“Early Friday morning the secretary of state was considering bringing the cease-fire resolution to a UNSC vote and we didn’t want her to vote for it,” Olmert said. “I said ‘get President Bush on the phone.’ They tried and told me he was in the middle of a lecture in Philadelphia. I said ‘I’m not interested, I need to speak to him now.’ He got down from the podium, went out and took the phone call.”
"Let me see if I understand this,” wrote a friend in response to news reports that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert ordered President Bush from the podium where he was giving a speech to receive Israel’s instructions about how the United States had to vote on the UN resolution. “On September 11th, President Bush is interrupted while reading a story to school children and told the World Trade Center had been hit--and he went on reading. Now, Olmert calls about a UN resolution when Bush is giving a speech and Bush leaves the stage to take the call. There exists no greater example of a master-servant relationship.”
Olmert gloated as he told Israelis how he had shamed US Secretary of State Condi Rice by preventing the American Secretary of State from supporting a resolution that she had helped to craft. Olmert proudly related how he had interrupted President Bush’s speech in order to give Bush his marching orders on the UN vote."
So writes Paul Craig Roberts [former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration] in a piece on CounterPunch "The Humiliation of America". He slams Bush, and his Administration, for their unquestioning commitment to whatever Israel does to the extent of taking their cue on policy from the Israelis. Hence the humiliation Roberts refers to - apart from this conclusion:
"What Bush did not explain is how America is respected when its people put a moron in charge for eight years."
Read this telling and forthright analysis of Bush, in full, here.
"Let me see if I understand this,” wrote a friend in response to news reports that Israeli Prime Minister Olmert ordered President Bush from the podium where he was giving a speech to receive Israel’s instructions about how the United States had to vote on the UN resolution. “On September 11th, President Bush is interrupted while reading a story to school children and told the World Trade Center had been hit--and he went on reading. Now, Olmert calls about a UN resolution when Bush is giving a speech and Bush leaves the stage to take the call. There exists no greater example of a master-servant relationship.”
Olmert gloated as he told Israelis how he had shamed US Secretary of State Condi Rice by preventing the American Secretary of State from supporting a resolution that she had helped to craft. Olmert proudly related how he had interrupted President Bush’s speech in order to give Bush his marching orders on the UN vote."
So writes Paul Craig Roberts [former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration] in a piece on CounterPunch "The Humiliation of America". He slams Bush, and his Administration, for their unquestioning commitment to whatever Israel does to the extent of taking their cue on policy from the Israelis. Hence the humiliation Roberts refers to - apart from this conclusion:
"What Bush did not explain is how America is respected when its people put a moron in charge for eight years."
Read this telling and forthright analysis of Bush, in full, here.
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