 | January 16, 2009 Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up?By Patrick J. Buchanan |
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. ...
"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.
"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.
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/13/UPI_NewsTrack_TopNews/UPI-27411231903066/
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's claim that he got the U.S. government to abstain on a U.N. measure on the Gaza crisis was untrue, officials said.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Olmert's story of his conversation with U.S. President George Bush was "just 100 percent, totally, completely not true." White House Spokesman Tony Fratto said "there are inaccuracies" in what Olmert said.
During a speech Monday, the prime minister said he convinced Bush to tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not to support the Gaza resolution she had prepared. Olmert said he made an emergency call to the president.
"I said: 'Get me President Bush on the phone,'" Olmert said. "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."
McCormack said Rice had decided as early as Wednesday that she would not veto a resolution, after Arab ministers rejected an American effort to push for a weaker statement from the U.N. Security Council.
"So you have two possibilities left: voting for it or abstaining, and she decided, given where the state of the negotiations were in terms of the Mubarak initiative, that abstaining would give the best possibility for those negotiations to move forward and actually resolve the situation on the ground," McCormack said.
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Olmert did make the statement. But anyone competent on Israeli politics, ie not someone who uses the word Likudnik to talk about people other than members of the Likud and one who can find Israel's capitol on a map, would know the following:
Ehud Olmert is a corrupt and incompetent politician trying to create any legacy, before he is arrested at the end of his term.
2. Olmert is known for making grandiose statements and outright lies at rallies.
Finally, Buchanan, who is not known for his historical accuracy, should have done some fact checking.
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