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Albright Worries Bush Fuels Hate for U.S. (big barf alert)
The Las Vegas Sun via AP ^ | 3/30/2004

Posted on 03/30/2004 9:10:23 PM PST by Utah Girl

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday that she is concerned President Bush is fueling the hate of terrorist organizations.

She told a crowd at the Yale Divinity School that her worries are in response to the president suggesting that "Americans have a unique relationship with God or a better understanding of God's will than worshippers from other cultures and lands."

"From the beginning, the president has made it clear that we are at war with the terrorists and not with Islam. That is to his credit," Albright said.

"(But) it surely doesn't help when the American military official with responsibility for intelligence on al-Qaida claims that 'We are in the Army of God' and that George Bush was 'appointed by God,'" she said. The comments were made by Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

Albright said she believed, as the Bush Administration did, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but she questioned the wisdom of a pre-emptive strike against Iraq.

"I did not believe there was a connection to al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein," Albright said. "I now do think that Iraq has become a magnet, a gathering ground for all various groups that hate us."

Albright testified last week before the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She said the Clinton administration used every tool it had to determine the right targets and acted when it could on the intelligence it had.


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To: Utah Girl
Albright should go to the Muslims and talk to them about fueling hatred in a country of the wealth and power of the United States.
21 posted on 03/30/2004 9:41:21 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: Utah Girl
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999.

I might as well throw this one in for good measure...

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. "[W]ithout question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

22 posted on 03/30/2004 9:43:47 PM PST by scan58
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To: Utah Girl
Dear Madame"Not So Bright"<These A**HOLES already HATE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
23 posted on 03/30/2004 9:46:01 PM PST by bandleader
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To: I still care
PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
24 posted on 03/30/2004 9:46:41 PM PST by bandleader
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To: okie01
Every time I think about madeleine albright, I get visuals of what I read about her running out of the room after arafat when he'd storm out angry during meetings.

Yasser! YASSERRRR!!!!

25 posted on 03/30/2004 9:48:02 PM PST by scan58
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To: okie01
"The terrorists may hate George W. Bush. But they laughed at Madeleine Albright."

I firmly believe this is why we were hit. We were not taken seriously because of the weakness and indecision of The Clinton Years. Think about it. You are a crazed fanatic and you're going to be scared of Madeleine Albright?

26 posted on 03/30/2004 9:49:11 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: Utah Girl
Liberals live in an imaginary
world. They unfortunately affect
the real one we all live in. That
is the stuff of nightmares.

How are ya doin', Utah Girl?

No talk since the Liz Smart
Threads. Remember?
27 posted on 03/30/2004 9:50:18 PM PST by txrangerette
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To: txrangerette
Yes! I'm doing well, glad Elizabeth is home and doing well. And hasn't run away yet, I'm sure to the sorrow of some of the posters on the Smart threads. :)
28 posted on 03/30/2004 9:55:29 PM PST by Utah Girl
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To: malia
"I wish you were correct, but, she and others like her, teach our young adults!!!"

Then it's up to us to counter that teaching don't you think?

29 posted on 03/30/2004 9:58:08 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: blackbart.223
I agree with you on that...they hate us because we are successfully destroying them!!!
30 posted on 03/30/2004 9:58:59 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: blackbart.223
you betcha!
31 posted on 03/30/2004 10:00:01 PM PST by malia (BUSH/CHENEY '04 NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Utah Girl
Ahhhhh yes...
32 posted on 03/30/2004 10:01:35 PM PST by txrangerette
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To: Utah Girl
Half-bright was on some pol yack show tonight wearing on her jacket what appeared to be two pine tree air freshners, the likes of which one would find hanging from a car's rear view mirror.
33 posted on 03/30/2004 10:02:38 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Utah Girl
Mad Maddie is a freaken idjit. But, she gets rag space for just hating Bush. Seems the media trolls for Bush haters. Oh well, I see CNN has lost half their viewership, so hope springs eternal.
34 posted on 03/30/2004 10:03:10 PM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: hole_n_one
Did you remember the cover of Maddie in Western wear on the front of Time some years back? I remember she had a leather bomber's jacket on with some stupid cowboy hat. Or something. All I can remember thinking is how stupid she looked.
35 posted on 03/30/2004 10:07:36 PM PST by Utah Girl
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To: Utah Girl
From a woman that says that Bill Clinton told her he did not have sex with that woman, and she said, "'I believe him." Any one that gullible, has no credibility in my book.
36 posted on 03/30/2004 10:09:14 PM PST by RJayneJ
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To: RJayneJ
That and a woman who believes the word of dictators and murders over the word our our president. That just galls me.
37 posted on 03/30/2004 10:10:59 PM PST by Utah Girl
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To: blackbart.223
"I did not believe there was a connection to al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein"

Remember, John Lehman asked her (during 9/11 hearings) if she was aware the terrorist Rassim - an Iraqi - escaped after the 93 WTC attacks and was granted sanctuary for Saddam ... or any of the other terrorists we knew or found hiding there ... she said she did not know!

38 posted on 03/30/2004 10:13:49 PM PST by Steven W.
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To: Utah Girl
"I believe the Bush Administration's blustering unilateralism is wrong, and even dangerous, for our country. In practice, it has meant alienating our long-time friends and allies, alarming potential foes and spreading anti-Americanism around the world."

--- Kerry, Foreign Policy Speech
Georgetown University, Jan. 23, 2003
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr012303spfp.html


Apparently, according to Kerry, "alarming potential foes" is a bad thing!
39 posted on 03/30/2004 10:20:15 PM PST by FairOpinion (Zell Miller (D):"I’m on George Bush’s side because he’s on the side of the American people.")
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To: Utah Girl
Yes, clinking champaigne glasses with a communist dictator who is killing millions of his own people is the moral leadership we need instead of defeating evil and liberating millions according to this idiot.
40 posted on 03/30/2004 10:21:53 PM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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