Cheney, Rice Exchange Blame on 2006 “Israeli” Defeat
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Former US president Dick Cheney's "In My Time" and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's upcoming "No Higher Honor" cover much of the same ground regarding 2006 "Israeli" aggression
on Lebanon, but blame each other for Failure.
Here's an excerpt from pages 490-491 of Rice's book. The scene: Bush and Rice are in Crawford, the rest of the National Security Council is beamed in via videoconference:
"I was stunned when the Vice President said in reply we shouldn't be seeking a [United Nations]
resolution.
"We need to let the "Israelis" finish the job," Cheney said.
The Vice President repeated his view that the war should continue. "Do that, and you are dead in the Middle East," I said to the President.
"Do that, and you are dead in the Middle East," I said to the President
For his part, Cheney admits in his book his strategy's failure:
"Hizbullah survived the war, and by the end of 2007 they, along with their ally Syria and their patron Iran, were ascendant in Lebanon," US Vice President stressed.
Blaming Rice unrealistic effort to solve "Israeli"-Palestinian conflict, Cheney claimed that his country "could have done much more to support the "democratic" aspirations of the people of Lebanon and thus helped to counter the growing regional prominence of Iran and Syria."
Source: Washington Post, Edited by moqawama.org
Former US president Dick Cheney's "In My Time" and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's upcoming "No Higher Honor" cover much of the same ground regarding 2006 "Israeli" aggression
on Lebanon, but blame each other for Failure.
Here's an excerpt from pages 490-491 of Rice's book. The scene: Bush and Rice are in Crawford, the rest of the National Security Council is beamed in via videoconference:
"I was stunned when the Vice President said in reply we shouldn't be seeking a [United Nations]
resolution.
"We need to let the "Israelis" finish the job," Cheney said.
The Vice President repeated his view that the war should continue. "Do that, and you are dead in the Middle East," I said to the President.
"Do that, and you are dead in the Middle East," I said to the President
For his part, Cheney admits in his book his strategy's failure:
"Hizbullah survived the war, and by the end of 2007 they, along with their ally Syria and their patron Iran, were ascendant in Lebanon," US Vice President stressed.
Blaming Rice unrealistic effort to solve "Israeli"-Palestinian conflict, Cheney claimed that his country "could have done much more to support the "democratic" aspirations of the people of Lebanon and thus helped to counter the growing regional prominence of Iran and Syria."
Source: Washington Post, Edited by moqawama.org
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