Rice Hearing to Lay Out Bush Foreign Policy

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration begins to lay out its second term foreign policy agenda this week when Condoleezza Rice undergoes two days of hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

There is little doubt that Rice, for four years President Bush's national security adviser and now the first African-American woman nominated to be secretary of state, will be confirmed. This is expected as soon as Wednesday.

But she must first answer questions from senators on topics ranging from her role in shaping America's response to al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to the Iraq war and its chaotic aftermath, Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and the U.S. response to the Asian tsunami, Senate sources say.

Although Rice, 50, has spent years in government -- including as an adviser to Bush's father -- this will be her first Senate confirmation, a ritual that could be grueling.
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"There's a pent-up curiosity about her, a lot of questions about how she thinks about the world," the Democratic aide said.
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...the Democratic aide said: "I would see no retreat from Bush One. ... I hear all this talk about a kinder, gentler foreign policy. I don't see reason to think that."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7337171&pageNumber=1

[Cocoa]

1. Rice is not going to lay out anything

lie about, maybe...

[Vincardog]

2. sign here to demand some answers

Help Sen. Boxer demand the answers to serious questions about The incompetence and corruption in the White House
More than 10,000 Americans have already joined together with you and me in demanding the truth from Condoleezza Rice. But to make the greatest impact at the confirmation hearings next week, we need thousands more.

So we need to DU this put a few thousand signatures out there now and kick it.
Thanks


<http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/dkske5rhjm3bt8>

[MsMagnificent]

4. *kick*

[Wilms]

3. Ya think Dianne Feinstein is a bit conflicted???

Dianne Feinstein will "introduce" Rice for the confirmation hearing. Boxer is livid.

What could DiFi be thinking?

Glad you asked. Here.

-snip-

Insiders told the Nelson Report that Zoellick decided to take the position on the assumption that he would be the logical choice for secretary of state if Rice left to return to academic life or run for the Senate next year against the Democratic incumbent, Dianne Feinstein, or if a Republican candidate wins the 2008 presidential election.

-more-

<http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26937>

Of course, there's DiFi's hubby's $650MM contract in Afghanistan.

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/27/BA284459.DTL>

Perhaps it's time CA sets another milestone and elects a Green to the Senate.

[Just Me]

5. She knows better,...as do the rest of the neocons.

If they tell the truth about their real foreign policy agenda, they know they would get little to no support for their imperialistic endeavors.

Seriously, how many Americans would support what may be tantamount to inciting a world war, with our own country being the instigator? How many Americans would give their blood and treasure in order to advance the interest of corporatist power-mongers?

The neocons are NOT going to be truthful with anyone.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Bush has a foreign policy???

ROFLMAO

Signed the petition...now to :kick:

[AlCzervik]

8. yes, invading countries and killin folks.

[Az_lefty]

7. Same old crap. There is no transition of power !!!

:kick:

[Redstone]

9. Lay Out Bush Foreign Policy

Simple, concise, only one sentence:

Kill them all; let God sort them out."

Redstone

[Redstone]

10. Sorry, I oversimplified.

It's actually:

"You lookin' at me? Yeah, you. You want a piece o' me? Huh? Who else wants a piece o' me? Huh? Huh?

Redstone