Rice To Iran: “Normal Ties - Just Drop The Nukes” - Deja Vu?
Haven’t we been through all of this before?
For crying out loud they have SAID they will never stop enriching uranium.
They have said they want to establish a global caliphate?
What are we going to do? Sit around and wait for them to incinerate a few hundred thousand people, radiate a few million more, and destroy a part of the Earth for the next few centuries before everyone agrees they might be a danger and something needs to be done?
DAVOS, Switzerland - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she believed the nuclear stand-off with Iran could be resolved diplomatically but that Tehran must not be allowed to become a nuclear weapons power.
Just one day after getting agreement on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution against Tehran, Rice offered the incentive of a “more normal relationship” and expanded trade if Iran gave up sensitive nuclear work, according to the prepared text of her speech to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
“Ultimately, though, we believe that we can resolve this problem through diplomacy,” Rice said according to the text, which was distributed by conference organizers.
“If Iran would suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities - which is an international demand, not just an American one - then we could begin negotiations, and we could work over time to build a new, more normal relationship,” she said.
Rice said this new relationship could be defined not by fear and mistrust but growing cooperation, expanding trade and exchange, and the peaceful resolution of differences.
In a conciliatory note after weeks of anti-Iranian rhetoric by the Bush administration, Rice said the United States had no desire for Iran to be a “permanent enemy”.
“Iranians are a proud people with a great culture, and we respect the contributions they have made to world civilization,” she said.
But she said Washington had real differences with Iran’s government, from its pursuit of a nuclear weapon to support for terrorism and what the United States sees as Tehran’s destabilizing policies in Iraq.
Rice said that agreement reached between foreign ministers of major powers in Berlin on Tuesday for a third sanctions resolution showed that the world remained united over not wanting Iran to become a nuclear weapons power.
“We will continue to hold Iran to its international obligations,” said Rice.
(Reuters)
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She is frighteningly incompetent.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:16 pmHeeeyyyyy, Condi finally did something partially right. But she shloda talked more about how we would blow up the bastards if they tried anything. She’s to nice and not scary enough. We need someone threatening war at every international doorstep if they try the kinda shit that Iran has been doing for the past 3 years
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 pmHeeeyyyy Condi finally did something partially right. But she shoulda talked more about how we would blow them up if they tried anything. I say we need a more scary secretary of state that threatens war at every international doorstep that pulls the shit that Iran has been doing for the past 3 years
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 pmDiplomacy? give me a break. Never has, never will solve the problem.. Lip service, yak, yak, yak.. talk is cheap. Gotta kill the fucks before they kill us.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm1963 Birmingham, Alabama a mad man terrorist named Dynamite Bob Chambliss blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed 4 girls including one of Condo’s friends.
She having lived through that period in time, in the South, with a Radical Group of terrorists….it baffles me why she attempts to negotiate with a group of Radical Islamics that are no different than the KKK and a Man that is made of the same cloth as Dynamite Bob.
I just shake my head in dismay
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:50 pmThere is little more she can do at this time…our time is coming
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm- What are we going to do? Sit around and wait for them to incinerate a few hundred thousand people, radiate a few million more, and destroy a part of the Earth for the next few centuries before everyone agrees they might be a danger and something needs to be done?
sounds about right
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pmAnother ignorant ass diplomat who neither understands the ME nor the Jihadis. I still do not understand why it is that people who run this country are not sent to an Islam/Jihadistan 101 class when they take office. These are suppose to be smart people. They got sheepskins on their walls and rocks in their brains.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 pmWhat’s happening to Condi! She’s starting to sound like what’s-his-name… Carter, was it?
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pmIt’s all part of the cunning Bush surrender plan,
January 24th, 2008 at 1:20 amin which he, err, surrenders thus leaves office
with the glow of his other cunning plan, peace with
the Palestinians, shining brightly.
Ya think?
this is a test
January 24th, 2008 at 1:21 amcommenting seems broken.
I don’t know if anybody else is seeing this
January 24th, 2008 at 6:08 ampresumed software glitch, but I’ll describe it anyways.
As I post a comment, whilst usually I see my comment appear
in slightly slow motion, now I see somebody else’s comment
appear in slightly slow motion. From what I can tell, these
comments are not even from this thread.
But if I go away and come back later, I can read my comments
and the erroneous comments are not here.
I only noticed this a day or two ago.