Condoleeza Ready To Talk With Iran & Syria To Help Stabilize Iraq

[Wyatt_Junker]

I assume she's merely showing Baker publicly the kind of fool he actually proclaims to be. I think I can almost see her smile forming as she holds the reverent ISG, holy grail of libs.

So, really, its more like a skit. She knows it. America knows it. Baker apparently doesn't, nor does Baker know why everyone is laughing at him.

So, here's to Baker's recommendation of talkety talk talk talkie...

<TABLE style="DIRECTION: ltr" width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Rice Ready for Iran Dialogue Within Nuclear Talks

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>By David Gollust
Washington
09 December 2006
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she is ready for wide-ranging dialogue with her Iranian counterpart provided Iran halts uranium enrichment and returns to negotiations on its nuclear program. Rice was responding to calls this week by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group for the United States to engage Iran and Syria to help stabilize Iraq. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.


Linkage (http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-12-09-voa1.cfm)

[Wyatt_Junker]

Iran offers to help U.S. exit from Iraq
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<FORM class=yqin action=http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search method=post>"If the United States changes its attitude, the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to help with the withdrawal from Iraq," Mottaki told the International Institute of Strategic Studies conference here. "Fifty percent of the problem of insecurity in Iraq is the presence of foreign troops."

50% of the problem is foreign troops. >Iranian.< Thanks, there, uh... Mottaki! Oh yeah, and the astute Baker team too.

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us)


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[Wyatt_Junker]

The key destabilizing event in the Middle East was Jimmy Carter's failure to understand and respond to the threat posed by the Islamic Revolution. The principal mistake of the Sunni counter-revolution both internationally and within Iraq was to directly attack the United States, leading to their catastrophic battlefield defeat both internationally and within Iraq -- a defeat the MSM is seemingly blind to, but which has had profound consequences -- and effectively ceded the field to their undamaged foes of the Islamic Revolution. And perhaps the major error of the United States after September 11 was to war against al-Qaeda in isolation, without seeing it as part of the broader Islamic fundamentalist challenge to the West. In disempowering the Sunni terrorist foe by defeating it, America empowered its rival. The score is now Osama:-2, US:0, Ahmedinajad:1. Though alone of the actors the United States possesses the military and economic overmatch, the one nation that can cut the Gordian knot, if it for a moment had Alexander's daring, this advantage is negated by its own civil war, one that is renewed every fourth year at the Presidential level and every second at the legislative, unable to answer the one key question on which the fate of the 21st century turns: what are America's goals and is it prepared to attain them?

link (http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/12/spirit-of-79.html)

[Beowulf]

And to think that at one point peeps were considering her for POTUS.

[Kathy30]

I can't believe it. A woman sent to "talk" to a group of men who believe that women occupy a place less than scorpions and no doubt our politicians will expect her to be taken seriously. It would not surprise me if she was kidnapped and her body parts show up on a side road.

[BarkleUSA]

Nothing less then another 9-11 (or worse) will significantly change the west’s appeasement mentality toward Islamofascism.

Consider had the recent attempt to bring down several airliners over the Atlantic succeeded I doubt the Democrats would have swept to power in the House and Senate or that the Iraq study group would be recommending diplomacy with Iran and Syria.

I hate to say it, but it will require more then one 9-11 to finally wake the sleeping giant and fill his heart with rage.

[Beowulf]

Nothing less then another 9-11 (or worse) will significantly change the west’s appeasement mentality toward Islamofascism.

Consider had the recent attempt to bring down several airliners over the Atlantic succeeded I doubt the Democrats would have swept to power in the House and Senate or that the Iraq study group would be recommending diplomacy with Iran and Syria.

I hate to say it, but it will require more then one 9-11 to finally wake the sleeping giant and fill his heart with rage.

True, but if it does happen they'll blame Bush long after he's out of office for his foreign policy in dealing with the Middle East and Washington will further surrender to Islam. Well, the government will surrender but I won't!

[Naturalized-Texan]

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she is ready for wide-ranging dialogue with her Iranian counterpart provided Iran halts uranium enrichment and returns to negotiations on its nuclear program.
In other words, Secretary Rice is saying that we will never sit down and talk with Iran. Iran will never halt uranium enrichment and return to negotiations on its nuclear program

[Patrick Henry]

FOX was saying today that she wasn't going talk with either Syria or Iran, what gives?

So, wouldn't such talks be akin to 'engaging' Hitler in 'talks' about how to resolve the problem with the large numbers of Nazis stomping around Poland in 1939?

What kind of assinine logic is that?

[Lubbock]

Okay, the true and original headline of the article is this:

Rice Ready for Iran Dialogue Within Nuclear Talks

NOT Condoleeza Ready To Talk With Iran & Syria To Help Stabilize Iraq

How about some of you folks in a position of power at this site make a rule --or enforce one if it exists, that from this moment forward, anything posted here from a news source MUST be posted by the true title --not something made up out of whole-cloth.

That rule would go a long way to stop double posts of the same article, and further, if a poster is going to make up his own "Title" to what he reads, thus putting his own connotation on what he reads, how different is that than what the New York Times does when it prints anything concerning GWB and the WoT?

[HooverWasRight]

50% of the problem is foreign troops. >Iranian.< Thanks, there, uh... Mottaki! Oh yeah, and the astute Baker team too.

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us)


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the other 50% is the fault of the United states. Whether in Mogidishu, Iraq or now Iran getting involved with these ragtags is lunacy.
If we were energy self efficient we could just sit back and let the mulahs destroy each other.

With GWB's sagging poll numbers down to 27%, I wonder if he'll wanna. bomb iran

[Patrick Henry]

the other 50% is the fault of the United states. Whether in Mogidishu, Iraq or now Iran getting involved with these ragtags is lunacy.
If we were energy self efficient we could just sit back and let the mulahs destroy each other.

With GWB's sagging poll numbers down to 27%, I wonder if he'll wanna. bomb iran

Feel free to spell out your energy plan - socialism not an alternative.

27%? So, why wouldn't he in that case?