3 minute diplomacy.
By on May 4th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
3 minute diplomacy.
“Ryan Crocker, the United States ambassador to Iraq, said that he and David Satterfield, who is the senior adviser on Iraq to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, had an impromptu 3-minute discussion with an Iranian deputy foreign minister. Ms. Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, did not participate.”
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Now he knows infinitely more about iran than condi.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:03 pmThey have to keep these discussions short for George’s sake. That’s about how long his attention span is – somewhere between “Excited Irish Setter” and “Cranky Five Yr Old W/ Too Much Sugar In His System”.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:13 pmwhoopee-doo… now, don’t anybody tell john bolton…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 4th, 2007 at 10:15 pm3 Minutes!!
Wow, that’s about as long as it took GWB to knock up Laura.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:24 pmThe bigger the car they drive, the faster they come…………
May 4th, 2007 at 10:27 pm#4 GB
That long? GWB?
May 4th, 2007 at 10:27 pmActually, Gorilla Breath, when measured in Standard Friedman Units, it’s quite a bit longer.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:27 pm3 minute wonder?
No wonder wingnut women are so uptight…..
May 4th, 2007 at 10:32 pmRyan and David: “Hey man, we need to talk……”
May 4th, 2007 at 10:32 pmIranian Deputy Minister: “I know what you mean, dude, lets blow this pop stand and go rap… forget this bloviating mother of dogs and her poor counterpart!”
Just enough time to discuss Liverpool or Milan?
May 4th, 2007 at 10:34 pmLiverpool…. that’s where the Beatles were from, right?
May 4th, 2007 at 10:38 pmJust enough time to discuss Liverpool or Milan?
Comment by RUCerious
Shocking!
**clutching my pearls**
May 4th, 2007 at 10:38 pmNo wonder wingnut women are so uptight…..
Also explains why Lynne Cheney felt “compelled” to write lesbian westerns in the past…
May 4th, 2007 at 10:38 pmHoly crap. 626 days left.
Condimelda is SO frikkin lame. Utter failure: The new excellence.
Send Nancy!
May 4th, 2007 at 10:40 pmWill Condi and the White House start smearing Ryan Crocker and David Satterfield for having their own meeting? How long does a meeting have to last in order to get smeared?
May 4th, 2007 at 10:41 pmahhh, the eternal allure of pearls……………..
May 4th, 2007 at 10:44 pmRaven, there’ll always be a place in my heart for the fab four’s starting off point.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:52 pmI have a friend with whom I play and sing Beatles tunes. He’s got the McCartney first tenor and I do guitar, Lennon’s low harmonies.
And the harmonica.
Fun for all.
Major blessings are on the way for you, RUCerious… thanks……
May 4th, 2007 at 10:57 pmahhh, the eternal allure of pearls……………..
Comment by Raven
Heh.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pmRaven, I really just can’t wait to play again.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pmActually, I pickup one of my lighter electrics (A Gibson Nighthawk custom 24 in amber flame) and blasted some blues for about 15 minutes today. Damn in felt good!!!
Great values.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:07 pmJust enough time to discuss Liverpool or Milan?
Comment by RUCerious
:)
May 4th, 2007 at 11:09 pm3 minute wonder?
No wonder wingnut women are so uptight…..
Comment by Zooey — May 4, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
It only took that long because somebody was coaching George the whole time.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:13 pmThis administration is as good at diplomacy as Rudy is at keeping his zipper up.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:15 pmMay 4th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
No Shane, Georgie was thinking Texas Rangers, Texas Rangers, Sammy Sosa. I kinda killed the mood.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:16 pmI am sure they found out which way the bathrooms were in that conversation. Congrats Bush. Excellent diplomatic team. Heckava job.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:28 pmThey must have read, “The One Minute Manager.”
May 4th, 2007 at 11:35 pmThis administration is as good at diplomacy as Rudy is at keeping his zipper up.
Comment by WaltTheMan — May 4, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Rudy has more trouble keeping his bra strap up doesn’t he?
May 4th, 2007 at 11:50 pmBoth Condi and ImaDinnerJacket are controlled by the same elites so don’t be too worried about it.
Stop thinking everything on the world stage occurs randomly.
Everything is planned; written out the same way a script is written for a movie. Nothing happens by accident.
They do this to keep us occupied/distracted so we never figure out what’s really going on.
Dig deeper y’all.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:51 pmOh, do tell, Jonny, what is the universe telling you tonight?
May 4th, 2007 at 11:54 pmI don’t know what the Universe is telling Jonny, but I can tell you what it’s telling me. (and, as a side note, I got a stabbing pain in the top of my head when I began to focus on the question)
TYR:STRUGGLE:REVERSED
May 5th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Wow a whole 3 minutes huh. A lot can be said in 3 minutes > NOT. I bet Bush has 3 minute chats with Iraqi leader too. He just calls him up and calls him a sh-t and hangs up.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:14 amSynapsis of Articles of Impeachment Against Vice President Richard B. Cheney
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Artice I
The Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests.
(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Vice President actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
(2) Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq the Vice President was fully informed that no legitimate evidence existed of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Vice President pressured the intelligence community to change their findings to enable the deception of the citizens and Congress of the United States.
(3) The Vice President’s actions corrupted or attempted to corrupt the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, an intelligence document issued on October 1, 2002 vote to autorize the use of force. The Vice President’s actions prevented the necessary reconciliation of facts for the National Intellgence Estimate which resulted in a high number of dissenting opinions from technical experts in two federal agencies.
The Vice President subverted the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 3,300 United States service members; the loss of 650,000 Iraqi citizens since the U.S. invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war costs which has increased our federal debt; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decares of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.
EVIDENCE:
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1A.pdf
May 5th, 2007 at 12:15 amkucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1B.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1C.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1D.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1E.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1FG.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI1H.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI2A.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI2B.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI3.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI3.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/artI3.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/clo1.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/clo2.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/clo3.pdf
kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/clo4.pdf
Loki is screwing with your head BnF!!!
May 5th, 2007 at 12:16 amSince most Iraqi officials do not speak English well, then an interpretor had to be present, so that must mean that Crocker said one sentence that was translated in that 3 minutes. The Iraqi’s response was probably go hump a camel > lol.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:21 amOn a different note:
A 2005 study by the Government Accountability Office found that 35 of 44 firearm purchase attempts over a five-month period made by known or suspected terrorists were approved by the federal law enforcement officials.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/04/nra.terror.ap/index.html
May 5th, 2007 at 12:40 amBnF, I would love to hear from the NRA. I wonder why the NRA loves the terrorists.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:42 amOh, wait, the NRA are all for law-abiding citizens having guns. They just don’t give a f!ck if non-law-abiding citizens get guns.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:44 amJPark – it’s actually trickier than it sounds. Do we stop everyone on a “terror watch list” from being able to buy a gun? Well, Senator Kennedy was on such a list. Hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent Americans are on such a list.
And the troubling thing is, the easiest way to get on such a list is to protest the government. The Reich-wing is quick to call anyone who disagrees with it a “terrorist.” Heck, as a public school teacher, I belong to a “terrorist organization,” the National Educators Association. It was so labeled by Paige, Bush’s Secretary of Education.
In other words, such a ban could have the effect of stripping guns away from the 70%, leaving the 30% fully armed. I don’t know if that’s such a good idea.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:53 amMy elderly mother knew Ryan Crocker when he was US Ambassador to Kuwait. She was an American reporter in Kuwait for 10 years and said she liked him, but when I tell her about this she will be surprised. I guess everyone who works for Bush becomes stupid eventually > lol.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:56 amBnF, I am torn on the issue because the issue is what the founding fathers actually envisioned. We might need to defend ourselves from an authoritative government. However, right now, we are defending the rights of psychotic dildos to arm themselves.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:01 amBnF, I am not sure giving guns to paranoid schizophrenics is a real good idea. “Regulated” is a word used in the 2nd amemdment. I think it should be used.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:16 amJPark, problem is, the paranoid schizophrenics (i.e. the 30%ers) already have guns.
Even the “well-regulated Militia” has already been compromised, with the Federal Government able to assume command at will of States’ Militias.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:02 am