Disgraceful!

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 5:49 p.m. EDT

Albright Encourages Direct Talks with Iran

The nation's military forces are overstretched and the U.S. should seek direct talks with Iran instead of making threats, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said.

"The last thing we need is to invade another country," Albright told an audience of 800 people during a speech Tuesday night in Seattle.

Albright also suggested that an official high in the Bush administration should give a speech in response to a letter that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent Monday to the president.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials have portrayed the 18-page letter, the first from an Iranian head of state to an American president in the 27 years, as a stalling tactic while the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council discuss what to do about Iran's nuclear program.

Albright, who served in the Clinton administration, was in town to promote "The Mighty and the Almighty," her book on the role of religion in international relations.

� 2006 Associated Press.

Surely she's not suggesting that we act unilaterally?