Is this the best Stanford can do? Seriously folks, I think she got that job for some other reason, perhaps her corporate connections (well, Chevron was going to name a super-tanker after her) for fund-raising.
President Bush’s national security adviser acknowledged Thursday that some prewar intelligence about Iraq was flawed but brushed aside calls for an independent investigation.
Condoleezza Rice, in a series of television interviews, defended Bush’s decision to go to war and said the United States may never learn the whole truth about Iraq’s weapons capabilities because of looting, which U.S. forces failed to stop immediately after the invasion.
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Rice said the administration wanted to get all the facts to compare what the White House thought would be found in Iraq and what was actually found.
“Nobody will want to know better and more about what we found when we got to Iraq than this president and the administration,” she said.
Whatever the outcome, Rice said, the administration would not change its position that Saddam had to go.
Otherwise known as the "making shit up" rationale for war. Willful stupidity is a defense at an impeachment trial, it worked once in the last 10 years. Unfortunately I think 500+ dead soldiers might object to that line of logic.
Fearless Leader decided long ago to topple Saddam, probably when he was sober enough to find Iraq on a map and learned that his daddy's face was on the floor of a big Baghdad hotel. You know, it's that Texas Honor thing ... where you get mad, and someone else has to pay for your rage. In this case it was Preznit Give me Turkee and brave soldiers. Can he please go back to drinking again? Maybe he's less stupid drunk, certainly he has to be less dangerous.
posted by Jo Fish on 01.29.04 at 11:35 PM
Comments:
in case you hadn't seen this opinion piece yet:
More Evidence that Bush Is a "Dry Drunk"?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0127-11.htm
They *did* name a tanker after her. It was later renamed.
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
Rice was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation (which named an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice after her, later quietly renamed Altair Voyager)
posted by: Spud on 01.30.04 at 08:39 AM [permalink]
Back in July, I posted Serendipity which shows a picture of the tanker.
You can also see it at http://aztlan.net/oiltanker.htm
let's just call her the donovan mcnabb of right-wing screwballs, right rush?
posted by: tim on 01.30.04 at 01:13 PM [permalink]
Condie Rice was Rand's chair as well, IngersollRand's subcontractor is the company making the diebold "paper trail" upgrades. German subsidiaries master planning our elections.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 02.04.04 at 08:20 AM [permalink]