Bush Getting Orders From Olmert?

Another Bush legacy to add to the list. Did he mention this in his final news conference?

Ehud Olmert said in a speech today that he called Bush minutes before voting on UN security council resolution 1860 to tell him that the US "cannot vote in favor of such a resolution". Olmert proudly told a crowd in Asqalan (Ashkelon) that he left Condoleezza Rice "shamed" as she had to change her position in the Security Council and abstain, to the surprise of other foreign ministers who worked with Rice on the draft. Olmert was quoted by AFP as saying:

"In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a cease-fire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favor. 

I said 'get me President Bush on the phone'. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't care. 'I need to talk to him now'. He got off the podium and spoke to me. I told him the United States could not vote in favor. It cannot vote in favor of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favor.

She was left shamed... A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favor."

Long before Olmert's revelations, Palestinian foreign minister Riad Malki's gave his account of what happened at the Security Council, expressing surprise about Rice's last minute abstention:

"We were told that the Americans were going to vote in favor," he said Friday, a day after the vote. But when Rice came in to the Security Council chamber, she informed the Saudi foreign minister with an apology that she would abstain and would clarify later that the U.S. supported the resolution nonetheless. "What happened in the last 10 or 15 minutes, what kind of pressure she received, from whom, this is really something that maybe we will know about later," he said.