World awaits Rice's definition of danger

I liked the title. :-)


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Apr. 4, 2004. 09:04 AM

"We know from history that when tyrannies are prevented from expanding they often retreat and decay."

— Samuel Berger

TORONTO STAR

World awaits Rice's definition of danger

JENNIFER WELLS

Apr. 4, 2004.

In December, 1998, then U.S. National Security Adviser Samuel Berger gave a speech at Stanford University. The topic at hand was Saddam Hussein. As Berger phrased it, Saddam's "reign of terror inside Iraq and intimidation outside Iraq have broader implications for all our interests in (the) region."

It was in America's national interest, said Berger, "to prevent Saddam from rebuilding his military capability, including weapons of mass destruction, and from using that arsenal to move against his neighbours or his own people."


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At the time, Condoleezza Rice was provost at Stanford, a post she held for six years until June, 1999. The job is administrative by definition, and budget balancing considered a mark of achievement. But Rice could also claim high academic accomplishment — the Soviet Union a specialty — and such glittering resumé boosters as her concert-pitch piano-playing skills.

A little more than two years later, Rice emerged firmly on the national stage as assistant to the President for national security affairs, or, as it's more commonly referred to, national security adviser, the job once held by Berger and, more famously, Henry Kissinger (1969-1975).



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"I'm just always watching out for him," she said of the prez, "and making sure he's got the right papers and, you know, that he's going to say exactly what he wants to say."

That's a quote worth reading twice.



ROTFLMAO, I'll say. Besides the obvious, she sounds like a secretary.

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more.....

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081034705883&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

OH MY GOD.

This sounds like a devoted servant, yes? This is the world of our Bush. He's so rich he even has people to tell him what he WANTS.

http://www.wgoeshome.com