Who To Believe - Rice or Carter?

Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State, says she warned former president Jimmy Carter not to go to the Middle East and told him specifically not to contact Hamas.

Ms. Rice is quoted as putting it thusly: "The United States is not going to deal with Hamas and we certainly told President Carter that we did not think that meeting with Hamas was going to help the Palestinians."

You may notice that this second statement is kinda murky; that nowhere there does she tell Jimmy not to to go where he was going to go or do what he was going to do - "...we certainly told"...? Sounds like she isn't real sure...

But, never mind 'cause the White House said Rice was right! There! That settles it!


Not really.

In response, former Prez Jimmy Carter said that Rice is a liar. Well, he put it a bit differently, and being a Baptist and all, he likes to say things nicely. So his Carter center in Atlanta issued a pissy little statement that said "President Carter has the greatest respect for...Rice and believes her to be a truthful person. However, perhaps inadvertently, she is continuing to make a statement that is not true."

Hee, hee!


Actually, I thought Carter was wrong to go traipsing off to visit with Hamas leaders because as we've said before, not only is Hamas a terrorist organization and not a political party, it steadfastly refuses the right of Israel to exist.

One cannot "negotiate" anything on Israel's behalf with anyone or any organization that denies Israel's right to life.

I'm sure Carter knew that, which means he must have thought his super powers of persuasion would cause the Hamas SOBs to see the light.

Didn't work.


However, in the final analysis, as they say, if I had to pick someone most likely to tell the truth, it would be former president Jimmy Carter. If I had to pick someone most likely to lie to cover her ass or the ass of the Bush administration, it would be Condoleezza Rice.

Or maybe, like in August of 2001, Rice and Bush and cronies decided to ignore the briefing that said Carter was a wild hair and something needed to be done about him.

Nothing was done and Carter flew off to do his thing.

What to do now? The only solution is to lie. The Bushites have the "big lie" perfected. That's one thing they do well. In fact, that's the only thing they do well!