Rice taps Clinton and Carter for Middle East advice

[oberliner]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.

Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday.

Their talks were "good and cordial," he said. They focused on the Middle East and not Carter's recent criticism of President George W. Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN2619674120071026

[babylonsister]

1. Unreal. What took her so long? What a waste of flesh. nt

[Junkdrawer]

2. Window dressing for the window dressing...n/t

[lonestarnot]

3. OMG

:rofl:

[Horse with no Name]

4. They are just looking for a Democrat to sling shit at

if they were serious, they would have done this long ago.

[pacalo]

5. My advice to her: stay with the boy king & send Carter & Clinton to the conference.

[Island Blue]

6. That should make some Freeper/Fundie heads explode.

As much as they hate Clinton (because in the words of Larry Craig, "He's a bad, bad, nasty boy.") they think that Jimmy Carter is the devil. While I don't trust ANYTHING the bush administration* does, this could be interesting. (And the only hope of achieving anything real.)