Rice Confronts Rising Iraq Casualty Toll

[peterh]

US Rice: Nothing Of Value Gained Without Sacrifice

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031110_1557.html


WASHINGTON (AP)--With the Bush administration, confronting a rising casualty
toll in Iraq, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Monday that
"nothing of value has ever been won without sacrifice."
Rice also said a surge of attacks against U.S. forces doesn't represent a
return to major combat operations.
"Major combat operations have not resumed in Iraq by really any stretch of the
imagination," Rice said. "What has happened is there are some elements of the
old regime that are making common cause with some foreign fighters in what I
think could classically be described as an insurgency or insurgency plus
terrorism."
Rice sat in the White House briefing room before a bank of television cameras
to answer questions from local network affiliates. It was part of the
administration's strategy to reach beyond the Washington media - what President
George W. Bush calls "the filter" - to deliver the White House message across
the country.
"He feels acutely every loss," Rice said. "He understands that he is asking
the American armed forces and American families to make the great sacrifices.
"But the fact is that nothing of value has ever been won without sacrifice,"
Rice told NBC affiliate KING in Seattle.
She spoke on the eve of Veterans Day, when Bush is to make a speech honoring
the sacrifices of American forces in Iraq and in earlier wars.



American soldiers are being sacrificed for the greater value in what….Bushco?
Where’s that middle finger thingie when you really need it.

[Scott Lee]

1. Why is it "terrorist" to force an invader out of your country?

No one seems to be able to answer that.

[Don_G]

2. What's To Be Insurgent About?

Just because the US invaded their country and is trying to sell off everything Iraq has of value to outsiders.

What's "loss" to a psychopath like Dimbo anyway?

[Swede]

3. And we all know how much BFEE value oil.

[madrchsod]

4. the" unsticker"

cleaning up her master`s soiled diapers .really-what are they promising this woman?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Rice needs to suit up and get in the game in Iraq...

...so that she will see the "sacrifice" up close and personal.

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[lumpy]

20. Uncalled for sentiment.

nt

[Jazzgirl]

6. Sleazy must be the one who came up with

the word "insurgent." Call 'em what they are....resistors and freedom fighters!

Jazzgirl

[opihimoimoi]

7. Thats Bull shit and they know it/

We got a lott of things without sending our Troops to die for it.

How bout the Louisiana Purchase??

And didn't we get Alaska from the Russians for cheap??


The point is: Yess we fought and bled when we had to in our Nations Past, and then sometimes, we didn't have to bleed, just spend. How interesting we now in the Spend and BLEED Mode. Damn, twice the pain and nothing to gain

Come, we find the doctor for the tourniquet(darn those French terms, :o) )

[mbperrin]

17. Excellent examples!

How about the spend and spend and spend and bleed and bleed and bleed mode?

[pinkpops]

8. so what is Condi's sacrifice?

her career in the private sector I suppose

[mike1963]

10. You can bet she has plenty of offers waiting. Maybe another tanker with

her name on it...

[gulliver]

9. Nothing Of Value Gained

... so why the sacrifice? People have sacrificed, but that doesn't mean that what they were sold was of value.

[cosmicdot]

12. "a return to major combat operations", I think that was called ...

"shock and awe"

it's truly tragic when Consleazy starts just making stuff up

perhaps she should focus on "exit"

I don't know if I want to know what she sacrificed to get her name on a tanker - although the 'value' of that might be measured in souls sold

[bleedingheart]

13. Why must our Valuable children be sacrificed for Oil

[MasonJar]

14. Rice is a lying idiot

Rice is a lying idiot. She blatantly attests things that are obviously untrue.

[GoldenOldie]

15. "sacrifice"?????

The only ones that are being sacrificed are the military and their families. "He feels acutely every loss," - what a load of crap!
He just feels so bad that he reduces the benefits that they were promised. This administration couldn't tell the truth if they had to answer before Jesus Christ himself. They labeled Gore a liar, yet the so-called media/journalists give these traitors free rein.

[LiberalTexan]

16. He feels acutely every loss. That's why

he cries in the war room and doesn't attend even ONE of the fallen soldier's funerals. Yeah, I see how bad you are hurting.
You are probably still heaving a sigh of relief that you never actually had to fight for your country.

[kayell]

18. Sure "He feels acutely every loss"

I can see how broken up he is.



* has no idea what loss is.

[Skittles]

19. SHE MAKES ME SICK

I'd really like to know what she thinks in her private moments, covering for such a f***ing incompetent thieving SOB.

[otohara]

21. For Condi... Oil = Value

she makes me sick too skittles

[yellowcanine]

22. Did any of the "journalists" ask

what "of value" was being won?