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Condoleezza Rice: Trump stands for American values and seeks to act in the best interests of the US
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/condoleezza-rice-president-donald-trump-stands-for-american-values.html
President Donald Trump may sound different than other presidents, but he believes in American values and tries to act in the best interest of the United States, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CNBC on Wednesday.
"I believe every president of the United States stands for our values," said Rice, who served as secretary of State and national security advisor during the presidency of George W. Bush. "You heard President Trump say, for instance, after the Syrian chemical attack, we can't let that stand. What he was saying was the president of the United States can't let that stand."
From the sidelines of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and KPMG Women's Leadership Summit at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Illinois, Rice said on "Squawk Box" Trump knows the importance of alliances and expects him to forge ties with Democracies around the world.
"While the language may be different, and we might talk about needing to deal with policy, I think you're going to see ... that Americans' interests in values are always linked," Rice said. "It's early days in this administration. Let's remember that."
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Trump does stand for the traditional American values of screw the common man and pretend the USA is somehow the cream of the crop.
Of course some of us are more enlightened than that.
Me.
(35,454 posts)And who was a major supporter of Tillerson for SOS.
Cha
(297,728 posts)brain.. it's freaking addled.
What kind of person spouts glaring bullshit like this?
Me.
(35,454 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)The President's National Security Adviser before, during, and after 9/11/
and who helped to lie us into an unneeded war in Iraq which made us and the
world less safe along w/creating ISIS.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)by Catherine Austin Fitts, Former Assistant Secretary of Housing
Hon. Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
April 9, 2004
Dear Ms. Rice:
I am writing to communicate four points regarding your testimony yesterday under oath before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
Point #1: You are a liar.
Attorney General Ashcroft sits on the National Security Council. Warned by his FBI security detail, the head of law enforcement for the United States knew to avoid commercial airlines on September 11, 2001.
It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people who flew on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, United Airlines Flight 93 and American Airlines Flight 77 had the benefit of the same warnings as those they paid to protect us.
You knew. You kept silent. They died.
You had numerous warnings of the risks of 9-11 - sufficient to let the American people know and use their best judgment as to how to protect themselves from a possible attack. It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center had the knowledge they needed to evacuate their building upon seeing the North Tower hit by a plane.
You knew. You kept silent. They died.
Point #2: Your motives are transparent.
The World Trade Center is in the heart of New York City - one of the great financial capitals of the world. The Pentagon is in the heart of Washington -- the appropriation and accounting capital for the US federal budget and credit and the US Treasury - the largest issuer of securities in the world.
Unlike many other terrorist attacks, these attacks killed people whose family, friends and neighbors understand how these financial systems work. Victim families, friends and the residents of the communities directly harmed can calculate who made money on 9-11 profiteering. They can trace the flow of money into the 2004 Presidential campaign coffers from the profits your supporters made as a result of 9-11 profiteering. They can calculate how 9-11 profiteering connects to the financing and silence of corporate media.
Those personally impacted and the global researchers they network with have the intellectual power and personal courage to ask and answer, "Cui Bono?" (Who Benefits?) They understand that your success as National Security Advisor is as a direct result of your failure to stop 9-11. They can see how your lies about 9-11 made money for the investment syndicate that put you in power and for the buyers of US Treasury securities who are so richly paid to finance the US military, intelligence and enforcement apparatus and the defense contractors and oil interests it serves.
All the campaign ads in the world can not now convince the American people that you have their best interests at heart.
Point #3: You are going down.
The richest and most powerful people in the world pay for performance. They pay you to make the US governmental apparatus look legitimate while they use it to centralize economic and political power. That means they need liars who are better at lying than you.
The myth that you had no idea that Americans deserved to be warned about the risks of flying or planes being used as weapons is now in the dust heap with the notion that the United States attacked Iraq and our soldiers are dying to protect us from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Your lies of 9-11 - like your lies about the Iraqi war - have been profitable for the military-banking complex you represent. These lies, however, have not misled the crowd. The American people and global citizens are looking for the truth. We demand the changes that will give meaning and honor to those who died on 9-11 and in the ensuing wars. We demand an end to further bloodshed. We demand a refund of all that you and your backers have stolen from those of us who remain alive.
Point #4: You are guilty of criminal gross negligence.
If you want to catch a terrorist today, you need look no further than your own mirror.
Many Americans gather this weekend to give thanks that Jesus died for our sins and gave us the covenant of grace. In the spirit of our Lord's crucifixion and resurrection, may God have mercy on your soul.
Sincerely Yours,
Catherine Austin Fitts
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I
President
Solari, Inc
URL: https://able2know.org/topic/22879-1
oasis
(49,410 posts)surrounding the events of 9/11 should haunt her for the rest of her public life.
Raster
(20,998 posts)... much more. I know *KNOW* that certain members of the Bush2* Administration were not only aware that Bin Laden was determined to attack the United States, but that they LIHOP.
oasis
(49,410 posts)a lying sack of shit, pretending she had no clue it could happen. The MSM failed to hold her to account.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...it's Rice with her big ol' toothy grin exclaiming that if they'd only known the flight number and seating assignment in advance they would have been able to do something.
Cha
(297,728 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)2naSalit
(86,804 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)by starting a war against the wrong country and on false pretenses that isn't really over yet and has resulted in the formation of ISIS. And oh, yeah, "Trump knows the importance of alliances and (she) expects him to forge ties with democracies around the world." Sure. By insulting Australia, Mexico, Germany and Sweden (Sweden!), pissing on NATO, annoying Canada, and shoving the PM of Montenegro to get a better position for a photo-op, while sucking up to Russia and lauding autocrats like Putin, Duterte and Erdogan. Such a great way to forge ties with democracies around the world.
It's been a long time, but once again I get to say, Fuck you, Condi.
Afromania
(2,771 posts)Cha
(297,728 posts)under her rock to spew such glaring garbage after she was among those responsible for ISIS.
2naSalit
(86,804 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Lying? Cheating? Pussygrabbing?
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Laundering money for Russian mobsters? Grabbing women by the crotch? Running scams like a fake university? Constantly lying? I could go on, but why bother? I can only conclude that Rice is positioning herself for a lucrative featherbedding job with a swell title.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Lying and doubling down on the lie is also an American value that Trump stands for. Condi, you are so RIGHT!
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Condi Rice Talk about irrelevant!
DK504
(3,847 posts)Her opinion doesn't count for shit.
"You heard President Trump say, for instance, after the Syrian chemical attack, we can't let that stand. What he was saying was the president of the United States can't let that stand."
When President Obama tried to go against the Syrian psycho the Repukes went bat shit crazy. She has always been part of the problem.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)Sorry for the National Review link, but it quotes her directly - http://www.weeklystandard.com/condi-rice-blasts-obama-on-weakness-leadership/article/786123 (Note this after the 2013 atrocities that President Obama sought Congressional support to act against. Rice was clearly in the John McCain camp that disagreed because Obama wanted to do too little.)
She is a super hawk -- during the Bush administration, the Obama administration, and now. she is consistent - even if consistently wrong.
Note this is to stress how dangerous she is, not to defend her as not a hypocrite. Imagine if Trump is impeached and Pence nominates her for VP. That could be a nightmare situation.
deminks
(11,017 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)I guess she is ignoring his disastrous trip that left open the question of how supportive we were of NATO and left the US behind as the G7 became the G6 standing solidly together on things like the Paris Accord with the US on the outside. It was interesting that this was visually seen when the other leaders strolled the scenic 700 yards at the end of the conference and Trump followed in a golf cart! (The healthiest President ever??)
Her comment on Syria is similar leads me to fear that he has found common ground with the neocons. This after an election where he labeled Clinton as too hawkish and took positions less hawkish than Sanders and Obama!
shraby
(21,946 posts)BigMin28
(1,180 posts)the old bull dog is still lying.
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Hey, Condi! Don't you have some shoe shopping to do? You vile woman.
A pox on Stanford University for re-hiring this putrid waste of subhuman flesh. You have lost my respect as an academic institution for do in so.
JHan
(10,173 posts)a kennedy
(29,711 posts)kimbutgar
(21,211 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Policies and his presidency aside, I can see how someone who is easily gullible could be sucked into his Connecticut Cowboy vortex. He was a cartoon, a caricature, and there is no shortage of people who'll sign up for that.
Trump, on the other hand, is unapologetically crude, vulgar, offensive, and corrupt. I'm not sure what kind of cabinet post she might be eyeballing, but I hope she finds selling her soul worth it.
MiddleClass
(888 posts)This Lying bitch was the precursor to alternative facts Conway
she said no one told her that airplanes were to be used as missiles, and she was warned of that from the intelligence community, just months before 9/11.
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WoonTars
(694 posts)...it still pisses me off that she got away with this blatant lie...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Your opinion is worthless.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)growth in the intervening years.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Mostly she's trying to make a case that GW wasn't all that bad, even though USNews and World Report (a conservative magazine) listed him TIED for 10th worst, along with Nixon.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,794 posts)Sorry, Condi! But Donald Trump DOES NOT represent American values.
Anyone who cheats on and lies to his wives, cheats contractors out of their earned pay for services rendered, decides not to pay back Loans, bankrupts his businesses on purpose, has an attraction to his daughter, refuses to divest from his business empire while President, will not disclose his Tax Returns, violates the US Constitution and the 1969 Nepotism Law, DOES NOT fall into any category of having values.
You are barking up the wrong tree, lady.
Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)Intellectual conservatives have tended to stay away from the Trump disaster.
delisen
(6,044 posts)What she says is significant because she is so closely involved with their industry and had been brought out by Trump/Tillerson to back his confirmation as secretary of state.
They want those sanctions against Russia lifted now.
The whole world can now be powered by renewable energy and Rice/Tillerson/Putin want to prevent that clean future and keep us smeared with oil. It is how they make their money and rule the world.
Trying to present Trump as a human rights president in order accomplish her big oil agenda is despicable.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Maybe she is desiring a position in his lieministration
Fatemah2774
(245 posts)She was once a respected woman of color who happened to be Republican. Then she went to the convention and became a token while they used her. Now she is being used again to justify this garbage.
Values. Which values? Rascism, misogyny, xenophobia, fiscal inequality, misuse of justice? Yeah he represents that.
mnhtnbb
(31,405 posts)Or maybe Bushie boy needs a long visit from his office wife.
Just go away.
WoonTars
(694 posts)Good to know...
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)MineralMan
(146,333 posts)Things have not worked out for her as she hoped, I think, and it is creating a quiet rage inside her.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Vinca
(50,310 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)The question is who......
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)n/t...
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)She's job hunting! She and trumpetts are all super lambes!(Spanish New Mexican colloquial verbiage for a kissass.)
Solomon
(12,319 posts)to get a job.
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)Like pussy grabbing, money laundering, and tax evasion!!!11!!!!11!!
BeyondGeography
(39,383 posts)Doesn't care. Just wants back into the power game.
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)enid602
(8,658 posts)Condi always had questionable taste in white men.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Trump is a un-American racist, fascist, and bigot.
moondust
(20,006 posts)Flattery works.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)She's job hunting! She and trumpetts are all L.A.M.B.E.S. ( Spanish New Mexican verbiage for asskisser. ) They all know who has the poder, or power, so lining up to kisshisass.
My grandfather had this dicho ( a Spanish proverb) 'we know los gringos are going to screw us, yet when it's your own people that does their dirty work for them or are complicit, then there is no other say to describe them than as traitors.' They have done and continue to do spew hate propaganda and implement discriminatory policies. People, he said [my grandfather] who really should know better; people you have themselves, parents, family, community who been the target of bigotry, enslavedment , rape, killing; had land and resources stolen as native people; criminalizing all of us... all in the name of white supremacy while hiding behind Christianity hewould add, all hypocrites he d say...his soft blue eyes saddened from the pain of bigotry He experienced. Yet, Nothing has change in 2017, it's only gotten worse wiith elfeogringo ( expresident of Mexico, Vicente Fox' name for eltrump) and it's going to get even worse, we know that instinctively and are bracing ourselves for the worst.
Yet, when a black or brown person is a republicans, or just plain loco which is one in the same, is not on the side of justice because We know better, are better then that because we live it everyday, then they are worse than losgringos they are traitors to their jente people was my grandfather observation...I think it still holds true today. How eltrumpf got the Black and Hispanic and even the Muslim vote is truly ironic -- like poor whitefolk, they voted against their own interests. Well, I can only say that there are bad apples in every bushel.