"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 cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Pouring on political bravado, Olmert said he demanded to talk to Bush with only 10 minutes to spare before a UN Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution opposed by Israel calling for an immediate ceasefire.
"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 recalled.
"He got off the podium and spoke to me," he said.
"I told him the United States could not vote in favor. It cannot vote in favor of such a resolution," he recalled telling the American president.
"He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favor."
Fourteen of the Security Council's 15 members supported the resolution, which calls for an immediate ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the bombed-out Gaza Strip.
Red-Faced
Olmert said his phone-call and Bush's immediate intervention left Rice red-faced after she had "cooked up, phrased, organized and maneuvered" the resolution.
"She was left shamed," he noted. "A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favor."
The US, Israel's main ally, had initially been expected to voted in line with the other 14 but Rice later became the sole abstention.
5 comments:
If she had any soul, she would have defied Bush and voted in favour.
That they chumped her sounds about right. Yup.
LMFAO!!!!
Not only are they arrogantly self-entitled, but cocky enough to brag about it now too!
Well that's what you get for backing a buncha schmucks, Condi! You are nothing more than a stepping-stone shiksa to be farted on and flushed immediately afterwards like a dirty asswipe.
FACE IT FOLKS, the KKK, Farrakhan, Muslims and Ickeian followers are all right. We are living in a ZOG that is one fat kosher tentacle of the Reptilian World 0rder! Hissssss!
Damn, he's bragging about doing her dirty. And Bush just spit in her face too.
She needs to burn some bridges once she leaves that job.
She willingly volunteered and stayed -- until the last minute to be everyone's ass wipe and liar. Good riddance to her and the Bush Administration
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