Condi Rice re: US presence in Iraq: "I would never call them occupiers"

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13358233.htm

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Rice and Boxer also tangled over Boxer's reference to the United States as an occupying force in Iraq.

"I would never call them occupiers," declared Rice. Boxer said that to suggest that anyone in the room did not love and respect U.S. soldiers was "a low blow."

Members of the Code Pink anti-war group attended the hearing, holding up signs with slogans like "Leave Iraq," "There is NO military solution" and "Security Thru Peace."

As Rice left the hearing room, Code Pink protester Liz Hourican, 40, of Phoenix, Arizona, called Rice a "war criminal" and shouted "You should resign and take Bush with you."

[bdamomma]

1. thank god, for that code pinker to speak up for all of us!!!

:patriot:

[malaise]

2. Who gives a flying fugg what she would call them

They are occupiers.

[Solly Mack]

3. She wouldn't call a lie a lie either

so...

[bdamomma]

7. she is loyal to the *ies like a dog.

[Solly Mack]

14. They all lie like the rug they sweep the truth under

[PDJane]

4. They're not an occupying force?

Oh,really?

They're where they aren't wanted, they're bombing the hell out of civilians, fighting civilians, starving a civilian population and destroying the environment. Iraq's state and people have never done a damn thing to the people of the US, and have suffered under a 10-year sanctions programme. But the US isn't an occupier?

Could have fooled me.

[shaniqua6392]

5. Condi is out of her mind.

She will go down in history along with George as the destroyers of America. Condoleezza Rice...I always giggle when I hear her name because my hubby once said her name sounds like a "side dish". I will have a burrito and a side of condoleezza rice. Sorry...it just makes me laugh.

[Beausoleil]

8. Condoleezza Rice

Goes well with Armchair General Tso's Chicken and Kung Pao Chickenhawk.

[shaniqua6392]

9. OMG! Coffee spurted onto keyboard.

I am going to tell hubby what you said. LOL!

[Beausoleil]

10. I'll bet you'll be back for more in an hour! n/t

[zbdent]

12. I would expect that it would be an expensive side dish

that tastes like someone else ate it a day ago ...

and you're paying for the "privilege" of eating it ...

[Beausoleil]

13. You're probably right

Tastes just as bad in 2008 as in 2001!

[calimary]

18. What mind?

contradicta has only kneepads at this point, I suspect. And from what I've seen of her actions and "accomplishments," seems to me her much-vaunted alleged "brains" are just that: alleged.

[spanone]

6. what did roger clemens have to say?

:sarcasm:

[Mike Nelson]

11. I would call Condi a ...

LIAR

[raccoon]

15. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Shakespeare said it. DOesn't matter what you call them, COndi, they're still occupiers.

[tanyev]

16. Yeah, and you said the Aug. 6 PDB didn't warn of attacks in the U.S.

Go talk to yourself, Condi, because we do not need to listen to you.

[Winterblues]

17. "Who could have imagined" Rice would have such a viewpoint?

:shrug: Why can't those Democrats understand the Iraqis invited the US Military into their country...