Posted on 09/20/2008 5:13:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist threats during her nation's darkest hours.
But a new book reveals that she was not so steadfast in facing down her own more personal enemies within the Bush administration.
Instead, Miss Rice was so fazed by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that she burst into tears at a meeting in the White House situation room.
The floodgates opened for the then national security adviser in February 2004, as the Bush administration was wrestling with growing instability in Iraq and the legal status of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
True; and some may be humming "Goodbye Earl" while they are wiping the tears away.
Move. Change your name. Leave no trail. Ignore fella's advice and you will rue the day you made the lady cry.
Just so you know how I feel, and hoping that you feel the same way.
I agree - I don't believe it for a minute. Condi Rice is not some twenty-something ingenue. She's an accomplished, disciplined, superbly educated woman. She's been in the lion's den for years. No way would she burst into tears in front of a roomful of people.
She may have shed tears in privacy, but definitely not in the scenario described here.
But ......... But ............. I'm already serving a life sentence and she says there isn't going to be any parole. Fortunately there are some very nice perks.
BINGO
Double bingo.
Rumsfeld was against nation building. He wanted to get in, topple Saddam Hussein and leave the country.
Well, they surely aren’t going to blame Tenet, he’s a dem.
Nation building was the whole point of the invasion.
ExACTLY. I really like Rummy...my God the man has spent so much of his life in service to this country. Can’t they stop spewing venim on him and let him live the rest of his life in peace?....Don’t bother answering...I know they can’t. So Sad.
I had to update my tag line because of this thread ;-)
How do you know? I do not believe for one moment he botched anything, until credible evidence, with an A+ rating is shown and proved.
He was not that kind of man, and worked his can off. He always said he was at the Presidents disposal and wishes.
He was for a lean mean fighting force and machine, and he would have worked hard for the surge, he would do as the President wanted. He stated this over and over.
Did not know he had one coming, what is the name of his book, please?
The invasion was nothing short of brilliant, and will long be studied. Many thought we would lose and be unable to topple Baghdad in urban warfare. We took over the country faster than anyone could have predicted. We also did it w/o our troops from the north when Turkey wimped out. As far as the aftermath, we will learn in the future, but I think Rummy had less to do with that than the state department and the wrong philosophy of 'winning hearts and minds' before we won on the battle field. We shall learn about the aftermath in much greater detail, but the invasion of both Iraq and Afghanistan were brilliantly run and will be studied as such for many years.
Well, okay then.
[but just for her sake]....:)
Rumsfeld’s a fighter.
Too bad this sentence wasn't at the very beginning... because I stopped reading this tripe right there.
Senior moment, can’t remember. I went to Amazon.com and typed in Donald Rumsfeld. There was the latest book due out end of October so I pre ordered.
Hope this helps.
I am pretty sure that he continues in D.C. working on the Pentagon reformation, which is exactly why he is so hated.
O has promised to cut off funding for all future weapons plans for our military.
WAKE UP AMERICA
Lean fighting machine plus complete de-bathification equalled chaos. He botched it.
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