Saturday, April 26, 2008

Duplicity? From the Bush Administration.

Jean Chretien, during the 1993 election campaign, once joked about his Bell's Palsy that at least 'e only talked out one side of his mouth, not both like a Tory.
So, Jean, what do you make of this?
Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S. - washingtonpost.com
Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush's letter gave the Jewish state permission to expand the West Bank settlements that it hopes to retain in a final peace deal, even though Bush's peace plan officially calls for a freeze of Israeli settlements across Palestinian territories on the West Bank. In an interview this week, Sharon's chief of staff, Dov Weissglas, said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reaffirmed this understanding in a secret agreement reached between Israel and the United States in the spring of 2005, just before Israel withdrew from Gaza.

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