President Clinton calls on western leaders to broker Lebanese ceasefire

[Breeze54]

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=04e9edd4-0dbc-415b-b7a2-f867fe345eba&k=74029

Clinton calls on western leaders to broker Lebanese ceasefire

Murray Brewster, Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, July 27, 2006 Article tools

HALIFAX (CP) -

The United States and other western countries should be pushing hard for a ceasefire
between Israel and Hezbollah, along with the insertion of an international peacekeeping
force in southern Lebanon, former U.S. president Bill Clinton said Wednesday.

The Islamic group Hezbollah's tactics are at the root of the latest bloody conflict in the region,
but Clinton also questioned the length to which Israel has gone to defend itself.
"It's important for us to get some kind of ceasefire now," Clinton said.
"I think this idea of an international force needs to be fleshed out."
His position stands in contrast to the Bush administration and Israel, which have both
rejected the idea of a quick truce.
As three days of inconclusive Mideast diplomacy broke up in Rome, U.S. Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice said a ceasefire without conditions would allow Hezbollah
to regroup and attack Israel or other countries anew.
Clinton said Israel has been looking for an opportunity to "degrade" Hezbollah's military capacity.

"The danger in this Israeli strategy is that Hezbollah attacks with rockets, then hides among civilians,"
he told 5,000 people at a sold-out event at the Halifax Metro Centre.

"No matter how measured the response is, if you go after them, you're going to kill innocent people."
Hezbollah has tried to do what Hamas has done in the Palestinian territories and said,
"when it suits us we'll be a political party and when it suits us we'll go to war,"
Clinton told former Canadian ambassador to Washington Frank McKenna in a
question-answer session following the speech.

Clinton also said Israel went too far in bombing the airport in Beirut.
"I understand why (Israel) wanted to degrade their military capacity, but I question whether
it was worth it to wreck the airport because the airport was the symbol of the new Lebanon."

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[whistle]

1. Has Jimmy Carter gone on record yet about this current war?

[Breeze54]

4. I saw him in an interview on

The News Hour PBS, I think, the other day.
Have you done a search? :shrug:

I was thinking the same thing.
I'm wondering if he and Clinton are taking action behind the scenes.
Could be!

[whistle]

7. anything I google with Carter and the middle east comes up RW hate sites

[Breeze54]

8. Found this --->

Questions and Answers
by Jimmy Carter
http://jimmy-carter.dailykos.com/
Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 11:04:14 AM EDT
I wrote on Monday on behalf of my son, Jack Carter, for his US Senate race in Nevada.
Here are some of the questions that you asked, and my responses.


But I see what you mean, gheesh!
I just did a search using ( hezbollah/jimmy carter) and got nothing but RW BS sites too!]
:grr:

What about his Peace website? I'll have to find the link....

[Stinky The Clown]

2. While I applaud this, why not use the influence he has to ....

..... break with tradition and just come out and slam Il Dunce? Clinton can have as much face time on teevee as he wants. use the influence and just do it, Bill. You don't owe these fuckers jack shit. They screwed you right in the ass when they could. Do it back. It would not only be oh-so-good, it might actually make something happen.

[Breeze54]

6. He's too classy for that besides

why make himself look like an ass?
That's to easy a shot for him, to attack junior.
He needs to keep his self respect, and attacking bush right now won't help anything.
JMO.

[napi21]

3. Oh MY. ShrubCo I'm sure has their Clinton voodoo dolls out

and a big supply of new pins!

I happen to agree with BC, but he's been a thorn in Shrub's side forever. I suspect Shrub would accept help or advice from almost anyone EXCEPT BC!

[rodeodance]

5. hey big dog. good for you

[Totally Committed]

9. I'd take him a lot more seriously...

if he hadn't just campaigned for Joe the Warmonger in CT. My guess is that Joe'd rather forfeit his left nut than have Israel agree to a cease-fire, but isn't saying so, because he's running against Lamont.

Bill, you're a hypocrite -- about one thing or the other.

TC

[AJH032]

10. how is he a hypocrite?

Campaigning for Lieberman and calling for a cease fire are not mutually exclusive acts. Do you mean to say that because Clinton supports Lieberman in the primary, they must agree on every issue? Most people don't put such restrictions on themselves.

[Gloria]

11. At least two statements here have been debunked...

That Hezbollah started it (Re: Mike Malloy reading from the press last night about how the Israeli soldiers were in Lebanon)

and ...that Hezbollah "hides among civilians." Forgot where I read it, but apparently they DO NOT hide among civilians. In fact, they don't do it because they're afraid of being "informed on"....