Rice Admits US Underestimated Hamas Strength

[TomInTib]

This is from yesterday's NY Times. I did not see it here in all the Alito hubbub and thought the stunning incompetence of the Department of State should be exposed to all of us here. If this is the best State can offer then they all should resign today. Sorry if this is a dupe.

LONDON, Jan. 29 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Sunday that the United States had failed to understand the depth of hostility among Palestinians toward their longtime leaders. The hostility led to an election victory by the militant group Hamas that has reduced to tatters crucial assumptions underlying American policies and hopes in the Middle East.

"I've asked why nobody saw it coming," Ms. Rice said, speaking of her own staff. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."


There is a lot more of this idiocy at:


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/international/middleeast/30diplo.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1138729800-P+g8C7dAU3iBb7h08tWhnA

[BlueEyedSon]

1. And no one expected airplanes as weapons, or Katrina, or......

Who gives a shit what their ideology is?
They are just plain incompetent!

[truth2power]

6. I wish someone would post a list

of all the things this shit-for-brains administration "never saw coming".

Goddammit!! Why are these people still taking taxpayer money? And NEVER being accountable??

If you or I screwed up that many times on our jobs our asses would have been out on the street long ago!

And what does it say about the culture of corruption-loving Repugs that they're willing to tolerate such incompetence? :grr:

[BlueEyedSon]

7. How about the impending economic collapse (due to tax cuts)?

The "real" price of the Medicare bill....?

and on and on....

[sui generis]

2. yet another bush admin incompetent twit - are we surprised?

The Bush good old boys (and gals) club is filled with nincompoops who couldn't cogitate their way out of a wet paper bag with a bright light at one end.

[gratuitous]

3. You know, for all their snooping and prying

The corrupt Bush administration seems remarkably uninformed about the likely outcome of events, outcomes that are easily foreseen, predictable, or within the acceptable realm of blind chance. These people are probably surprised by the nasty turn the weather takes every November, too.

[Burried News]

4. With all our NSA surveillance we didn't know this? The Mossad

didn't know this? Maybe we need to worry about rebuilding the democracy at home before we wreck anything else.

Well Condoliezza, back to your labors.

[Skidmore]

5. Rice is an amazing waste of carbon based matter and oxygen.

[Village Idiot]

8. Don't you feel safer? I know I feel safer...

[951-Riverside]

9. "OMG! Poo comes out of my butt" - Exclaims Secretary of State Condi Rice

...Bush underlings say the darnest things

[Just Me]

10. NOT the United States, bitch! YOU and the BushCO/neocon regime,...

,..."underestimated" the whole Middle East!!! :grr:

EW!!! These people piss me off all the damn time!!! I mean, just look at my language,...I don't talk like that, normally!!!

EW!!! :grr:

[shain from kane]

11. In an opposite sense, as a so-called Russian expert,

she overestimated the threat, and was not able to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union before it happened?
This failed Nostrodumbass sure spent a lot of time and training on studying a subject
that should have made her an irrelevant has-been years ago.
Truthfully, I don't think Rice knows shit.

[TomInTib]

12. Great point. But that girl can flat-out play a piano, can't she?

[shain from kane]

13. Did I hear correctly that the fellow replacing Greenspan played

piano at a bar?
Duoing pianists, anyone?