Appraisal of Rice unflattering in biography

Appraisal of Rice unflattering in biography
Friday, December 07, 2007
By Elizabeth Bennett

Shortly before Christmas 2002, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and President George Bush were alone in the Oval Office. They had talked endlessly about Iraq, but Bush had never asked her point-blank for her opinion. Suddenly he surprised her:

"Do you think we should do this?"

"Yes," she told the president.

Three months later, America's lengthy war began, and Rice's part in promoting it may be the biggest mistake of her life, reports Elisabeth Bumiller in this fascinating biography of the first black female secretary of state.

"For Rice, Iraq would always be a bleeding wound," Bumiller writes. "As national security adviser (in Bush's first term), Rice had "missed vital clues to the September 11 attacks, enabled the hawks to go to war with Iraq, and aggressively promoted the threat of a 'mushroom cloud' from weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07341/839826-42.stm

Adorable that she's painted as inept, mistaken, maybe even negligent.

Get to the part where they admit she's a lying, deliberate, criminal.

when they made a major screw-up? :freak:

Maybe the RW is working overtime to polish the GWB "legacy." On the other hand, Rice should care what will be said about her role in the murder of a million Iraqis. She's got the $$millions in her bank and crying all the way!