Condi Rice: 'Hard' for Israel to spare Gaza civilians

[babylonsister]

'Hard' for Israel to spare Gaza civilians : Rice

Fri Jan 9, 2:46 pm ET


WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday defended Israel in the face of civilian deaths in Gaza, saying "it's hard" for Israeli troops to protect residents because the area is so densely populated and Hamas allegedly uses people as human shields.

"It is very difficult in circumstances like Gaza, which is a very densely populated area," Rice told reporters when asked if Israel is living up to its humanitarian obligations in the offensive which has left more than 780 Palestinians dead.

"I might note it's also an area in which Hamas participates in activities like human shields, using buildings that are not designated as military buildings to hide their fighters. So it's hard," Rice said.

"I was encouraged that Prime Minister (Ehud) Olmert, after an extensive conversation we had, agreed to open a new humanitarian corridor," the chief US diplomat added.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090109/pl_afp/mideastconflictgazausundiplomacy_newsmlmmd

[spanone]

1. i wonder if she ever listens to herself?

[gratuitous]

3. I'm guessing no

But she lives in a fact-free fascist fantasy bubble where she can hold several conflicting thoughts in her silly little head without any consciousness that she's spewing 100% Grade A Bullshit.

[jobycom]

2. Regardless of one's opinion of Israel, this should reveal a lot about Condi.

[baldguy]

4. Maybe if they stopped shooting & bombing them?

Just a thought.

[liberalmuse]

5. Rice just needs to bang away at that piano.

The woman reminds me of those brats we all knew in grade school who had no problem tattling on their classmates. She's lucky that most liberals can't stomach her hanging for war crimes (including myself). She's said maybe 3 things that weren't heinous during the Bush Dark Ages. 10 MORE DAYS!

[Vincardog]

14. Well This liberal could stomach her hanging for war crimes. I only oppose capital punishment for

humans

[peacetalksforall]

6. A think tank figures out the best way for her to say nothing.

[malaise]

7. If I had my way she wouldnt be spared

from a cell in The Hague. :puke:

[Skip Intro]

10. That's where that murderous monster belongs. She & her fellow warpigs have convinced me of one thing

hell must exist, because there is no lesser punishment fitting her crimes and those of the the other lying butchers of the bush gang...

[marmar]

8. Pretty soon she'll be free to shop for shoes 24/7.......

.... and not a moment too soon.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Why didn't Israel just go and dismantle the Hamas weapons?

why bother raining rockets killing hundreds of innocents and sending in ground troops when they could have sent their intelligence in there to dismantle the Hamas weapons?

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[Junkdrawer]

15. Why did BushCo never go after bin Laden?

Never destroy your pretext.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. Right

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[Junkdrawer]

16. Like the UN compounds that Israeli generals now admit never fired weapons...

Like that?

[baldguy]

17. Israeli hardliners need Hamas to exist

Otherwise they'd have no reason to exist themselves.

[NOW tense]

13. My old high school coach would be pissed with that attitude. It's Too Hard

When somebody used to say that he would tell us about his grandmother that could've been a linebacker and how she could kick our asses and then he would make us do push-ups.

Condi deserves to do push-ups

Oh

Is she moving to Texas with George or is Pickles?

[CoffeeCat]

18. Then don't bomb the Palestinians!!!

Geez!!!

She acts as if Israel has no choice but to relentlessly bomb Palestine.

"Wellllll....it's so hard to avoid killing people."

Yeah. That's what bombs do. Maim and kill innocent men, women and children.

There was someone from Palestine on a local Des Moines radio program discussing the conflict. Des Moines
is a city of about 200,000. The Palestinian woman said that there are 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza.
The Gaza area is about twice the size of Des Moines.

So basically, you've got several square miles, with millions of people in it.

The Israelis knew exactly what would happen when they bombed this densly-populated area. What in the hell
are they talking about, "Hammas uses people as human shields." What an evil cop out. There are people
everywhere . Any spot you hit, will most likely affect hundreds of people.

The murder of these innocent men, women and children is bad enough, but to pretend like it's some sort of
shucky-darn accident that just couldn't have been prevented--is bile inducing.

Rice needs to stop justifying people who behave like terrorists.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Hasn't Bush used the excuse that something is "hard work"

whenever he's been asked a challenging question about a situation that's completely fucked up and which he can't or won't try to resolve? I guess it must be rubbing off on Condi to simply throw up her hands and say "gee, this is hard". What happened to the spirit of JFK that welcomed the opportunity to face the hard decisions and meet the hard challenges of the world?

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

[Lint Head]

20. It wasn't hard for her to ignore the email warning that resulted in the incineration

deaths of 3,000 people in the WTC on 9/11.

She is a murderer.

:dem:

[madrchsod]

21. i`d say fuck her but i would`t want to.....

soon she`ll be just another has been....

[opihimoimoi]

22. A Stunning Failure.....she should commit sepuku....

[BeyondGeography]

23. Completely and criminally tone deaf

[OwnedByFerrets]

24. the opposite of hard is VERY EASY

[davekriss]

25. Will she please just get the F*CK out of here?! (nt)

[Le Taz Hot]

27. I know, I know!

How about not lobbing incendiary devices upon their heads? You think that might work, Condi?