Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up?

Dear Brigade,

"After intense negotiations with Britain and France, Secretary of
State Rice had persuaded the Security Council to agree on a
resolution calling for a cease-fire. But Olmert wanted more time to
kill Hamas. So,
here, in Olmert's words, is what happened next..."

Brigade, this is one of Pat's columns that must be sent across the
USA, to all on your lists. Also see our website and the video,
"Buchanan: Gaza Is An Israeli Concentration Camp."

For the Cause, Linda

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for all to read - http://www.buchanan.org - instead of emailing
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Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
January 16, 2009

As Israel entered the third week of its Gaza blitz, Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert regaled a crowd in Ashkelon with an astonishing tale.

He had, said Olmert, whistled up George Bush, interrupted him in
the middle of a speech and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to
vote for a U.N. resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as
told, said Olmert.

The crowd loved it. Here is the
background.

After intense negotiations with Britain and France, Secretary of
State Rice had persuaded the Security Council to agree on a
resolution calling for a cease-fire. But Olmert wanted more time to
kill Hamas.

So, here, in Olmert's words, is what happened next.

"In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of
state wanted to lead the vote on a cease-fire at the Security
Council, we did not want her to vote in favor.

"I said, 'Get me President Bush on the phone.' They said he was in
the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't
care. 'I need to talk to him now.' He got off the podium and spoke
to me.

According to Olmert, Bush was clueless.

"He said: 'Listen. I don't know about it. I didn't see it.
I'm not
familiar with the phrasing."

"I told him the United States could not vote in favor. It cannot
vote in favor of such a resolution.
He immediately called the
secretary of state and told her not to vote in favor. ...

"She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged,
and in the end she did not vote in favor."

The U.N. diplomatic corps was astonished when the United States
abstained on the 14-0 resolution Rice had crafted and claimed her
country supported. Arab diplomats say Rice promised them she would
vote for it.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, with Rice at the United
Nations during the debate on the resolution, said Olmert's remarks
were "just 100 percent, totally, completely untrue."

But the White House cut Rice off at the knees, saying only that
there were "inaccuracies" in the Olmert story. The video does not
show Bush interrupting his speech to take any call.

Yet, the substance rings true and is widely believed, and Olmert is
happily describing the egg on Rice's face:

"He (Bush)
gave an order to the secretary of state, and she did not
vote in favor of it -- a resolution she cooked up, phrased,
organized and maneuvered for. She was left pretty shamed. ..."

With Bush and Rice leaving office in hours, and Olmert in weeks,
the story may seem to lack significance.

Yet, public gloating by an Israeli prime minister that he can order
a U.S. president off a podium and instruct him to reverse and
humiliate his secretary of state may cause even Ehud's poodle to
rise up on its hind legs one day and bite its master.

Taking such liberties with a superpower that, for Israel's benefit,
has shoveled out $150 billion and subordinated its own interests in
the Arab and Islamic world would seem a hubristic and stupid thing
to do.

And there are straws in the wind that, despite congressional
resolutions giving full-throated approval to all that Israel is
doing in Gaza, this is becoming a
troubled relationship.

Two weeks ago, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in opposing any truce,
assured the world there "is no humanitarian crisis in the (Gaza)
Strip," and the humanitarian situation there "is completely as it
should be."

Not so to Hillary Clinton. In her confirmation hearings, the
secretary of state-designate, reports The New York Times, "struck a
sharper tone toward Israel on violence in the Middle East."

Clinton "seemed to part from the tone set by the Bush
administration in calling attention to what she described as the
'tragic humanitarian costs' borne by Palestinians, as well as
Israelis."

More dramatic was a weekend report by the Times' David Sanger that
the White House had rebuffed Olmert's request for new U.S.
bunker-buster bombs and denied Israel permission to overfly Iraq in
any strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz.

Sanger described these
U.S.-Israeli talks as "tense."

Repeatedly, Israel has warned that Iran is close to a bomb and
threatened to attack unilaterally. Indeed, Israel simulated such an
attack in an air exercise of 100 planes that went as far as Greece.

Bush both blocked and vetoed that attack, says Sanger. But he did
assure Olmert that America is engaged in the sabotage of Iran's
nuclear program by helping provide Tehran with defective parts.

This would seem a stunning breach of security secrets, but no
outrage has been heard from the White House, nor has any charge
come that the Times compromised national security.

With Olmert, Rice and Bush departing, and Obama and Hillary taking
charge committed to talking to Iran, can the old intimacy survive
the new friction and colliding agendas?

SOURCE:
http://buchanan.org/blog/2009/01/pjb-is-ehuds-poodle-acting-up/


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