a recital.

[HereSince1628]

2. Condi's just got birth pangs, lack of sleep. Her bubble's not burst

She still supports this modern version of the Nazi solution to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising: Trap them. Kill Them.

And I'm not the only one to see the similarity. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/742707.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Video from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68004c398/nb/09012da68004c63f_16x9_nb.asx

[AussieDave]

4. That's not strain - that's constipation

Seriously, she's completely out of her depth and she knows it. Neither she nor anyone else in that good-for-nothing Administration has any idea of what they're doing - they're just waiting for January 20, 2009 to get here so they can dump the whole bag of shit in the next guy's lap.

[MrTriumph]

6. Condi's bonehead statement

"We all recognize this kind of warfare is extremely difficult," said Rice, noting it comes in areas where civilians live. "It unfortunately has awful consequences sometimes."

Warfare always has "awful consequences" for someone. Maybe she is thinking of economic benefits for Republican companies like Blackwater and Halliburton.

[Divernan]

7. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind; as ye sow, so shall ye reap.

A couple of Biblical quotations for Condi to reflect upon. She's controlled Bush's mideast policies for this term and had a lot of destructive input on the decision to invade Iraq in the first term. WHEN is she going to start learning something and change her approach! ? ! ?

I loathe her even more than I loathe Bush. He is being true to his family's greedy, war-profiteering, family heritage. Condoleeza, on the other hand, is a black woman who has stated that she never experienced racial discrimination. This may be true, with her sheltered upbringing with piano lessons and figure skating lessons. But I doubt it. I know some upper middle class black women judges, and they are well aware of racial discrimination, whether directed at them or at poor and less educated minorities. And she has stuck with the neocons for her own personal aggrandizement, regardless of how much harm the neocon agenda has done to the majority of blacks and other minorities in this country. If she wasn't shamed by Bush's hostile neglect of New Orleans, and thereby motivated to speak up about it, than it is impossible to shame her. And if she was able to blind herself to the realities of racial prejudice while growing up in the South; then she may well keep her hands firmly over her eyes to avoid the realities of her disastrous foreign policies - hence the classic picture of her with her eyes closed and her hand pressed to her forehead at a recent conference.

On edit: to southerners - don't flame me for the comment about racial prejudice in the South. I grew up (until age 9) in the South - then moved to "Chicagoland". There was lots of prejudice to go around in both areas - but it was more formalized and visible in the South, with the "whites only" signs on things like swimming pools.

[madrchsod]

8. saniora told her to not to step foot in lebanon

until bush called for an immediate ceasefire.to bad kate can`t print the truth.

[Joanne98]

9. She's GRINNING in all the pictures I'm seeing.

It's an outrage too. Does she think there's something funny about dead children?

[soothsayer]

13. Exactly what I noticed!

[City Lights]

14. Just like her husb...er...Dear Leader.

They both get off on death. Major sickos.

[Joe Bacon]

10. Minnie Mouse is the most incompetent Secretary of State of all time

She's even more incompetent and inept than Powell.

[Shipwack]

11. There seems to be a bit of spin going on...

Some news outlets (Washington Post, for instance) state that she canceled her trip because of the Israeli bombings. Others, such as Euronews, are saying that she was specifically told not to come by Lebanon as long as she does does not support a cease-fire....

"Diplomatic efforts to end fighting between Hizbollah and Israel appear to have sunk to a new low. Lebanon says the US Secretary of State is not welcome now until a ceasefire is called. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora : "There is no place on this sad morning for any discussion other than an immediate and unconditional ceasefire as well as an international investigation into the Israeli massacres in Lebanon."

[partylessinOhio]

12. There must be a ceasefire to end the killing and terrorism by Israel.

Israel has gone too far, beyond any reason and they must be forced to stop it.

The SOS has been called to task for her hands off Israel policy. She should be hanging her head in shame but she has no shame.

When she called the President of the United States (selected but he no less is occupying the office) "my husband" she crossed a line that was never crossed before.

[xkenx]

15. Condi should go shopping for shoes at Ferragamo

to relieve her stress, as she did right after Katrina struck New Orleans.