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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:22 PM
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Rice says Iraq must not be given up to 'merciless killers'

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0930RiceTerrorism30-ON.html

Rice says Iraq must not be given up to 'merciless killers'

Associated Press


PRINCETON, N.J. - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday the United States must not abandon its mission in Iraq and Americans must realize the consequences of ceding the country to an enemy she called savage.

Rice also told students at Princeton University that the Bush administration's focus on the spread of democracy in the Middle East is both a moral obligation and a tough-minded response to global terrorism.

"From Cairo and Ramallah to Beirut and Baghdad, they are now finding new spaces of freedom," Rice said. advertisement

On Iraq, Rice took the unusual step of noting the number of U.S. troops killed during the war - nearly 2,000.
"The nation will always honor their names and their sacrifices," Rice said.

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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:24 PM
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1. What might the consequences of ceding the country be?
Hmmmm. Civil War where everyday tens and hundreds and innocent people are being killed? The creation of new and emboldened terrorists? Increased hatred toward America?

No, can't let that happen.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:24 PM
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2. Too late.
Blackwater mercs and negroponte death squads are already there.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:26 PM
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3. What is the US mission and could some of its actions be termed savage?
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:26 PM
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4. More Orwellian babble. nt
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:27 PM
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5. 175 protesters outside the bldg at 3PM!!!
--Blue in Princeton
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:56 PM
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17. very cool!
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 04:13 PM by leftchick
I hope she saw and heard them. CONDI THE KILLER!



U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, delivers a keynote address on Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ., as part of the 75th anniversary of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. (AP Photo/Jose F. Moreno)
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:57 PM
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18. Did Dr. Rice stop and talk with them?
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 03:58 PM by downstairsparts
Although I've never seen any evidence of it, she's supposed to be so brilliant and all, you'd think she'd jump at the chance to exercise that briliant mind of hers with the brainy Princeton protesters as a relief, if nothing else, from her dull, stupid, dim boss and sometime "husband" George Bush.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:59 PM
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19. We called her out, but i think she was too busy regurgitating
propaganda inside.
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:09 PM
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20. I'm sure the energy vibes you were sending penetrated that reptilian flesh
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 04:10 PM by downstairsparts
I'm so glad to hear this. That's a lot of protesters.

Thanks to all for keeping the pressure on.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:28 PM
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6. Good. Is she hinting it's time for the United States to get out? NT
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gasperc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:29 PM
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7. fuck you bitch
condi you ignorant slut
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:29 PM
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8. Merciless killers
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 03:32 PM by paineinthearse

like rummy?
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dkofos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:30 PM
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9. Isn't that who we got it from???
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earthboundmisfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:30 PM
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10. WTF is a "space of freedom"?
What an odd thing to say.
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:41 PM
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14. I'm starting to wonder, ... what is "freedom".
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:31 PM
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11. What's a merciful killer?
Would she consider Conquistadors or Crusaders or the US Cavalry during the Indian Wars merciful killers?
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:39 PM
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12. Well, the death penalty
must be merciful, i guess, based on this random neuron firing she likes to call thinking.

Pulling the plug on Schiavo, not.

If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.
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deek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:42 PM
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15. don't forget the mercenaries in Iraq eom
.
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arewenotdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:57 PM
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26. No, not at all.
"Saviors" would be the term...saving the gawd-fearing Christian white folk from the heathen "savages" (if too late to save the souls of the savages).
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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:39 PM
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13. Way too late.
The Bushists still have to pretend Iraq is turning into a peaceful Western democracy... so long as we don't lost our will and resolve.

As anyone who is following events knows, that is complete bullshit, and the only question is when does the civil war start, sooner, or later?
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 03:48 PM
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16. The US military is already doing its "merciless killings" in Iraq
I guess we don't want any competition when it comes to slaughtering a civilian population, over 100,000 civilians have been killed by US since the war began.
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Anywho6 Donating Member (458 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:33 PM
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21.  "Merciless killers." As Phoebe said, "Well, hello, Kettle, you're black!"
:crazy:

Peace...
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:39 PM
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22. Recommended reading:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4934050

It's a MUST.


-----------------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:40 PM
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23. There are more than two options, Condi.
Us being there, or ceding the country to terrorists aren't the only choices. An actual DIPLOMAT would be working on other scenarios to present to an actual LEADER who could contemplate more than one thing at a time.

But then, you are really only the head of the propaganda department, and your contract does not include consideration of any ideas other than those handed to you by Dick Cheney.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:48 PM
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24. Does she mean Bush and Rumsfeld?
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 04:53 PM
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25. Isn't that us? Murderers, rapists, torturers? nt ...
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 04:54 PM by cassiepriam
So much projection of our evil ways onto others.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:10 PM
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27. It's those "merciless killers" at the Pentagon that has spawned any
insurgency in Iraq.

And then there are those Brits in wigs and Iraqi clothing....
Sort of wolves in sheeps clothing. More of those 'merciless killers' Condi is referring to?
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:17 PM
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28. Merciless Killers? Like the US/ Blackwater mercenaries?
Perhaps someone can explain to Rice the difference between tough minded and pig headed.

And "new spaces of freedom" is GOP speak for the fact that the coalition forces don't control a single village or town in their entirety. Yeah, there's a 20 foot stretch on the road between Baghdad and the airport that hasn't been the site of an IED ----yet.
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fob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 07:05 PM
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29. What part of the "Flypaper plan" does kindasleazy NOT understand?
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 07:18 PM by fob
Hey you lying skank, the Flypaper plan equals giving Eyerak to the "terraists" so's we don't have to fight them here, remember?
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 07:20 PM
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30. Did she mean "Iraq must not be given up BY merciless killers?"
That would be the US, right?
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 07:43 PM
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31. I Think That's the Exact Message the Bombers Are Saying
and as for merciless killers, just look in the mirror, Condi, and the Oval Office.
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demobrit Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:05 AM
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32. Rice warns against quitting Iraq

The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, has said that America must not abandon its mission in Iraq

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4299462.stm
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OKDem08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:05 AM
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33. yeah, right
it's such a 'noble cause'...how convenient for her that she doesn't have to actually experience the debacle she has helped to create!
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:05 AM
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34. Two cows are standing in line outside a meat packing plant.
One cow says; "I hear only hamburger ever comes out of this place."

The other cow replies; "Yes, but we must carry on so we honor all those who came before us."
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:06 AM
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36. That describes the situation in Iraq very well.
"Two cows are standing in line outside a meat packing plant."
One cow says; "I hear only hamburger ever comes out of this place."

The other cow replies; "Yes, but we must carry on so we honor all those who came before us."



I'm passing this on to 'everyone on my e-mail list' or 'everyone I know'. Who says anoying chain e-mails have to be long and full of graphics? Short and pithy works too. :patriot:
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:06 AM
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35. Here's your helmet, vest, boots, and gun, Condi.
And don't let the door hit you in the behind.
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:06 AM
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37. she must 've not looked at herself in the mirror ...


or she would've seen herself and her bushie boy as two of those barbaric killers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the nerve of that woman!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:06 AM
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38. "Mission" my remote.
The corporatists always try to make themselves sound like Fr. Junipero Serra.
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necso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 06:06 AM
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39. The only plausible justification
that the neocons have left for staying in Iraq is that things will get worse if we leave (danger, terror, boogiemen, land sharks, mushroom clouds, etc).

But it's the overall net-effect on our national interests that matters, and I see a big net-plus from withdrawing. (It's also possible that once they realize that they're on their own militarily, the Iraqis will do things differently -- or not.) Moreover, I see the downside risk becoming greater the longer we stay, not less.

Of course, the neocons would (and will) claim something different. And as long as people don't hold the neocons responsible for the failures brought on by their deceptions and delusions -- and judge neocon rhetoric based on its track record of failures, as opposed to falling repeatedly for the spin-of-the-moment (often full of intangible assertions or assertions (like assertions about the future) that can't be disproven with the facts available to skeptics) -- then this country will never solve its problems, and we will remain headed for disaster.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 11:06 AM
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41. Germany must not abandon her mission to Christianize Europe!
Condi Rice is Josef Goebbels in black face and in drag!


Goebbels
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 10:53 AM
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40. Since it rightfully belongs to the Kompassionate Killers
I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchiefs
Before his streaming eyes.

"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none—
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
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tainowarrior Donating Member (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 11:09 AM
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42. ...and that's why I'm calling for the U.S. forces to pull out immediately!
:sarcasm:
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 11:10 AM
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43. We agree! Get BLACKWATER out of there! n/t
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MODemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 05:22 PM
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44. Why is Condoleezza often called Dr. Rice?
Seriously, I really don't know why she has earned that title. Can my DUer friends tell me? :think: :think: :shrug:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 05:32 PM
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45. Soemtimes I really wonder if she's been
playing the piano and ice-skating in the 90s and 00s as well.
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