White Rice Fried

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51224-2003Jul26?language=printer
By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 27, 2003; Page A01


Just weeks ago, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, made a trip to the Middle East that was widely seen as advancing the peace process. There was speculation that she would be a likely choice for secretary of state, and hopes among Republicans that she could become governor of California and even, someday, president.

But she has since become enmeshed in the controversy over the administration's use of intelligence about Iraq's weapons in the run-up to war. She has been made to appear out of the loop by colleagues' claims that she did not read or recall vital pieces of intelligence. And she has made statements about U.S. intelligence on Iraq that have been contradicted by facts that later emerged.

The remarks by Rice and her associates raise two uncomfortable possibilities for the national security adviser. Either she missed or overlooked numerous warnings from intelligence agencies seeking to put caveats on claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to be false.

Most prominent is her claim that the White House had not heard about CIA doubts about an allegation that Iraq sought uranium in Africa before the charge landed in Bush's State of the Union address on Jan. 28; in fact, her National Security Council staff received two memos doubting the claim and a phone call from CIA Director George J. Tenet months before the speech. Various other of Rice's public characterizations of intelligence documents and agencies' positions have been similarly cast into doubt.


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no matter how you slice it, condi must go. the longer she stays, the more of a drag she'll be on chimpy's rapidly-dwindling credibility.

She's trying to out-lie the liar. Wow! She's got her work cut out for her.

If so, good for her. Keep on truckin', Condi!

The lower that false credibility gets dragged, the better - it's going to have to be beyond blindingly obvious before a lot of Americans will wake up and smell what they've been shoveling.

At least we can be thankful we don't have to listen to Rice on numerous Sunday morning talk shows anymore. Every week it used to be either her or Colin Powell ad nauseam.

McLaughlin group this week played clips of a couple of her appearances......she's not a good liar and it's quite apparent she's in way over her head.

We might as well have had a Canadian Affairs Expert. I mean, for fucks sake, Russia is an ally and any President with a modicum of intelligence, or a thimble full of savoir-faire could handle that relationship!

Oh, nevermind.



bush* is a national disgrace.

Her expertise is only useful when we consider that Russia is a major impediment for 'Western' control of South Asian energy resources (oil and natural gas). The most consistent 'foreign policy' theme of the Busholinis is corporatization/privatization and control of the national (populist) resources of energy-rich nations and territories through which such resources must be shipped/piped. These nations are in a Russian "sphere of influence".

It's a shame that a woman has too take the heat for what the Cowboy in Chief has done. Look, she says nothing more than what her handler's have her say.

Ya know, it just makes me cry to think she'll never become governor of California. <grin>

do I smell a wiff of Watergate here? First they went after the presidential advisers and staff, then cabinet members and finally the big prize, Richard Nixon, himself. Vice President Spiro Agnew had been forced to resign before this for taking bribes, but it is important to note that the members of Nixon's circle were being chipped away at one by one not only by Democrats but Republicans too.

Website:http://www.watergate.info/

Book: "All The President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?TTL=All+The+President%27s+Men&userid=2UN9ZQX7YJ&sourceid=00404021846022305516&bfdate=07%2D27%2D2003+12%3A23%3A06

If his own party is beginning to turn on him, starting with Condi Rice, stay tuned for presidential coverup opera and finally the grand impeachment finale.