NYT: Bush's Tutor and Disciple - Condoleezza Rice

[kskiska]

By ELISABETH BUMILLER


WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - President Bush introduced her in the Roosevelt Room on Tuesday as "America's face to the world," already known to most Americans and much of the globe. But mysteries remain about Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser nominated to be secretary of state in a second term that some administration officials assert will be characterized more by diplomacy than confrontation.

Is she as hawkish as those who urged Mr. Bush to invade Iraq? Or is she more moderate like the men who have been her mentors, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser to Mr. Bush's father?

More important, is she an ally of Vice President Dick Cheney? Or a counterpoint?

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In the second term, he said, Ms. Rice knows that her success will depend in large part on mending the relationships with allies that were damaged, partly by her, in the first. "Punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia," Ms. Rice was widely quoted as telling associates in the spring of 2003, when she and Mr. Bush were angry at the allies who had not backed them on the war.

Friends say Ms. Rice believes that it is now critical to reach out to those allies. They say that while she has often said she has no patience for diplomacy, she is capable of great charm and will spend much time after her confirmation in Paris, Berlin and London.

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[lovuian]

1. Disciple sounds very New testamenty!!!

:bounce:

[VegasWolf]

3. jesus bush and the four disciples at the last supper.

[truthisfreedom]

2. rice, the flip-flopper. she's already unstable. and she's said herself

that she doesn't have the temperment for this job. when does quagmire officially become nightmare, and nightmare become bad acid trip?

[oldhat]

4. Keep fighting for Whitey, Condi!