Condi Rice as Secretary of State is causing dismay in Europe.

[glarius]

Eric Margolis, an American mid-east expert living in Toronto, who writes for the Toronto Sun has written another excellent article; this time concerning Bush's choice of Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State. Margolis, a Republican, has been against the Iraq war from the beginning and has written many articles critical of the Bush administration....
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"In my view, Rice, an academic Soviet expert, has been the worst national security adviser since the Reagan administration's bumbling William Clark, whose only foreign affairs experience, wags said, came from eating at the International House of Pancakes."
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"The image of Condi Rice and George Bush sitting at the White House piano singing Onward Christian Soldiers is unsettling Europe, which thought Bush II might restore America to its traditional multilateral foreign policy. Even Bush's faithful British retainer, Tony Blair, is looking increasingly unhappy."

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/11/21/724223.html

[amber dog democrat]

1. This may help Europe to become more unified against the threat we pose

to world political and economic stability. She's just another catalyst prompting them to act in her best interests.

[Fed Up]

2. it doesn't matter if he makes Herman Goering the Sec'y of State

Because Kerry didn't win the election. Can anything be worse than that? Nothing else matters now. We lost the Great War, so any skirmishes after that like who is going to be the new secretary of state don't amount to a hill of beans.

Fuck Europe, their press always gives Bush the benefit of the doubt. Every time I read Le Monde or watch the BBC they are always acting like Bush is deserving or he is some kind of great leader.

[non sociopath skin]

3. Try changing your French paper to Liberation, Fed Up.

You won't see much adulation for Shrub there.

The Skin

[greenman3610]

4. there was a thread about Putin starting a new alliance..

with India, China, and Brazil. Anyone see that one?

[Emillereid]

6. Is there an English version?

[teryang]

5. New National Security Advisor: nuclear war advocate

http://www.counterpunch.org/barry11202004.html

The Rise of Stephen Hadley
The Vulcans Consolidate Power
By TOM BARRY


<snip>Hadley participated in the National Institute for Public Policy's study team that produced Rationale and Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, a study that called for the development of "mini"-nuclear weapons and served as a road map for George W. Bush's Nuclear Posture Review. The report advocated the use of bunker-busting nuclear weapons even against non-nuclear countries to rid rogue nations of any weapons of mass destruction, such as stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons. Prefiguring the preventive national security doctrine of the Bush administration, the report stated: "Under certain circumstances very severe nuclear threats may be needed to deter any of these potential adversaries."

Hadley advocates extending the role of nuclear weapons to include deterrence against all so-called weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons. He wrote...<snip> ... It is often an unstated premise in the current debate that if nuclear weapons are needed at all, they are needed only to deter the nuclear weapons of others. I am not sure this unstated premise is true.<snip>

<Like his former boss Condoleezza Rice, Hadley is an administration loyalist who faithfully supported the national security policies of the first administration--even to the extent of supporting claims that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons and had ties with al-Qaida when the CIA had repeatedly warned that such charges were not backed by hard intelligence.

With his longtime personal and professional contacts with Rumsfeld and Cheney, Hadley served as one of the key points of contact with the National Security Council for the neocon-militarist network planning the war in Iraq and other hard-line policy initiatives that was based in the Pentagon and the vice president's office.<snip>