Posted on 12/02/2008 4:50:30 PM PST by SJackson
On the outside chance that anyone thought that Susan Rice might be the exception to the rule of wrong thinking that characterizes Barack Obama's foreign policy team -- well, think again.
Obama's nominee to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations had this to say in 2003 after Secretary of State Colin Powell made a wholly absurd presentation to a plenary session of the United Nations Security Council regarding the supposed threat posed by those imaginary Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
"I think he (Powell) has proved that Iraq has these weapons and is hiding them," said Rice, a former Clinton administration State Department aide, "and I don't think many informed people doubted that."
So said Rice in an interview with National Public Radio on Feb. 6, 2003 -- one day after Powell made his "case" for war to the U.N.
On that day, major newspapers in Europe had already debunked Powell's key arguments.
"Informed people" -- i.e., those who read credible media -- knew that. And they were struggling to avert an unnecessary war.
Unfortunately for the world, Susan Rice was not among them.
Fortunately for Rice, the fact of her failure is not of consequence.
On Obama's foreign policy team, the fact that someone was wrong on the great foreign policy debate of one presidency does not disqualify that individual from defining the agenda of the next presidency.
How funny.
His desire to cede our sovereignty to the UN is troubling. We will be asked to pay for that global poverty initiative and also to support world-wide abortion and other immoral agendas.
If this is from the Madison, Wis., Capital Times, what else could anyone expect?
And why would anyone pay anything to read it?
Those sectors whom this is pandering to don’t even buy newspapers.
Hence an encapsulation by the Capital Times of why newspapers are failing.
Susan Rice is tiny. At the announcement, she could barely be seen standing behind the office of the pres-elect podium.
Change...not so much.
There is nothing new under the sun.
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