Michael Moore has Rice's "Wonderful Tsunami" quote front and center

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1013

Tsunami relief provided "wonderful opportunity" for US: Rice

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Asia's tsunami disaster provided a "wonderful opportunity" for the United States to show compassion with relief efforts that reaped "great dividends" on the diplomatic front, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice said.

Rice's remarks, made at her Senate confirmation hearing, drew a sharp rebuke from Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer who accused her of insensitivity to last month's catastrophe that claimed some 168,000 lives across the Indian Ocean.

Rice, the outgoing national security adviser, made clear in her opening statement Washington's hope of consolidating its influence in the region, following up on the goodwill generated by US military help and financial aid for tsunami victims. "Our Asian alliances have never been stronger, and we will use that strength to help secure the peace and prosperity of the region," she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that was expected to clear her nomination with little trouble.

US officials have trumpeted the massive military relief effort mounted by the Pentagon as a humanitarian gesture that could score points in a part of the world where anger still lingers from the Iraq war. In response to a question, Rice agreed readily. "I do agree that the tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the US government, but the heart of the American people, and I think it has paid great dividends for us," she said.

[notadmblnd]

1. Just goes to show how comfortable they've grown

in their power. They don't even try to hide their agenda any longer.

on edit: the tsunami was only the most horrendous natural disaster in a hundred years and She sees it as a wonderful opportunity? Explain that to me please Dr. Rice.

[Todd B]

5. Of course.

Well, of course.

Anything that takes the attention of the continued disaster of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration policies is a wonderful opportunity according to them.

Yuck. She is, without a doubt, one of the worst human beings I have ever seen.

[errorbells]

2. Antisocial personality disorder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopath

<snip>
Research has shown that individuals with APD are indifferent to the threat of physical pain, and show no indications of fear when so threatened; this may explain their apparent disregard for the consequences of their actions, and their lack of empathy for the suffering of others.

CR gives me the creeps!:scared:

[Merlot]

3. I happened t se a clip of her at the hearing

Did anyone else notice that at least while Barbara Boxer was questioning her, she kept working her fingers on the table top? It looked like she was rolling an imaginary cigarette over and over. A little nervous perhaps? She's probably trained herself not to blink and to look directly ahead to apear honest, but that nervous energy has to seep out somehow.

[Cha]

4. Could anyone be more deranged and embarrassing

for the USA except for bush? Is that why he chose her ..to take the microscope off of his moronic blurts?

I started watching "Silver City" last night..Chris Cooper is doing a fantastic job of imitating bush's vacuous stupidity!

[chookie]

6. America's Voice to the World

No decent person would say such a thing. No government professional should be suffered to serve the people who utters such thoughtless remarks in the face of horrific destruction and loss of life.

Calling a tsunami which killed 200,000 people "a wonderful oportunity" demonstrates yet again that Condi, despite all the buzz about her "brilliance" -- is a profoundly stupid person.

Condi is the most over-rated person in government -- the Ashley Simpson of this fucking administration

[gizmo1979]

7. What's with her hair?

That is one Frankenstein looking woman,and I use the term woman loosely!

[frylock]

8. the same could be said about september 11th

[robbedvoter]

12. And it was said. Condi, Pickles, they both gushed...

Pickles even said people will divorce less now...go to curch more (after 911)

[Garbo 2004]

9. Almost a quarter of a million dead is regarded not as a tragic calamity

that touches anyone with any humanitarian feelings, but as a PR opportunity for the Bush administration (which they bungled BTW). The delay in US response was probably while the Administration weighed the cost/benefit of taking action and how they could spin it to their advantage.

According to reports from American survivors, the US gov't didn't even take care of its own citizens, especially in comparison to what other European nations did for their citizens who were caught up in the event.

[Skittles]

10. Ms. Rice certainly is a certified republican

pretty sick stuff

[theresistance]

11. That's all the neo-crazies think about

every distater is a "wonderful opportunity". That's what many of them said about 911!

[robbedvoter]

13. Is it time for diplomacy already? Are we there now?

[David Zephyr]

14. Wow! Our Soon to Be Chief "Diplomat" Really Knows How to Speak.

This will be our Secretary of State?

Argh...................