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| Olmert: I told Bush not to vote for Gaza resolution | |
| 2009-01-13 | |
| Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says that he told President Bush not to vote in favor of the United Nations' last week resolution on Gaza. "I told him (Bush) 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," said Olmert on Monday. Last Thursday, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1860, calling for an immediate ceasefire between Hamas and Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip and an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. The US was the only country that abstained while fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favor of the resolution. According to Olmert, Bush had ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to abstain. "In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favor," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon. "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 did not care. 'I need to talk to him now'. He got off the podium and spoke to me," he added.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 g(r)om, More likely it went like this. "Try not to fuck this one up." "I'm not covering your inept ass forever." You can bet Bush won't be happy about that dumbshits grandstanding. Count on a yay vote on the next resolution and thank your PM for it when it comes. Don't make us here you whine, about the US selling Israel out. And just because I don't like you, enjoy your countries failure in Gaza, welfare queen. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-01-13 19:48 |
| #2 Worst Israeli Leader ever One more month to go sheesh |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-01-13 19:40 |
| #1 I'd think it was more along the lines of "can't you keep your [deleted by censor] under control?". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-13 06:03 |