[the anti-liberal]

Good for her, but as Malkin asks - where's Bush on this?

[nuffsenuff]

Bush issued a statement and had Condi call Karzai.

[linear]

If they do execute this guy, we should immediately withdraw our troops.

[zerosix]

Thank heavens someone bitch-slapped McCormack from the State Department. His behavior was disgusting during his briefing the other day.

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

What did she call him? I've a few choice words in mind.

[cgk]

Malkin ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Michelle Malkin ping list...

[LibWhacker]

Karzai will somehow manage to intervene with the courts and get Rahman declared incompetent to stand trial. He'll be released and his headless body will be found a week later. International crisis averted, and islam continues to have its way.

[Wimpy329]

Classic technique.

Hostage negotiations, buying a car, etc. Never commit the highest authority to an absolute position. You've got nowhere to go if they tell you to take a leap. If Karzai tells Secretary Rice there's nothing he can do, she invokes the diplomatic equivalent of "I'll tell Dad."

[mikrofon]

Ms. Rice also told Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Abdullah, in a 15-minute meeting in Washington today that she was deeply troubled by the case

It so troubled Rice
that she called him twice...

[don'tbedenied]

"Good for her, but as Malkin asks - where's Bush on this?"

Uh, having his Secretary of State make the call. That's her job. If you're implying that Bush should make the call for public relations purposes you're probably right. So many people are impressed by appearances, if Bush had rolled his sleeves up and pretended to help the National guard during Katrina he may have saved his poll numbers--not that anyone would actually have been helped. Clinton instinctively know when to get in front of the cameras and when to hide--and that's all he did. Bush appears to just want to do his job and have his cabinet do theirs. Just my 2 cents.

[EDINVA]

I'm getting more than a little sick of everyone suggesting they know what Bush should do, when he should do ... let THEM run for office.

He could spend his whole presidency like his predecessor and fell everyone's pain, leaving the door wide open for another 9-11, but, ah, the intervening PR and polls would be great !

[WalterSkinner]

..things seen and said in public are often very different from what goes on in back-channel conversation--I'm sure GWB is leaning VERY hard on Karzai...

[Larry Lucido]

When someone elects Michelle president, she can make all the phone calls, from ordering presidential staplers to threatening thermonuclear war. President Bush can delegate as he chooses.

[cricket]

Am not too happy about Condi's statement re the 'death' of Saddam's in-law; former 'Master of the Wood Chipper':

"We were disappointed there was not greater dignity given to the accused under these circumstances," Rice said during a news conference with her Egyptian counterpart.

The accused? Death with dignity for the man who put Iraquis into a wood-chipper; feet first?

'Condi. . .where are you?'

Perhap's she was preparing her message to karzai. . .

[Capt. Tom]

Ms. Rice said that the United States fought for those values in Afghanistan, and that the case was contrary to the Afghan constitution, Mr. McCormack said.

It is a Muslim problem Condi and not for us Infidels to decide. - Tom

Article 1 [Islamic Republic] Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state.

Article 2 [Religions] (1) The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.

(2) Followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law,.

Article 3 [Law and Religion] In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam.