Rice: I Won't Discuss Iraq Mistakes Until Bush Leaves Office...

[CatWoman]

Dec. 2, 2006 — Although she is not yet ready to explain herself, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is admitting that the United States has made mistakes in Iraq.

"As to whether the United States has made mistakes: Of course, I'm sure we have," Rice told the Arabic satellite television station Al-Arabiya. "You can't be involved in something as big as the liberation of a country like Iraq and all that has happened since, and I'm sure there are things that we could have done differently."

However, Rice told Al-Arabiya that now is not the time to talk about U.S. mistakes in Iraq.

"Frankly, we are looking ahead," she said.

Once her tenure as secretary of state is over and she is back at Stanford University, she said she will reflect on the war.

"I can look back and write books about what we might have done differently," she said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/International/story?id=2695752&page=1

[mike_c]

1. good gawd it's hard to believe that Stanford will have her back....

eom

[CatWoman]

2. I think a letter writing campaign to Stanford is in order here....

[spindrifter]

6. I have no doubt that she will return to Stanford

or go to another of the major universities, if that is what she chooses. They should require that she actually teach a certain percent of her time if she goes back to academe. I used to laugh about politics on campus. The reason they were so brutal was that the stakes were so low.

[Submariner]

16. Nooooooooooooooo!

Stanford can keep that fascist POS. I know your heart is in the right place, but I heard she was offered a job at Harvard as Chancellor, and I don't want to know that piece of crap is living a mile from me. She is trash and does not belong in Cambridge, thank you very much.

[I Have A Dream]

3. She can write books. She's already planning out ways to make money...

off of this debacle.

x(

[rodeodance]

5. I can imagine she has MAJOR BOOK contracts lined up!

[rodeodance]

4. condi--YOU will have to include yourself as you ARE a major part of the

PROBLEM!

[havocmom]

7. Mebbe she could move him to quit so she can get on with her life

and we can start fixing the mess she made?

It's on my Christmas list. ;)

[Peace Patriot]

8. That's one hell of a notion of democracy she has there--the government

"made mistakes" in an unjust and heinous war, but they are her own private property, to be kept from the public, so she can later make money from disclosing them.

Sounds like a book for Bush's "presidential library"--to set next to 10,000 copies of "My Pet Goat."

[Xipe Totec]

9. When you reflect on the war, Condi,

and someday, you will,

do us all a favor, and have a close consultation with Smith & Wesson.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. The new congress may have a different Idea about when she'll

answer some questions...I'd almost bet on it!

[tanyev]

11. Gosh, good thing that war is so FUBAR. That will give Ms. Rice

lots of material to write about. Imagine how boring her book would be if they'd only been there a few weeks.


:sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Trying to cover up lover boy's mistakes, like a good little mistress.

[wundermaus]

13. writing your memoirs in jail is no problem...

All your profits from the sales can go toward paying back the the costs of the war in Iraq... that should take a few years... better get crackin' on those books now...

[lisa58]

14. Coward! n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. "Frankly, we are looking ahead"

"There are still so many mistakes not yet done- there is still a lot of work to do. Mayhem, death, destruction-- so many potential mistakes, so little time..."

[and-justice-for-all]

17. "LIBERATION" my ass!!!

Who the fuck is she kidding? Thats not LIBERATION, its ANNIHILATION! OCCUPATION! and all for stratigic and resource purposes.

[Golden Raisin]

18. Does Ferragamo

have models in orange to match prison jump suits? But with "impeachment off the table" she won't go to prison, or the Hague. Just make a zillion bucks on the book(s) she'll write once she's out.

[Bobbie Jo]

19. The best career move she could make at this point.....

Is to resign immediately.