Thanks for your comment and I share your concern about Rice using this latest development merely to hold up as evidence that diplomacy had somehow been exhausted. An interesting write-up I read recently speculated that this recent development (of the US coming to the Iraq sponsored conference with Iran and Syria) had significantly occurred while Cheney was out of the country and thus happened without his blocking it. We know he has previously blocked peace and diplomatic actions and proposals. I wish this war criminal were out of the US more often! It’s too long til he’s out of office, that’s for sure.

I find it utterly amusing that smeone will call “compliance under bullyism” diplomacy!

Am curious to see how Iranians and Americans get eachother out of the deadlock; but I wold also be watchful of how this is suposed to play to the internal public pressure on Rice from Americans. She can still hold her bully attitude and walk out of talks with: “lok we negotiated, but they don’t accept our dominance, so let’s go to a justified war now!”