all the poop on Rice can be found here:

[donsu]

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100480#1

Sticky Rice

Foreign policy in the next Bush administration threatens to be more of the same. As early as today, the president is expected to name Condoleezza Rice as his replacement for Colin Powell as the United States secretary of state. Rice was a seriously flawed national security advisor; the Washington Post points out that "many experts consider her one of the weakest national security advisers in recent history in terms of managing interagency conflicts." She is, however, a constant, loyal, dedicated Bush devotee, ready to work on "behalf of a boss whose sentences she can finish, and who trusts her totally to carry out his wishes." As the New York Times reports, "Ms. Rice seems unlikely to have any agenda but Mr. Bush's. She would be closer to her president …probably than any cabinet officer since Robert F. Kennedy served as his brother's attorney general." For his second term, President Bush is swiftly replacing many members of his cabinet with members of his close inner circle. Ivo Daalder, a special advisor for the Center for American Progress, states, "Her appointment means that the president wants to surround himself with the people he's most comfortable with, and who are most loyal to his view of what foreign policy's all about." Here's a look at Rice's record:

INATTENTION TO TERRORISM: According to the 9/11 Commission report, chief White House expert on terrorism Richard Clarke sent Rice an urgent memo just days after she took office, stressing the severity of the terrorist threat. She did not respond, and although the national security leadership "met formally nearly 100 times in the months prior to the Sept. 11 attacks…terrorism was the topic during only two of those sessions." The first meeting on al Qaeda did not occur until 9/4/01.

MISLEADING STATEMENTS PRE-WAR: Rice was one of the primary perpetrators of misinformation in the push for war with Iraq. In September 2002, she claimed, "We do know that is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon." Weapons inspector David Kay and his successor, Charles Duelfer, debunked that outright, saying Saddam had no nuclear program. Rice also pushed the phantom nuclear threat by charging that certain aluminum tubes Saddam sought were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs." A 10/3/04 New York Times article exposed that as false.

RICE GIVEN LEADERSHIP ROLE IN IRAQ, FIZZLES: In October 2003, President Bush announced he was "giving his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the authority to manage postwar Iraq." With great fanfare, Rice was put in charge of the "Iraq Stabilization Group." Seven months later, the Washington Post reported "the four original leaders of the Stabilization Group have taken on new roles, and only one remains concerned primarily with Iraq." Even within the White House, "the destabilized Stabilization Group is a metaphor for an Iraq policy that is adrift." According to the White House website, the Iraq stabilization group hasn't been publicly mentioned for more than a year.

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an aside: why would any woman wear her hair to look like Popeye's Olive Oil?

whenever I see her I think of Olive and then I think how Rice the criminal belongs in prison.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. wrong link?

[donsu]

4. it's the only link I have - just go to the Progress Report site

I have 2 blue eyed sons and used to raise blue eyed cats. drove my brown eyed mother mad. :)

[charlie]

2. Poop on Rice

Now that's an unsavory image.

[donsu]

3. LOL, sorry, hadn't thought of it that way

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