Rice Calls Sadr a "Coward"; Echoes Bush's "Bring'em On"
By Bill W. Sunday Apr 20, 2008 8:38am 
Sitting bravely behind concrete walls while visiting Iraq this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose to channel her boss (circa 2003) by responding to Muqtada al-Sadr's latest threat with an official "taunt" from the U.S. government:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. ...(read on)
VetVoice's' Brandon Friedman goes on to explain that this "actually provides a huge piece of propaganda for Sadr, who can now use it as a rallying point for his followers who will view this as a challenge to their honor," and just when the surge was beginning to work so well.
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Condi, STFU! Nice of you to toss a match into the 100 gallons of gasoline. Especially when you are about to hightail it out of dodge.
Well of course... miserable liars come in all shapes and sizes.
they gotta get this war with iran going before the elections...
If there's nothing for her to lie about, then she simply says something inflamatory.
As pissed off Patricia has observed, this statement really is bound to be an inFLAMatory one.
Meanwhile, a real American patriot, Jimmy Carter, was in Palestine, negotiating peace.
I think the Torture Queen is projecting...
Is Al-Sadr anti-american?
Why do I always look down when I want to look up
Why do I shake somebody down when Im feelin shook up
Why do I wander around when I want to hook up
Why am I puttin it down when I wanna pick up
If the whorehouse wants us to believe it's not trying to pick a fight and get more soldiers killed simply so they can keep their war profiteering going why would they send Bucky the Wonder Horse to the top of a hill to taunt the people we are supposedly trying to achieve peace with?
Ewwwwww...feh! A link to FauxNews without a warning. Not fair.
Jeesh what a sordid record the black Republican has. Losers each and every one. Claude Allen, Alphonso, Condi, Powell.
The only way to stop what Cheney is doing (via, inter alia, Rice's taunts) is to make sure that people know that al Maliki has stronger links to Iran than al Sadr.
In a way, you are focusing on the wrong part of the taunt. The key isn't just the daring al Sadr to turn his followers loose. The key is how she said that al Sadr is in Iran, which is designed to fool the American public into thinking al Sadr has stronger links to Iran than al Maliki.
They already tried to link Iran to AQI, but that (amazingly) failed. So the new trick is to get al Sadr to fight back (which he'll have to at some point; he can't let his people in Sadr City be starved, etc.). Then they'll keep hammering away (i.e., lying) about al Sadr links to Iran to get the public behind an attack on Iran.
We lost the nuclear argument when the damned NIE report came out. We can't use Bin Laden, since he has absolutely nothing to do with Iran and everyone knows it. We tried and failed with the staged incident in the Red Sea. We tried and failed with AQI. So, not we're going to try to start a war with Iran using al Sadr.
Help stop this by repeating, as often as possible, to as many people as possible: al Maliki has stronger links to Iran than al Sadr.
The man has nothing to lose...we have a saying about that. Rice, a provincial American, is taunting emotions she does not understand. Perhaps Sadr will see this a bravado for trailer park consumption..perhaps he will not. I think Mr. Bush, in hind sight , regretted his use of this style. Ms. Rice cannot hope to fix anything in Iraq with talk like that.
Not to worry John McGoo will save us with his revolutionary new ideas ....like stay the course....surge....surge is working...as safe as a market in Indiana...more purple fingers for all...follow us home...100 years...Sunni....I mean Shia...Shia...I mean Sunni...er..al-Qaeda...I mean Iran...or extremists...um...I don't know about economy...thank you my friends.
Oh McGoo you've done it again!
What? Is the surge working too well and they need to stir up more shit? Like Fox said at comment 6, President Carter is trying to bring peace by communication and Rice is trying to bring on more killing by taunting.
Get ready to go shoe shopping Ms Rice, because thanks to you some real shit could well hit the fan and we all know how you react at a time of crisis.
Condoleezza McBeth doesn't have enough blood on her hands?
Who could have anticipated....
God do I hate this stupid, affirmative action bitch. Like Bush, she hasn't done shit in eight years.
Stupid is as Stupid Does! This lying bitch has no sense of what she is doing to the USA, the troops or the world at large. She's just another war criminal from the Bush$Co fascism parade!
Maybe she's auditioning for the number two spot on the McCain ticket.
Ms. Rice cannot hope to fix anything in Iraq with talk like that.
But she might win the VP spot on the GOP ticket. And since when did this admin actually want to fix anything in Iraq? They want a permanent clusterfck to justify permanent occupation. Which they dont want to win, because what happens when you "win" the occupation?
You leave.
Good points JTM, but Americans don't know if al Sadr is a Shiite Al Qaeda, or an Iranian Sunni, or a Kurdish rebel posing as a Shiite posing as a Al Qaeda to build IED's for Iran?
Condi Baby
"Your mouth will generally get you into more trouble than it will get you out of..."
Ah, the little chicken hawk lady speaks! Brave, brave Condi.
Excuse me... but I didn't see the word 'coward', which you put in quotes in your headline, anywhere in what Rice was purported to have said.
What does C&L mean by putting such words in quotes?
Princess Condi the boneheaded, destined to be the greatest secretary of state ever! The splurge is working but hair isn't girl.
The most "do nothing and just show up" Sec of State ever, now resorts to name calling and taunting like her idiot boss. Getting a little testy now Condi? We're counting the days until your gone. As a Bush puppet she's worthless and has no credibility.
Isn't it time for Condi "Chevron named an oil tanker after me and all I got was this lousy Secretary of State job" Rice to go shoe shopping for some more S&M boots? How about some tickets to Spamalot? Fucking war criminal.
some would say he's a patriot, and others would say he is a coward...
hmm...
Prairie Sunshine @ 16:
Anybody with a brain could have, sunshine.
Angling for the vice-presidency already?
Fugly is as fungly does.
Well, Ah thinks he's one o' those damned Cuban Chinese Commies, is what Ah thinks. Kill 'em all, damn it. Ah'm votin' Republican agin!
Thats the way to win friends and influence people,condosleazy. Dale Carnegie would be so proud of you!
f**king warmonger
WASHINGTON (AP)--U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the U.S. Air
Force is not doing enough to help the Iraq war effort, complaining that some
military leaders are "stuck in old ways of doing business."
Gates complained Monday in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama that
getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been "like pulling teeth."
The Pentagon chief praised the Air Force for its overall contributions in
Iraq and Afghanistan but made a point of urging it to do more and to undertake
more creative ways of thinking about helping the war effort.
MS Chevron Tanker
McCain/Rice '08.
Bring THAT on and let the voters decide.
I'd bet that Condi Rice's taunting will work in Al Sadr's favor among many Shia. This may even work to his advantage among those Shia in Iraq that are his rivals and will cement an alliance between them. A taunt coming from Bush or some other male official is one thing but when it comes from a non-combatant woman it could be seen as an serious insult to all Shia and maybe some Sunni Iraqi Muslims as well. Rice's comments may have just set in motion a new wave of suicide bombers and who knows what else.
Pissed off Patricia,
Carter said on NPR that privately the State Department supported his trip. But publicly the State Department is ripping Carter.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
We can see who she's loyal to
http://tinyurl.com/2cfrwu
Canuknotusa @ 24:
Here
BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.
ysbaddaden @ 30:
Fugly is as fugly does...but maybe she does have a problem with fungae.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
Ms Exxon Valdez?
Embittered American named Janet @ 39:
Sorry, but my understanding of a quote is that it is the exact words spoken. Maybe the definition is different in the US?
She's an idiot, period. one of many in this administration. the second our troops feel they are making some headway some idiot has to stir the shit storm and start getting people killed.
Rosanne @ 29:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hAg_k69a4M
"One of the more bizarre characters:
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Torture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqaw5UnHA4
THIS....is just more bush diplomacy. What a dumb bitch!
Ossi @ 7:
This is the first time I remember him being specifically portrayed as such. He is anti-occupation and the time's assertion, without any explaination is probably part of a government attempt to introduce war mongering propaganda into the the public eye.
Does the name "Judith Miller" ring a bell j?
another episode starring Condoleeza Rice:
Condoleezza Rice Led Chevron’s Public Policy Committee During Oil For Food Scandal
http://thegooddemocrat.wordpress.com/2007/05/10/condoleezza-rice-led-che...
Why didn't she just say "bring 'em on?"
That worked so well last time...
"I know he's sitting in Iran," Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr's latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," Rice said. "I guess that's the message; his followers can go too their deaths and he's in Iran."
And exactly where was the leader sitting who declared the invasion of Iraq? Was it all out war for anyone but him? Was he there with the soldiers fighting and dying, due to his command? Whose troops went to their deaths in Iraq while their leader cleared brush, rode his bike and made incoherent statements in the USA?
And, I'd bet that after Condi made those statements she slapped several U.S. troops on the back who were about to go out on patrol in Baghdad and said: "Go get em you guys! ha ha!" Knowing full well that she probably has just unleashed a new fire storm that those same troops will have to contend with.
How is it that I have no experience in foreign policy or the Middle East and Ms. Rice is supposedly a well-educated Secretary of State...but I'm smart enough to know that you don't openly call a Middle Eastern man, whose culture is extremely male-centric and who has a powerful regional army, a COWARD in PUBLIC when he's threatening you?!?
What in the world is WRONG with these people?!?
OK, maybe I'm a conspiracy nut, but, could it be that the Admin thinks stirring up the shit (and getting more of our people killed) in Iraq will help McInsane's chances?
She's ready to take on those nasty brown people. First... a little shopping:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7765/641rn1.jpg
pissed off patricia @ 50:
Well said. its pathetic how forked these bastards tongues are.
More then a women to me
More then a women
http://tinyurl.com/3kxkto
She's got some mad diplomacy skillz! I'm not a huge Jimmy Carter fan, but it's nice to see an adult trying to set an example for the neo-kiddies.
You've got to be an idiot not to see that this is all orchestrated. The Bush Administration is proceeding exactly as planned. The whole point is to make out Al Sadr as some kind of bizarre lunatic, making the millions of Iraqis who support him Al Quaida sympathizers. There is so much US-funded propaganda going on inside Iraq that it would blow your mind. The scene is being set so that something will happen to Al Sadr and be blamed on "rogues elements" among his militia. Remember when the British forces got caught dressed in Arab garb shooting at Iraqi police? Then a few weeks ago, US forces were seen in local dress too. Bush's plan has always been - "We will own Iraq one way or another". How sick and disgusting. Will we ever be able to visit that great country with an incredible amount of world history after what we have done to them?
Yet more proof that Condi is NOT qualified to act as Secretary of State. ONLY EIGHT MORE MONTHS!!!!
Big words coming from someone who makes secret, unannounced trips to Iraq. Let's see her and her boss announce an Iraq trip a week ahead of time. Until then, we'll see who the cowards are.
I am reminded of a line from True Grit: "Those are big words, coming from a one-eyed fat-man."
I can't wait until McCain names her his veep choice. Let the party begin!
As I watched the Patriot's Day re-enactments this weekend, I thought there were much closer similarities between the colonial militia of 1775 and the Sadr militia of 2008 than the pundits would be happy with. Very striking when the British redcoat re-enactor shouts to the militia who are shooting from behind stone walls, "Come out and fight like real men, you cowards!"
Al-Sadr is not anti-American, he is pro-Iraq. Just to ask if he is anti-American is asking the wrong question.
what a neanderthal. . .
Sheila @ 58:
There's no shortage of idiots thats for certain. Of course others are to busy chasing after "lifestyles and stuff" the TeeVee sells them and are clueless as to whats happening.
serge @ 61:
Carly Fiorina is rumored to be his choice. (The CEO HP booted out the door)
3 Freakaloin Says: they gotta get this war with iran going before the elections…
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I fear this is truth.
Canuknotusa @ 42:
According to this, you are correct. A restatement or interpretation doesn't get quotation marks. Wikipedia also agrees, as do I.
What Bill W. seems to be doing is saying (correctly) that Condi Rice effectively called al Sadr a coward. He short-handed this by using quotes. That was the wrong thing to do. If nothing else, it allowed you to entirely miss the point.
A coward starts fights that they send others to engage in.
Say what you will about Al Sadr, but he's no coward, bully maybe, but no coward.
L.A. Confidential @ 65:
Well she was also an outstanding success at her job, no?
heckuvva job ther cond..oh the hell with this administration, they don't know a damned thing about the middle east even now after almost 8 years.
worst president ever and must be the worst secretary of state ever too.
i swear, reagan was an idiot, but at least he could choose competent people to run the show for him. chimpy can't even manage that.
JTM @ 67:
Oh I didn't miss any point. But thanks for agreeing with me about the lack of accuracy in the C&L headline...
Clueless on statesmanship and hasn't accomplished anything as secr of state. Always easy to talk tough when you don't have to do the fighting and risk your life.
Condi - Go back to what you do best - shopping!
Hey, she was a little shook up. She just had to run for shelter at the air base under heavy sniper fire.
serge @ 69:
No, she wasn't outstanding.
Canuknotusa @ 71:
Oh, I think that a quick review of my posts on this site will show that about one in ten is a criticism of a headline. It drives me nuts (for some reason that I haven't yet put my finger on).
Glad you didn't miss the point. In fact, that I missed that you didn't kind of makes our collective point: mistakes in headline always weaken the thread.
Hulk @ 46:
I keep arguing about not using the b word and I never seem to get anywhere.
Read this.
What I would say to Ms Rice is this:
Ms Rice (I am very polite), the war crime tribunal is over yonder, please take your seat in the docket.
7 Ossi Says: Is Al-Sadr anti-american?
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At this point/these days, he might now be on the neocon payroll to help ramp up the propaganda, and stir the shit, for war with Iran. Would anyone here put it past these sneaky bastards? (Read NYT expose again.) (and snark)
Ossi @ 7:
He's anti foreign occupiers, America is the current foreign occupier of Iraq, ergo he hates them, ... probably much in the same way I'd be anti american if they were occupying my country and attacking my fellow countrymen, ... people don't like being bombed and occupied by a foreign army, who'da thunk it aye ?
Anyone here care to lay odds on war with Iran, before/by November (or January 2009)?
If someone ate rice, would they be hungry again an hour later?
(bitter) Edwin Hussein @ 78:
50/50
serge @ 69:
I saw a photo of her (can't remember the event) at some born-again, holy-roller economic/religous brainwashing conference. Goes to show that some women can be just as stupid, short-sighted, and incompetent as men.
(bitter) Edwin Hussein @ 78:
I would say it's 50-50, Ironically it's the Rice/Gates faction who are stopping Bush from siding with the Cheney gang and bombing Iran right now, ..... for the time being that is. All it would take is a boarder "incident" and it would be full scale war.
L.A. Confidential @ 80:
Have to put on another demonstration show for countries interested in seeing our nifty death technology in action.
JTM @ 75:
As pop said above, Condi threw a match into the 100 gallons of gasoline, probably going to get many more killed, and you worry about punctuation. If you got the point of the story why do you try to distract from it with bullshit? THAT drives me nuts. Read her statement again. You think sadr didn't take it that way?
L.A. Confidential @ 83:
I would say it's clearly the planned October Surprise.
It's almost as if, as though the neo-cons WANT a bloodier war! Smooth move secretary of state. In a male centric, misogynist society, a female insult a man by calling him a coward. excellent way to stir things up.
why is this NOT on the front page of the nyt?
If she really wanted to light a match in this mess, she should have said al-Sadr is "bitter". We all know what kind of firestorm that word ignites with people.
JTM @ 75:
Yes, they weaken the thread, but my guess is that there are a significant number of readers of this post who believe Rice used the word 'coward'.
That may make for a more interesting blog, but doesn't serve the greater purpose of good journalism.
Would y'all people concern yourself with correcting the punctuation of a death threat?
Embittered American named Janet @ 84:
Condi needed to say something to the 28%ers who get off on seeing American Troops bashing in skulls around the globe to give McCain a boost.
Wolf McBlitzer would make a great Repuke VP. Can we 'bring'em on now'?
ysbaddaden @ 85:
I think everyone is playing each other. Even those we are claiming to protect are playing us for suckers.
I don't think al Sadr is a coward or a bully. He is an Iraqi who doesn't want Iraq occupied and doesn't want a puppet government controlled by the US just like the vast majority of Iraqi's. I don't think al quaida in Iraq will even exist if we leave like they didn't exist there before we invaded that country. The Iraqi's will run off al quaida in short order.
Kindasleazy is a darker, female george bush. These people have no shame and no common sense and compassion is as foreign to them as french people.
Didn't we hear sometime back that Condi was the one who was trying to talk bush and cheney out of going into Iran? What's going on with her? Did she have a change of heart or did she change her mind because they think a third war would help McCain?
93 Bluesage
I call Al Sadr a bully, which is probably understating things, because he not only disregards civilian deaths (like we do), he also targets them.
She looks very Presidential... will she run for Vice President?
Cast of neocon characters:
Chris Matthews -- Tweety
John McCain -- Elmer Fudd or Mr. Magoo, maybe both
Condi -- Daffy Duck
al-Sadr was the first one to bring any semblance of order in Baghdad after we marched in and blew the top off of everything. His people began to stop the looting and craziness that followed. Had we been prepared to deal with those things at the time, he wouldn't have the following he has now. At least that's my belief.
Condi wants to be John Mcinsain VP mate. Keep the war drums pounding.
pissed off patricia @ 94:
I think that's just a distraction fed to the White House (Stenographers) Press Corps to make it appear that there is actuallly a discussion of real issues and facts when these people are all sycophants and BushLickers. Ask Condi's "real estate" partner, Randy Bean.
The one area in which I believe George W. Bush stands apart from almost all other leaders is as an absolutely appalling judge of talent. The most obsequious, incompetents are held by him to be paragons of excellence. From Cheney to Rumsfield, from Rice to Mike Brown, from Harriet to Gonzo: these are some of the least impressive people imaginable. It's as if he had set out to create a Bizzarro World version of the Manhattan Project. I would feel better if our National Security Council over the last 7 years had been staffed by Monty Python's Gumbys than Bush's mishmash of sycophants and hacks.
andy @ 82:
On what do you base this assertion? I don't disagree (and would normally argue that Cheney convinced Bush to order to Rice to do this), but I can cite no real evidence to show that Rice is still under Bush's exclusive control.
She would be a nice Vice President to McCain.
This is going well.
violence, and the "need" for US forces to remain in Iraq to quell the violence, is just what McCain and the GOP need for the next 6 months. can't remember the exact timing, but maybe that was what W needed back when he said what he said as well. old dogs, old tricks
DR-TV @ 5:
as well as being a Flimflamery one... what an effin' mess Condi is! Honest to Christ! Could she be any stupider than to incite Sadr with her rude and totally fucktard challenge. I can't wait until these frickin' idiots are out on their a$$e$ and can wreak damage in their own lives instead of putting the rest of us through this shit!
Canuknotusa @ 71:
I agree C&L should have been a bit more diligent but you should also blame Faux news. Their original headline: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351885,00.html said that Condi called him a coward. VetVoice and then C&L were quoting their inacurate quote. Of course one should know better than to take anything from Fox without double checking.
While I agree with the posters saying that Rice called al-Sadr a coward when she didn't is wrong, she certainly alluded that she thinks him a coward and that is a very dangerous thing to do as I'm sure she must know.
Bluesage @ 93:
I'm with you and PissedOffPatricia on this one. Sadr is someone to deal with honorably. Unfortunately, the fucktards in "charge" don't know honor from the hole in their heads.
she/they have no idea whom they're dealing with.
I can see the campaign slogan:
"McCain, before it's too late."
just like the Chicago campaign against harold Washington.
MikeD @ 107:
Looks like Fox didn't use quotes. That's the point, Mike. So in this case, Fox was more accurate with their headline than C&L.
[Assumes Jon Stewart's Bush immitation] Now, heh, this is what we call a ruse. We send Condi out to smoke out ol' al Sadr by implying he's in Iran. When he answers, we'll know just where he is and git him. Heh.
MikeD @ 107:
The Serenity Prayer is good advice to all, regardless of preferred metaphysics. There is zero chance of my having an effect on Fox. I might have an effect on C&L.
that's one tough beotch
The Smiths @ 48:
Yes, that Condi is a shining example of goodness and talent, isn't she?! Honestly, how transparent! The neocons are stepping it up in their push for war with Iran. We should rip them from their seats of power and throw them in the slammer until we decide it's time for a trial.
Why is this gap-toothed mess commenting on anything , regardless of whether or not she called Sadr a "coward" ?
What is it that this woman knows anything about ? The USSR , which doesn't exist in that form any longer ? Buying shoes ? Ignoring a PDB that warned of an impending attack on the US ?
This dummy is an embarrassment to all women and is taking black women back 50 years ; what a stupid ass..........
How about Condi & Moqtada in a Royal Rumble. The world wide pay per view would be huge. We could use her cut to pay down the war debt. Bush & Chavez could be the under card.
Hedley Lamarr @ 112:
John Wayne @ 114:
No
Just a stupid one ; it doesn't take "toughness" to be spewing stupid shit out of your gap-toothed mouth while being behind concrete walls and having half the US Army positioned outside ............
116 MCMetal
Her doctorate is in Sovietology. That's now a practical as a doctorate in Ancient Aramaic Pottery. Without connections she'd be working at Starbucks.
Why Why Why do we let these idiots keep talking!!!!!!! I cant wait until I dont have to hear from her EVER AGAIN! They act worse than my kids. Sorry she just gets me so emotional, in a bad way.
MCMetal @ 116:
50 years? How about pre-civil war? Her sleeping closet would be next to Mr Beauregard's while she would be content to look down on all the other coloreds.
111 Canuknotusa
So C&L quoted Faux quoting kindanasty.
Do you have any opinions about the subject of the quote?
JTM @ 75:
Not really. It just adds more to the critical analysis. Four comments out of 115 (at this point) will not divert from the true point of the article. Most here can easily operate on multiple levels of comprehension. It's part of the process of critical thinking.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...
pissed off patricia @ 1:
Of course they're tossing a match. They WANT the war to continue. They are making boku bucks off of it.
Heh, what's the problem for the GOP leadership...it ain't their kids dying.
"I know he's sitting in Iran," Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr's latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," Rice said. "I guess that's the message; his followers can go to their deaths and he's in Iran."
Yeah, and our troops can be sent to theirs in Iraq unnecessarily while your boss is busy clearing brush in Crawford and while you are doing whatever you do, maybe buying more shoes like you did during Katrina, you stupid bitch!
She and her husband have taken dense to a whole nother level.
Damn those Iranians destabilizing the region! Damn them for inciting violence and stopping political reconciliation! Iranians stop meddling in Iraqi affairs! Stop your threats and your provocations!
What a fucking idiot.
I repeat:
WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT!
If a major new rise in the deaths of American soldiers by al-Sadr's militias occurs, then the blood is on the hands of this stupid, unfeeling, unforgivable c*nt - and I only use that word because it is the only one I can think of that is demeaning enough to truly describe her.
I truly hope Keith Olbermann gives it to Rice tonight, but good!
JTM @ 12:
Interesting. I didn't fully understand the dynamic of why this taunting BS was being done. That makes complete sense.!!!!
Hey Gaptooth -- Where's bin Laden?
Bruce @ 62:
Bruce, a ridiculous idea. Those New England hotheads in 1775 didn't get very far !
You are right. We resemble that occupying force of redcoats a lot more than we realize! The largest, best-equipped army in the world fighting an ill-equipped one a fraction of its size... Gee, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to see the parallels!
Interesting sidenote: Despite what we learned about Lexington and Concord in school, the British actually won a majority of the battles in the Revolutionary War. On paper, there's no way they should have lost the war -- but they did. There's a lesson to be learned there if anyone wants to pay attention.
Richard @ 13:
You think bush has regrets?
That never occurred to me. It's not in character for him. He has always blamed others for his mistakes.
So maybe she's not an expert on the middle east. I for one am glad Bush chose an expert on the Soviet Union as his National Security Adviser back in 2000. Always great to have all that expertise on a country that NO LONGER EXISTS!
Putin's Bicep @ 129:
Thanks, but here's something much better.
JTM @ 102:
From various places, but i heard an interview with Ray McGovern who has sources who told him that there are two factions vying for Bush's ear, one led by the "realists" such as Gates and Rice (although shes a hawk compared to most) who are for diplomacy/sanctions and the warmongers like cheney etc who want Bush to use military force.
Again, I also (usually) think this, too, but there's still one thing that I worry about: that they are purposefully putting this story forward in an attempt to make the public like her. ...that they actually think there's a chance that not only will McCain win, but there could be a place for Rice in his administration. Her Number One job would be: prevent war-crimes prosecutions. I don't buy the idea that they'd try for VP. But some position with enough power to shield them for another four years, as well as do their bidding in case, after being elected, McCain goes all "maverick" on them.
I thought that for all her sins, Condi was at least smarter than jug of custard. Guess I was mistaken.
boku is actially spelled beaucoup
it's time to toss cundirice out the door
put her on the other side of the wall of the green zone,
let her fend for herself or come home to
an impeachment.
Loonie @ 138:
sea slugs are smarter than cundi, they have brain cells.
John Hall @ 126:
Too bad our media will never do their job in pointing out that Condi ALSO knows Bin Laden is sitting in Pakistan while our coward in chief and his band of merry men spread the good news day and night about our progress in Iraq and strong economy.
I'm sick of hearing they will (AQI) follow us home...how? With their Airforce? With their Navy? Swimming camels? Flying carpets? I'm both intrigued and confused but still waiting for an answer from the A.D.D. Republicans or their retard window licking cousins...the main stream media.
I'm sick to death of hearing how our soldiers will have died in vain if we lose in Iraq....well hows this...
Until Bin Laden and co. are dead or at least being pursued,the people who died on Sept-11 who mean NOTHING to REPUBLICANS died in vain...just like Katrina victims...
..the people responsible for Sept. 11 have NOTHING to fear from REPUBLICANS, who have THE worst case of A.D.D. Ever in recorded history!....or they are COWARDS!
ronhohn @ 139:
Merci'
Preparing for the next Bush "diplomatic initiative": Iran invasion.
Instead of Talking Heads can we from this day forward call the MSM persons Window Lickers?
Can we also call McCain Mr.McGoo?
"I know he's sitting in the US," Rice said dismissively, when asked about Bush's latest threat to a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," Rice said. "I guess that's the message; his followers can go too their deaths and he's in Crawford or Camp David."
StevePam @ 143:
If they follow me home, can I keep 'em?
Liberal AND Proud @ 148:
My grandpa says if you don't feed 'em they'll leave on ther own.
So I guess you should feed 'em.
Yep, all very brave and noble of her while sitting in the relative Safety of the Green Zone... tell me, didn't someone - Sunni, Shia, AQI, who exactly knows? - lob a few into the green zone while she was there?
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