Yahoo Article: Rice Defends Her Integrity as Hearing Turns Testy

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Rice Defends Her Integrity as Hearing Turns Testy

1 hour, 56 minutes ago U.S. National - Reuters
By Arshad Mohammed and Saul Hudson

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty as she clashed with senators about the Bush administration's justification for the Iraq war and its exit strategy.

Testifying at her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, Rice was questioned about the number of U.S. troops sent to Iraq, the adequacy of Iraqi forces being trained to replace them and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction that were the Bush administration's central justification for the war.

Rice, whose confirmation as the first black woman secretary of state is all but assured, vowed to press diplomacy to repair ties frayed by the war and argued that the White House sent enough troops to occupy Iraq despite the raging insurgency.

In a heated exchange, California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer argued that the Bush administration had shifted its justification for the war because it had failed to find stocks of biological and chemical weapons it had asserted were there.

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1. good title for once

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2. Look at the message board that associates with this story!!!

http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=l&board=37138469&tid=nmbushricedc&sid=37138469&mid=5218

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3. look at this post: Are YOU calling ME a LIAR ?????

Are YOU calling ME a LIAR ?????
by: upn0rth21 01/18/05 04:17 pm
Msg: 5236 of 5456
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CondoLeezza showed her true colors today.

Remember back in grade school, when a bully would steal someone's lunch.

When confronted, he would try to deflect the discussion from whether or not he was a thief to whether or not you would dare to call him a liar.

Enter Condi.
She cannot defend her lies, nor her complicity in mass murder, so she lamely proclaims, "Are you questioning my integrity?"

The answer is no, Condi, we aren't questioning your integrity. You haven't got any.



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