Condi Tells A Whopper

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Republicans seem to specialize in ludicrously exaggerated assessments that they themselves couldn’t possibly believe, but that they feel compelled to keep repeating with a straight face long after they become the object of widespread ridicule.

There was George Bush declaring that Harriet Miers was “the best person I could find” to be a Supreme Court Justice, a story that he’s still sticking to.

There was John McCain insisting repeatedly that Sarah Palin was “the second best person to lead the nation”, as CNN put it on Sunday.

And now, Dr. Condi Rice, Ph. D., brings us this carefully nuanced assessment:

Rice: Bush approach best to achieve Mideast peace

As befitting a Secretary of State, that’s a truly world-class whopper. What remains to be seen is whether she wholeheartedly embraces the Bush-McCain doctrine, and goes on to repeat and defend this absurdity.

Comments

  1. Hannah Stevens says:
    December 17, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    The liars will soon be gone. These past 8 years have been a nightmare and we end on a down note, with more people losing their jobs and homes. The supremes must really be proud of themselves. And those who supported bush and co and some still do, you have to be addled.

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  2. JohnSawyer says:
    December 17, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    And what about this lie?:

    “Rice rejected reports that, as national security adviser, she erred before the September 11, 2001, attacks in failing to take seriously warnings from U.S. officials about al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

    “This is simply not true,” Rice said. “There was a single item that said ‘bin Ladin determined to attack’ — not when, where, how, under what circumstances; largely historical data about al Qaeda had always wanted to attack at home.

    “And, by the way, threats that were multiplying in July, principally about the foreign threats in foreign places. But I am the one who said, ‘Well, what if something happens at home?’”

    What crap. It was widely reported after 911, that intelligence reports prior to 911, which Rice read, stated that al Qaeda planned to hijack planes in the US and fly them into major buildings, including the Twin Towers, Pentagon, White House, US Capitol, etc. Just because Rice and pals didn’t know every detail about those plans (supposedly), and which buildings were the intended targets, doesn’t mean there was nothing they could have done. The FBI, etc. had enough information about the hijackers training in the US, and other information, that they could have used to investigate further. If they had investigated further, 911 probably wouldn’t have happened.

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/Global-Terrorism/September-11-report-tells-of-many-hijack-warnings/2005/02/10/1107890348687.html

    And those are just the intelligence reports that have been made public. It’s virtually certain that still-classified intelligence prior to 911 was much more detailed and specific.

    When the Bush administration first took office in 2001, they began to dismantle the anti-terrorism efforts of the Clinton administration. Why? Maybe because, the fewer agents doing investigations, the easier it is to control the ones that remain, to make sure they don’t do their job, which allows attacks to happen, allowing Bush to justify going to war against Iraq, and to launch an overall “anti-terror” campaign of their own which is cover for all kinds of nasty goals.

    When people like Rice, Bush, Cheney, etc. read Orwell’s “1984″, they seemed to take it as an instruction manual, not a warning.

  3. hitobito says:
    December 18, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    JohnSawyer has it exactly right. Condi Rice was the worse National Security Advisor in our history! She had little or no national security experience and by her incompetence and inaction, the events of 9/11 were not prevented. It will be a great day in the USA when these incompetent liars return to Crawford, Texas!

  4. Intel Bubba says:
    January 28, 2009 at 2:21 am

    Yay! A Democrat circle jerk by a bunch of arm-chair quarterbacks.

    You can’t even begin to imagine the enormous flood of intelligence reports that come from every deep dark corner of the world every single day. There is more information in one day than has filled up this blog site in the last five years, and that’s just the secret reports, which are really just the dumbed down abridged highlights of the top secret reports. That also doesn’t include reporting that is shared to the intelligence community from our allies or open source reporting that comes from surfing jihadist websites and foreign news services.

    Even if Rice did read all of the reports. You can’t even imagine the number of possible hijacking plans, embassy attacks, hotel bombings, assassination plots, kidnapping plots, etc. that are uncovered every day, each of which, was more of a credible threat than what, at the time, seemed to be some deluded, cocamamy scheme to fly airplanes into buildings.

    When it comes to dealing with intelligence, you can’t just send in the cavalry every time an alarm bell goes off, because you wouldn’t have enough personnel or time to cover every single threat that’s out there. It would be like if every single fire alarm in the entire city of New York went off at one time and you only had one fire department to deal with it.

    Hindsight is 20/20 and what seems to you to be blatantly obvious evidence once someone has gone back and dug it all up after the fact is actually more like finding a needle in a haystack when you’re in the moment.

    You need to put away all of your copies of the Bourne Identity and CSI Miama, because you have a very skewed perspective of what falls within the realm of possible. We don’t really get a picture of the culprit that pops up on our screen every time someone utters the phrase “kill Americans.”

    That’s fine though, now we get to experience a new administration, and we’ll see how well they supervise things from the top. But I guarantee you that once the Obamanites begin to roll back all of the intelligence collection initiatives that were put in place by the Bush administration, security efforts at home and abroad will suffer. You may never see it until it results in an attack, and then I’m sure you’ll blame it on the nearest republican.