Rice calls Iraq worth the investment and says U.S. can win

[Newsjock]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/21/america/NA_GEN_US_Rice_AP_Interview.php

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told The Associated Press Thursday that Iraq is "worth the investment" in American lives and dollars.

The top U.S. diplomat said the United States can win in Iraq, although the war so far has been longer and more difficult than she had expected.

In an Associated Press interview, Rice was asked whether an additional $100 billion (€75.8 billion) the Pentagon wants for the Iraq and Afghan wars might amount to throwing good money after bad in Iraq.

"I don't think it's a matter of money," Rice said. "Along the way there have been plenty of markers that show that this is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor you will have a very different kind of Middle East."

[LisaM]

1. Worth it to WHOM?

Other than her rich oil cronies?

[timetoleave]

5. Wow what a telling statement..

she really has no clue, a lot of our problems there were caused by her.

[saigon68]

7. "WORTH IT" to the Corporate Leaders Halliburton Stockholders

Cheney's Family and anyone who has more than $10 Million.

They are rolling in dough.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Well, put her sorry ass on the ground in Fallujah

And clean out her bank accounts and investments, and let her invest it.

[bluerum]

3. What is the return? Besides the all the glory and honor of course.

What do we get? What do the Iraqi's get? How have we improved the world? What is this ultimately going to yield?

At this point, I think we deserve a concrete clearly delineated plan that shows an ROI and a net gain in some way manner or form.

The rhetoric is wearing thin and there are only so many lies you tell before the base dwindles to nothing.

[Flarney]

4. What a sociopath! n/m

:banghead:

[Rex]

6. Whatever

Crawl back under your rock, you fucking snake in the grass!

[timetoleave]

8. I am new here ...

but I'll tell you this has really got me angry.

[Botany]

10. Welcome to DU

BTW Her comment pisses me off too.

[timetoleave]

12. Thanks feels like home..

[karynnj]

15. Welcome to DU

That has to be one of least compassionate thoughtful comments ever - and she is clearly not a diplomat at all - much less a good one. Even if she has that position. The Democrats who voted against her were right.

[Benhurst]

23. The Democrats who voted for the psychopath:

Democrats Yes

Baucus, Mont.; Biden, Del.; Bingaman, N.M.; Cantwell, Wash.; Carper, Del.; Clinton, N.Y. ; Conrad, N.D.; Corzine, N.J. ; Dodd, Conn. ; Dorgan, N.D.; Feingold, Wis.; Feinstein, Calif.; Inouye, Hawaii; Johnson, S.D.; Kohl, Wis.; Landrieu, La.; Leahy, Vt.; Lieberman, Conn.; Lincoln, Ark.; Mikulski, Md. ; Murray, Wash.; Nelson, Fla.; Nelson, Neb.; Obama, Ill.; Pryor, Ark.; Reid, Nev.; Rockefeller, W.Va.; Salazar, Colo.; Sarbanes, Md.; Schumer, N.Y.; Stabenow, Mich.; Wyden, Ore.

http://www.rasmusen.org/x/2005/01/26/the-rice-confirmation-vote-closest-ever/

This after her shameful performance as National Security Adviser.

[trogdor]

34. Not the worst thing they could have done.

What would it have gained us, under the circumstances, to attempt to block her? Who would we have gotten instead? Would that person be better or worse than Rice? Seriously.

[Benhurst]

38. That's a reasonable argument for not fillabustering her nomination.

But the Democrats could have voted against her, letting her win on a straight party-line vote. They shouldn't have voted for her confirmation.

Those who voted against her:

Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)

[leesa]

53. Sorry. No go. She flat out llied to Congress and everybody knew it.

There is NO EXCUSE for these people voting for her.

[Benhurst]

57. I agree. Certainly no one who calls himself or herself a Democrat

should have voted for the liar.

Unfortunately, most of the unelected pretender's nominees are liars.

[Tight_rope]

16. Welcome to DU timetoleave. You'll soon grow to love this place!

[karlrschneider]

35. We were all new here at some point. Welcome aboard!

:toast:

[colorado_ufo]

42. Welcome to DU!

[Skittles]

9. Skittles: Rice is a lying bush whore

she can f*** herself

[Name removed]

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[Tempest]

13. Link?

[Tight_rope]

14. WAIT...I have to pick up my teeth up from the floor!

:wow:

[tchunter]

17. quite the "investment"

she must own a lot of haliburton stock

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. broken buildings, bodies, banks, and more

quite the investment indeed.

[Supersedeas]

56. and....ah....boots (Condi Marcos)

[Quantess]

47. LOL! Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[patricia92243]

18. I thought her boss was a heartless beast. She makes him look good - well almost :(

[saigon68]

29. She is a BEAST check out her smile

[catmandu57]

52. That is the face of pure evil

I can just hear her hissing "How dare you question me"? As her forked tongue flicks over the words.
This bitch has reached beyond redemption, she needs to be fitted for a jacket, medicated heavily and tossed into a rubber room where she can do no more harm to anyone.

[saigon68]

54. She's "EVIL" alright

She used to work in a mirror factory

When she stared in a mirror and it didn't break it was sent to Sam Walton's store to be put on sale

[BootinUp]

19. Amazing how she makes that judgement so easily

when her ass isn't in the line of fire./sarcasm

[Disturbed]

21. Thanks to all those Dems that voted for her to be Sec.

of State. They should be real proud of themselves. :applause:

[Nihil]

48. Hey, you only voted for them ...

... Bush put his money into it ...

As someone else said on this thread, why didn't they learn from her
abyssmal performance as NSA instead of cheerfully approving her move
to the inner circle?

Might I venture to suggest that people who put their own political
motivation above the good of the country are not really people who
should be in the front-running for the Dem leadership?

[Megahurtz]

20. You Sick Woman! n/t

[teryang]

22. CVX, XOM and BP should pay for it themselves

...so far a trillion dollars and countless lives have been ruined and lost for a corporate colonial investment.

Cost benefit analysis says "sunk costs are no costs," past losses are no justification for future investments of a like kind. Lawrence Korb, Defense Management 101, Naval War College

Of course when you are using taxpayer revenues to fund your own private corporate adventurism for profit, you don't give a s..t about sound policy management principles.

[spindrifter]

25. I've been irritated ever since I heard "Have a Condoleeza

Christmas" a few times on the radio today--and now THIS!! :nuke:

If the Secretary of Sh*t has the ovaries to say that we can win in Iraq, where is the plan? If she doesn't have the plan, she should freakin' resign.

[global1]

26. What The Hell Is She Talking About?......

"once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor you will have a very different kind of Middle East."

How can Iraq ever be a stabilizing factor - not in our lifetime. Dream On.

[lyonn]

28. Delusions and insanity runs through the bush administration

Yesterday we were told that many high ranking officers and retired military along with war analyst said we have lost Iraq. Now she comes out with this babble about stabilizing factor and how worthwhile our efforts are over there and a win is doable.

She couldn't complete a sentence when she was bush's intelligence adviser, now that's a joke, and she now seems to complete one that makes no sense, amazing.

[coalition_unwilling]

64. Kindasleezy is still holding to the neocon delusion of

the "reverse domino" theory, i.e., that if we can just turn Iraq into a functioning liberal (lower-case 'l') democracy, the other regimes in the Middle East will topple like a row of dominoes.

It's called "reverse domino" because it alludes to the so-called "Domino Theory" used to justify our involvement and genocide in southeast asia from 1954-74. That theory held that if Vietnam fell to Communism, other southeast Asian nations would soon also fall. The lunacy of the "Domino Theory" is visibile for all to see, as the Hilton Hotel corporation is actually running a real Hanoi Hilton now.

[rodeodance]

27. dead troops as the 'investiment"--human capital for the market! damm her

[tabasco]

51. Rumsfeld: troops are "fungible."

Rice: troops are "investments."

These are normally financial terms, not words used to describe the ultimate sacrifice by service members.

[David Zephyr]

30. Let the bitch tell that to Cindy Sheehan!

To hell with Condi Rice and her "investment"

[moondust]

31. Condi Pangloss.

Voltaire would love these fools.

[coalition_unwilling]

65. Actually, Voltaire is spinning in his grave right now ! n/t

[oblivious]

32. Will no one come to the lady's defence?

[BrotherBuzz]

33. George Shultz might....

as soon as he pops a Viagra®.

[Cha]

36. So mcconjob is going to invest her

ass out there on the line in IRaq?

[HughBeaumont]

37. I don't know what's worse . . .

The fact that this mentality and these glue-huffing nutjawbs still run this country without being led out in cuffs or that we've still learned not one goddamned thing since Vietnam.

[Swede]

39. Worth the -INVESTNENT- as in monetary proceeds?

Condi is speculating on a return,with kids lives.

[Quantess]

45. Yes. Her investment in her own career.

She doesn't give a fig if anyone else pays, whichever way anyone else will pay, whether it's their leg, or their life.

(edit grammar)

[oasis]

40. As long as no one she knows did the dying part.(eom)

[Theduckno2]

41. This is Bushco's true 'culture of life'.

I am beginning to believe that Bushco wants the Iraq war to continue so that they can leave office and say that they didn't lose it.

Kinda funny :sarcasm: how other countries/governments aren't anxious to get in on this "great" investment. Why is that Condi? Hmmmm?

[colorado_ufo]

43. Worth the investment?

INVESTMENT?

Not fighting for a way of life and principles -
Not fighting for survival -
Not even fighting for honor -

For an INVESTMENT?

Tell me, bitch, when you run your spreadsheet, how much value are you allocating to each human life sacrificed?

Since you have no children, let's just say we take your mother and send her over there, perhaps to work in a hospital to tend to the shredded Iraqi children languishing there without even the benefit of pain killers. And then you can hope the hospital doesn't get bombed. And then we can send her there again for another two or three tours of duty.

Put that in your double-entry bookkeeping and then shove it.

[Hideboh]

44. clueless

totally clueless.

[MGD]

46. We're supposed to believe her because she has been right about so many other things I guess.

We'll just take her word for it because she has special knowledge and skills that allow her to accurately fortell the outcomes of the events she and her boss set into motion. Right. Sure. Actions speak louder than words Condi.

[DoYouEverWonder]

49. The level of this woman's stupidity and arrogance

will never cease to amaze me.

[maddezmom]

50. Rice says Iraq is worth the sacrifice of lives and money

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/MANUEL BALCE CENETA
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that a lot has been sacrificed for Iraq in terms of lives and money, and that President Bush would not ask for continued sacrifices if he didn't believe the U.S. can succeed.

As she sits in her comfy silk upholstered chair by the Christmas tree. :banghead:

[shain from kane]

61. Like I said the other day, she is the angel on the top of the tree with the branch stuck up her ass.

[Laughing Mirror]

63. "yes, the price ... uh ... we think is worth it"

Where have we heard that before?

[Supersedeas]

55. plenty of markers = plenty of ambiguity and vagaries aimed at legacy building

[Peace Patriot]

58. Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor'

NOW!

That's all I've got to say about it.

[0007]

59. I'm speechless........

She is an insane woman!

[ckramer]

60. My husband said so

LOL

[closeupready]

62. What an appallingly cold thing to say.

I don't know how she manages to top each gaffe with a bigger one every couple months, but there we go. :mad: This will have to do until February or so.

[Seabiscuit]

66. She's still immersed in Bubble Boy's bubble.

She's still got a contact high from being too close to George, the Walking Hallucinagen for too long.