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Condoleezza Rice: I Get The Security Concerns, But The US Should Accept Refugees
TPM ^ | Nov 16, 2015 | Sara Jerde

Posted on 11/18/2015 10:05:12 AM PST by bkopto

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday (in a room with a governor who said he'd refuse refugees) that she understood the concerns over the security risks, but that the United States needed to accept refugees, as reported by AL.com.

Rice made the remarks at the 38th annual Southeast U.S.-Japan conference, in Birmingham, Alabama, according to the publication.

Among those in attendance was Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) who had released a statement Sunday that said he would not "stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way." He was one of 13 governors to release statements to that effect.

Rice acknowledged Bentley at the conference, but said the country needs to be "open and welcoming" to refugees.

"I fundamentally understand that you in a position of authority, like you, governor and others, in addition to having compassion for others, you have to be safety conscious for your people," Rice said, nodding at Bentley. "What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us."


TOPICS: Extended News; Japan; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; birmingham; condi; condoleezza; condoleezzarice; japan; obertbentley; robertbentley
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To: bkopto

I’m actually glad she outed herself as the overrated mixed-up bitch she really is.


21 posted on 11/18/2015 10:11:40 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: DesertRhino

Sick of these people. They have no idea how it is to live in our areas, to put up with violence, paying bills, etc.


22 posted on 11/18/2015 10:11:50 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: bkopto

Give refugees tuition-free enrollment to Stanford U.


23 posted on 11/18/2015 10:12:05 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Artemis Webb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSjuduQGN4

I don’t like Condi. Never really did.


24 posted on 11/18/2015 10:12:52 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: bkopto

Where does Condi live?


25 posted on 11/18/2015 10:12:59 AM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: euram
The same people who wanted Colin Powell to run, and most likely the same crowd that are diehard Cane and Carson supporters. There’s a pattern here.

Yes. And if Al Sharpton were to declare himself a Republican, these same people would line up to support him for President.

26 posted on 11/18/2015 10:12:59 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: bkopto

She is just plain WRONG! Here again, we have a cloistered privileged pontificating about what WE should do.

Frankly, I’m really tired of these tired old establishment Republicans of the past. They have absolutely no idea what it is like out here in real America for working, contributing, tax paying Americans. She might as well be from the moon.


27 posted on 11/18/2015 10:13:22 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: bkopto

Words of egregious compassion from someone who lives in a high dollar, gated enclave of the privileged. Knock yourself out, Condi, but the rest of us designate those of you who toil in the ivory towers of academia to take some of these violent Muslims in and then get back to us.


28 posted on 11/18/2015 10:13:48 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: bkopto

This confirms why I do not like the Bushes anymore.
They are nothing but Chamber of Commerce shills.
DO not care one whit about working middle class.


29 posted on 11/18/2015 10:13:56 AM PST by entropy12 (Why nobody except Trump is allowed to say DEPORT? Cuz other's rich donors will not allow it!)
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To: bkopto

IF you really GET the security concerns Ms. Condi, then you wouldn’t be stating we should accept the “refugeehadi’s”


30 posted on 11/18/2015 10:13:56 AM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: bkopto

Condi just stick to being on the NCAA ranking committee.


31 posted on 11/18/2015 10:14:54 AM PST by OLDCU
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To: bkopto

Yeah, right. And I guess we’re all gonna have to submit to the federal groping department from now on when boarding a bus or train or entering a stadium, attending a concert, watching a parade, eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe, etc. Just how many fanatical Muslim shooters and suicide bombers do you intend to purposely import?


32 posted on 11/18/2015 10:15:01 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Artemis Webb
Definitely wrong on this. My question is..."Why?" There are good and valid reasons for denying these people entry. What are Condi's reasons for allowing them?

Secondly, she states; "but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us."

Umm...I call...nay, I scream...BS, BS, BS, BS, BS.

33 posted on 11/18/2015 10:15:13 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: bkopto

Let’s say these refugees are good to go...no safety concerns. What is the benefit we Americans get from allowing more people into the country? Can I take care of my own please?


34 posted on 11/18/2015 10:15:38 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Signalman
Lots of people wanted her to run for Pres.

I'm proud to say that I was never in that camp! In fact I was loudly opposed.

35 posted on 11/18/2015 10:15:59 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: bkopto

She is just another of the large and very unconservative Bush coterie who, like Obama, believes it is OUR fault that the world is a cesspool and if only we were nicer (and weaker) the community of nations (sic) might all gather to hug and weep and sing away our differences.

I wonder how many peace-loving Syrians the dumb wench is going to take into her home?


36 posted on 11/18/2015 10:16:01 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: bkopto

We didn’t take refugees from 1926 to 1964. Why would we take them now?


37 posted on 11/18/2015 10:16:55 AM PST by BuffaloJack (ISLAM is the ENEMY.)
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38 posted on 11/18/2015 10:17:06 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: bkopto

Control words and you can frame the debate and control the “proper” perceptions of the masses.

Condi, dear-—we have an intentional invasion and intentionally funded century of wars run by your puppet masters-—Soros, Kissinger-NWO goons—the sodomite Lucifereans/elites—who want to destroy all individual differences in the masses-—create a One World religion and government-—totally controlling every single person and child.

Of course-—unity and Christianity has to be eliminated off the face of the Earth....Reason has to be eliminated-—so the irrational worldview of socialism/collectivism (dependency) is embedded into all children-—so they are SO DUMB (nihilistic) they will be “happy slaves” for the State.

Condi is a pawn-—knew it when she embraced teaching little children that sodomizing others is “Good”——part of the sodomite NWO crowd-—to destroy Reason and Christian Ethics -—to flip 2000 years of Good and Evil-—back to the collective pagan cultures for mass slavery (NWO).


40 posted on 11/18/2015 10:17:46 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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