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AFP: Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert
7 hours ago JERUSALEM (AFP) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday. "She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, ...
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Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - Yahoo! News
Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com — AFP/Getty Images/File U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, (more) Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - ...
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Hot Air » Top Picks — ... ? Olmert’s said all along that they’re not out to topple Hamas, but then, Olmert says a lot of things . The fact that Mossad thinks they know ...

Olmert Slams Condi... Advanced Classes in Chutzpah
TPMCafe — ... "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." (AFP, 1/12/2009) ...

Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon. The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where hundreds have been killed. Fourteen of the council's 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, which was later rejected by both Israel and Hamas. Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gD-Q...

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Rantings of a Sandmonkey — Usually from stories like these: The United States, Israel's main ally, had initially been expected to voted in line with the other 14 but Rice later became the sole abstention. "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 favour," Olmert said. "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 ...

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