Miss "Who Could Have Imagined an Al Qaeda Attack" Rice (Larry Johnson)

[kpete]

A New Intelligence Failure?
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-01-31 06:26. Media
By Larry C. Johnson

There she goes again. Miss "Who Could Have Imagined an Al Qaeda Attack" Rice has struck again. Are you kidding me? Secretary of State Rice was "surprised" by the election results in Palestine? According to the New York Times:

Ms. Rice pointed out that the election results surprised just about everyone. "I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by Hamas's strong showing," she said on her way to London for meetings on the Middle East, Iran and other matters. "Some say that Hamas itself was caught off guard by its strong showing."
If she is saying that the no one at the CIA, the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, or the Defense Intelligence Agency had a clue that something like this could happen, we should immediately dismantle the intelligence community and start over. I find it difficult to believe the system is that broken. We should learn in the coming days whether or not the intelligence analysts really did miss this.

Several informed analysts, however, got it right. Put me in that group. Here's what I wrote on December 16, 2005 on NoQuarter.typepad.com referring to the upcoming election in Iraq:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7288

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. No one ever had a clue that the CIA could vanish regimes and

other democratically elected governments around the globe miss rice. No one.... it's it's just uncanny. No one could have dreamed that the weapons inspectors could have finished their jobs, that the Iraqis could cut up missiles, that we didn't care whether they had WMD or not, and if they did, and if they never used them in the last 15 years, then all the better.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. The woman sucked on galvanized nails when she was a baby.

[Disturbed]

3. CondiLiar is as clueless as she is dense.

She is also a crappy liar but I guess that is saying something nice about her. I am still amazed that so many Dems voted for her to SofS. Didn't she prove how incompetent she was as NSA?

[salin]

5. Incompetent?

Or just given too difficult a task: to play yes-woman/spin-meister for jr. I mean as she says this he is off claiming that the Iranians want more freedom and democracy - She is playing her role (justifying/spinning for the administration) - it is just she has been cast in a losing role.

[bpilgrim]

4. she knows her audience well

and speaks to them - the american people - at their level of knowledge.

she knows the M$M keeps us in the dark and ignorant.

peace

[rodeodance]

6. Larry J. predicted this on Dec 16, 2005--he wrote of this happening

.....Several informed analysts, however, got it right. Put me in that group. Here's what I wrote on December 16, 2005 on NoQuarter.typepad.com referring to the upcoming election in Iraq:

With voting already underway in Iraq we should harbor no illusion about the ultimate outcome -- the Iraqi Shias with the closest ties to Iran will secure the largest share of the votes. George Bush is right about one thing; this vote is likely to remake the face of the Middle East. Unfortunately, his vision that Iraq will become a launching pad for a new era of peace and understanding among the nations in the region is not only farfetched, but ignores what is actually taking place on the ground.
A few hundred miles to the west, the radical Muslim Brothers (spiritual kin of the Wahabis of Saudi Arabia) have secured an historic place in the Egyptian legislature. Despite intense pressure by the Mubarak government they rallied their supporters and got out the vote. At least they heeded Bush's call for democracy. On the northern border of Iraq, in Turkey, the Islamists also are on the upswing. And let's not forget Lebanon, where forces with close ties to Iran are consolidating power and influence. Remember, Hezbollah is no longer a rag tag band of terrorists, instead it has grown into a disciplined de facto Army of Lebanon.

We are unwilling to come to grips with a very simple truth -- the majority of people in the Middle East prefer an Islamic rather than a secular government. Economic development does not ensure a steady march towards a secular, diverse society. Heavens (irony intended) just look at us. Despite our economic prowess and alleged sophistication, religious fundamentalists in our own country have succeeded in bringing great pressure to bear on our government and our media.

[rodeodance]

7. just connect the dots--it happened with the Hezbollah in Lebanon

.Despite intense pressure by the Mubarak government they rallied their supporters and got out the vote. At least they heeded Bush's call for democracy. On the northern border of Iraq, in Turkey, the Islamists also are on the upswing. And let's not forget Lebanon, where forces with close ties to Iran are consolidating power and influence. Remember, Hezbollah is no longer a rag tag band of terrorists, instead it has grown into a disciplined de facto Army of Lebanon.

[Benhurst]

8. Condoleezza may not get everything right, but she's the most dynamic

figure to hit the world scene since Puss in Boots.