Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could soon be sitting across a table from her counterparts in Iran and Syria.
Rice told a congressional hearing Tuesday that senior U.S. officials will join a roundtable that will include representatives from Iran and Syria to talk about how to stabilize Iraq.
It seems like an about face from the Bush administration, which has long resisted the idea of engaging the Iranians on the issue.
Bush has said many times this year and last year that we would not be talking to Iran until they suspended their nuclear enrichment program. Well, now it appears we will be talking to Iran even when they have not suspended nuclear enrichment.
Many Bush supporters admire Bush for his unbending convictions. They admire him for this even when he stands by his convictions after they have been proven wrong. What they fail to notice is when Bush stops standing by his convictions long after they have been proven wrong when he thinks no one will notice, and then he claims his changed position was the same position all along.
Bush sure sticks to his guns... until he doesn't. Crooks and Liars points our the obvious hypocrisy:
Meeting With Iran/Syria: Bush Was Against It Before He Was For It
I shouldn't be so flippant about this, because one of the things that aggravates me the most is Bush's pig-headedness and inability to adjust to new information, however, I can't help but get a little flip-flopping dig in there.
Many of you may remember the "flip-flop" charge Republicans attacked Kerry with during the 2004 election when the term more accurately described Bush.
Bush was against taking the threat of terrorism seriously before 9/11, and he was for it after 9/11.
Bush was against the 9/11 commission before he was for it.
Bush was for getting Osama bin Laden before he said that bin Laden doesn't really concern him that much and has pretty much given up looking for him.
Bush was for diplomatic solutions in Iraq before he invaded Iraq.
Bush said he was for invading Iraq only as a "last option" before it became evident that he it was planning to invade Iraq all along.
Bush was against sending more troops to invade Iraq before he was for sending more troops there now that Iraq is a huge mess.
Bush was against fighting global warming before he was for it (but even now he isn't doing that much about it).
Bush was for the Iraq Study Group before he went against all their recommendations (like talking to Iran and Syria).
Bush was against talking to Iran and Syria, and now he is for it.
There are probably many other examples that I am forgetting right now, but my point stands. So who is the real "flip-flopper", Bush who quietly retreats on all these issues or Kerry who only changed his mind on the war in Iraq after he realized that Bush lied to him and everyone about Iraq?
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