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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:28 PM
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Rice will tell European allies to "back off" over issue. (secret prisons)
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4497006.stm

Rice 'to talk tough on CIA claim'

Rice has refused to confirm or deny reports about secret jails
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to go on the offensive over EU concerns that the US has operated secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe.

According to media reports in both the US and UK, Ms. Rice will tell European allies to "back off" over the issue.

Last month the EU wrote to Ms Rice expressing misgivings over the alleged jails and reports CIA planes carrying detainees had stopped in EU countries.

Ms Rice said she would respond to the EU before a visit to Europe on Monday.

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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:29 PM
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1. Good luck on that one, chocolate Olive Oil.
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 11:45 AM
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12. no offense...
but comes off a little racist.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 03:00 PM
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14. yeah, it might sound that way
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 03:00 PM by AtomicKitten
but I've always thought she looked like Olive Oil and perhaps picked an offensive adjective. I apologize to those it offended. I'm not racist, I justdespise this torture-loving biotch.
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 10:03 PM
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15. i'm sure you're not...
just sounded a little.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:31 PM
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2. I hate this woman.
I hope the EU tells her to go fuck herself--that they will NOT "shut up" over this issue, because it happens to be rather serious.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:15 AM
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10. I hate her more than you
:D

She's a two-bit sycophant
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:21 AM
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11. some even more...
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:36 PM
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3. Memo to Condi:
When you're in Europe, don't MENTION THE WAR. They're kind of sensitive over things like CONCENTRATION CAMPS ...
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:40 PM
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5. BACK OFF?
just who the hell does she think she is? we don't rule the world... yet.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:39 PM
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4. they could care less about what she has to say
europe will just wait bush out...
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:43 PM
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6. what Condi forgets is that the US receives most of its intelligence
Edited on Mon Dec-05-05 10:44 PM by tocqueville
from European countries. And this intelligence is RELIABLE because not obtained through torture, but through classical police work and infiltration...

the European countries participate in the war on terror assuming that the US plays by the rules. Violating their national sovereignty is not a good start..

This stuff is growing here and telling Europeans to "back off" won't do any good to the already horrible image the US have in Europe...

The US played on internal grudges when the war started. Some nations, specially in the East tried to play the US card for political and - money reasons. But they did it against the will of their populations. Today it's far from sure that those nations would play the same card again if put under EU pressure. The US is seen as a loser, not a winner. Who wants to bet on a loser ?

Condi's speech risks to even more alienate the US diplomacy
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:50 PM
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7. Condi Visits Secret CIA Camps in Europe, Tells Brits to "Back Off"
Condi Visits Secret CIA Camps in Europe, Tells Brits to "Back Off"
Dec 5 2005 by Ross Bender


Vote now!
Do YOU think the CIA is running torture prisons in New Europe?
Yes, only because Old Europe wanted too much cash
No, because New Europe is new!
Maybe, if the New York Times ever writes about it


US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited secret CIA detention camps in Europe this week and told EU heads of state to "mind their own f***ing business." Her tour comes after growing opposition in the UK and on the continent to the American practices of extreme rendition and ghost detention.

At Buckingham Palace over tea and kippers with the Queen, Sir Mick Jagger and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Rice told Sir Mick that she was a "big fan" and particularly liked his song "Under My Thumbscrews." She also informed Straw that he "can eat my knickers," pointedly rejecting his mild-mannered criticism of American torture practices in Europe.

After tea Rice took British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a short stroll in St. James Park on his leash.

In Romania Rice visited the Mihail Kogalniceanu Dark Site, where Muslim prisoners have secretly been held since the beginning of the Afghanistan war. Rice inspected the facility, where naked Arab terrorists are held in cells maintained at constant temperatures of 49 degrees Fahrenheit and subjected to 24/7 broadcasts of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."

Saying that she wanted to be sure that prisoners were "cozy" and being well-treated, she entered several cells and personally delivered fruit baskets from President Bush, and also playfully twisted the nipples of one or two Muslims hanging from the ceiling with CIA-approved steel pliers.


snip


http://www.deadbrain.com/politics/article_2005_12_05_0101.php
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-05-05 10:55 PM
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8. WOW!!
lost for words.
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SONUVABUSH Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:12 AM
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9. I think....
Europe will hate this hardliner wench more than most of us do.
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Hyernel Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:39 PM
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13. EU authorities should arrest Eva Brown on the spot.
and take her shoes away in the pokey!
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 10:08 PM
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16. don't go there
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