DR. Rice on FOX: "We are in Iraq under UNITED NATIONS mandate" oh & 9/11

[Bluebear]

"American and other coalition forces are there under U.N. mandate because the Iraqis believe that they're needed. The Iraqis are not yet capable of securing themselves."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145833,00.html

And on CNN today:

"Wolf, the important point is that the president has said that our forces will have what they need to do the job.

And I just want to remind everyone that we did this because American security interests post-9/11 were at stake. And you can't put a price tag on our security.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/30/le.01.html

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Just in case you weren't following along with the program.

[cidliz2004]

1. This makes me sick!

When and how will it ever end?

[Maat]

2. How can she twist the facts like that and get away with it.

Thanks for your post. I saved it. I want my child to know what a liar she was.

[Bluebear]

6. I edited it to include more

[underpants]

23. Because it is on TV --NOT under oath

This was brought up during the confirmation conference hearings.

[althecat]

3. She is technically correct

While the UN never approved the invasion... the UN did approve the occupation.

[CatholicEdHead]

11. Have a specific

UN resolution?

[sandnsea]

26. 1546

And if we had any brains, we'd start insisting it be supported. The aspects of the UN resolution which calls for steps to end the occupation.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=300

[Sterling]

36. It does not say we had the right to invade.

It also does not say the US specifically has the right to govern Iraq or occupy it. It is simply a call to countries that have not already invaded Iraq to Send peace keepers and aid.

[sandnsea]

39. Not what I read

First, nobody said that 1546 said we had the right to invade. It does do more than call for countries to send peacekeepers and aid, however. It authorizes the multinational force to provide security and work with the Iraqi government. In affect, it approves the occupation.

Scroll down to page 4.

http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/381/16/PDF/N0438116.pdf?OpenElement

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Oh, yeah. I remeber the UN screaming for us to invade so Iraq

could have elections.

WTF? Do these people just make it up as they go along?

[Bluebear]

32. Indeed. Clamoring for it!

[kerrygoddess]

38. Evidently they do!

Makes one ill reading this after dinner.

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Well that's just a blatant fucking lie.

How does her nose not grow every single time she opens her mouth?

And oh, I didn't realize they were still allowed to repeat that old moldly lie (the biggest one of all) about the US being under threat from Iraq, especially since it's been proven that not even Iraq's NEIGHBORS were under threat from them!!!!

[Bluebear]

9. And she managed to sneak 9/11 in there again

Rewriting fucking history.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. NO!!! WAY!!!!

OMG these people have ZERO SHAME. NONE. They will do and say absolutely ANY fucking dishonest thing. Do you think they even BELIEVE the lies or not?

[Bluebear]

16. No, as long as the people they NEED to believe them, believe them

If that makes sense.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. I hear that g*d*mn pesky theme song again...

Twilight Zone

like a never-ending episode.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Wow. Only 2 days sworn in and lying already....

This must be a new record, even for this administration.

[Bluebear]

12. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 Iraq 9/11 9/11 Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq Iraq

"And we learned a very hard lesson on September 11th, and that was that the status quo in the Middle East is not sustainable. It was producing an ideology of hatred that had people drive airplanes into our buildings"

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/30/le.01.html

[Cronus Protagonist]

29. She's their #1 liar

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=193


http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13
Buttons for brainy people - educate your local freepers today!

[d_b]

10. Making it up as they go.

[murray hill farm]

13. They are all totally insane!!

no other explaination! Evil and totally insane!

[Bluebear]

14. "Well, America and our forces will stay only where we're wanted."

Dr. Rice said so, today.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/30/le.01.html

[98geoduck]

17. and where are military bases are planted throughout the countryside!

[Bluebear]

18. Oh an PS America we need $80 BILLION more for all this

since the leaders we appointed to speak as Iraq are now saying they need us there.

[Disturbed]

19. She can lie all she wants to ..

and the vast majority of Amerikans will believe her.


"We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Condoleeza Rice, April 2001

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Don't impugn my Credibility, Senator Boxer...

I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself.

[Maat]

37. Whoa - I really like the bumpersticker!

n/t

[adigal]

21. I was wondering about that too

and why neither Tim Russert nor Wolf Blitzer asked her about that. Wasn't that an out and out lie??? Don't they feel stupid? Is that not motivation enough to call her on the lie?

God, if I had some dumbo trying to lie to me, and I am a reporter, I would call them on it.

[Bluebear]

24. Liberal media my ass

We've been Bushwhacked.

[EVDebs]

22. Fooled me, I thought a joint resolution of Congress authorized this fiasco

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html

But I have trouble with the open-ended committment of US troops for unspecified numbers of years and also the vague geographical committment mentioned as:

"Whereas it is in the national security of the United States to restore international peace and security to the Persian Gulf region".

The War Powers Act of 1973

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html

required truthful 'circumstances' also, not lies to Congress, as the precursor to war...not 'pretext' for war. Common sense and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution- itself based upon a lie, making the War Powers Act of 1973 necessary in the first place, these circumstances varying daily make a mockery of the intent of the 1973 act.

The only saving grace is that the people, through Congress, still must be reported to and the war must face funding through the Congress.

Once people understand the pig in a poke they've been sold, they will understandably elect more Democrats and progressives to Congress. Amen.

[spanone]

25. She said that same crap earlier today. These folks are delusional.

Rewriting history as we move along...re-inventing the past.

[Bluebear]

30. Delusional? I don't think so anymore

It's like they are writing a script and America is following it. She knows exactly what she is saying and that she is lying. And she doesn't care.

[peacetalksforall]

27. They're are going to be diplomats all over the world falling asleep while

they try to listen to her tired, old, well rehearsed, stale, and predictable lies.

[dweller]

28. ...still going...

dp

[Oversea Visitor]

31. What a friggin lie

In Iraq under UN mandate. :puke:

[CatholicEdHead]

33. Mandate to rebuild,

not to start the war.

[Gloria]

34. So what will Biden, Kerry, etc say in response?????

All I read was the bullshit from Biden about how now France has to "step up"..

Christ, I hope the Europeans can follow this game.

[leesa]

35. A UN mandate??? Can this bitch do anything but lie??

The follish sheeple will buy it though. God, I hate these people.

[Bluebear]

40. No, and she knows right well she is lying

They are reading from a careful script. After all, they just got back from another vacation at Camp David where they cooked up who knows what.

[LynnTheDem]

41. Right back to The Big Lie.

What's got the bushCabal so worried that they're again lying & tring to tie Iraq to the 911 attacks, I wonder...