Ceaseless Condi

There will be no call for a cease fire by the U.S. Condi Rice's trip to the Middle East is a shameless disgusting PR Op. She'll spout pro-Israeli (defending itself) rhetoric. The invasion/killing will continue. More people, men women and children who are not terrorists, will die. The destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure, the creation of refugees, will go on without mercy. The war hawks are ramping up the fever with Condi cheerleading for the Neocons. Syria wants to talk...the neothugs don't want that; they want to attack Iran. The longer this goes on, the closer they'll get to their objectives. Condi's job is to give the Bush administration's official blessings to Israeli warmongering. Mission accomplished. Condi heads to Middle East
Rice will further non-diplomacy, with absolutely no intention of urging a cessation to this pre-planned war. She's only going for "show" so the talking heads of the MSM can claim the Bush administration is engaged. (They love that word) Engaged in warmongering perhaps, nothing to assist the people of Lebanon who are being bombed by Israel.

Pic for aed. (Thanks for the suggestion)

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Rice’s Middle East tour: “Diplomacy” in furtherance of war
An article by David Horovitz in the Jerusalem Post provides additional evidence that the attack on Lebanon was pre-planned. It notes, “The battle plan the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] has been following for the past nine days was finalized four or five months ago, around the time the new [Kadima-led] government was taking shape.”

A report in the July 23 Haaretz, “Shifting Policy Gears/A New Agenda, a New Order,” by Aluf Benn, also notes: “Last weekend [Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert dispatched Mossad head Meir Dagan to Washington to confer with US officials about stopping the Iranian nuclear threat. After the battles in Lebanon end and some type of order is imposed in the north, Olmert will likely travel to the White House again to discuss the new agenda.”

Secretary of State Rice’s Middle East visit has been coordinated with Israel to provide diplomatic cover and political legitimacy to the Zionist state’s naked aggression and targeting of Lebanese civilians, and allow it to continue. After touching down in Jerusalem for discussions with Prime Minister Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Rice departs for Rome and Malaysia, only returning to Israel on July 30. Senior Israeli officials told Haaretz that the US has given its approval for Israel to continue military operations at least until then.

Rice aims to secure the agreement of the other major powers and the Arab bourgeois regimes on US-Israeli plans to reduce Lebanon to a de facto protectorate of Israel and isolate Syria and Iran.

Before Rice left, she and Bush, together with Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials, held discussions in Washington with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the chief of the Saudi National Security Council, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, and Saudi ambassador to Washington Prince Turki ibn Faisal. The kingdom, which has sided with the US in blaming the current conflict on Hezbollah, is being lined up to back future attacks on Syria and Iran.

In Rome, Rice will meet with members of the “Lebanon Core Group,” which includes Britain, France, Italy, the European Union, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Nations, the World Bank and the Lebanese government, led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. Egypt and Jordan have, like Saudi Arabia, made clear that they are ready to comply with Washington’s Mideast policy.

Rice has no intention of even speaking to Syria, despite the threats of military action that have been levelled at it every day. When the US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was interviewed on Fox News yesterday, he was asked to comment on Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad’s statement that morning. Meqdad declared, “Syria is ready for dialogue with the United States based on respect and mutual interest.”
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