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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:27 PM
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Yeah, right: "Rice Offered to Resign Following Bush's 2004 Re-Election"

Rice Offered to Resign Following Bush's 2004 Re-Election
Monday, October 02, 2006

By James Rosen

E-MAIL STORY RESPOND TO EDITOR PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she offered to resign as President Bush’s National Security Adviser as part of a broader house-cleaning following the president’s re-election in 2004.

"I did tell the president at one point that I thought maybe all of us should go, because we had fought two wars and we ... had the largest terrorist attack in American history," Rice disclosed Sunday night while en route to the Mideast.

"And when he asked me to be secretary of state, I said, 'I think maybe — maybe you need new people.' " She did not say what the president's immediate response was.

Fielding questions aboard her plane, Rice strenuously denied a claim in Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial," that her relations with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once deteriorated to the point where Bush had to intervene to ensure Rumsfeld would return Rice's calls.

...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217119,00.html
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:29 PM
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1. ...
:nopity:
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:32 PM
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4. Double....
:nopity: :nopity:

Rotten Rice is bad for your health.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:30 PM
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2. In many transitions, ALL cabinet officers submit a resignation letter. nt
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:32 PM
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3. Uh, they ALL tender their resignations after an elections, it's SOP
The Dunce declines to accept them. It's a time-honored tradition.

So.....BFD, eh?
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:52 PM
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7. shhh. don't tell her. more proof she doesn't know a dammned thing.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:32 PM
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5. a kernel of conscience--resignation letter and largest terrorist attack in
history in the same thought
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 03:37 PM
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6. Promote, not get rid of, those who do a helluva job
Edited on Mon Oct-02-06 03:38 PM by indepat
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