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Exclusive: Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir
Rooters ^ | Aug 31, 2011 | By Arshad Mohammed

Posted on 08/31/2011 4:26:36 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

(Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she resented what she viewed as an attack on her integrity by former Vice President Dick Cheney in his just-published memoir.

Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Rice rejected Cheney's contention that she misled President George W. Bush about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bigtime; cheney; cheneybook; condi; condirice; explodingheads; inmytime; rice
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To: US Navy Vet

I know why they do that to the pictures of our people, but it’s very juvenile and I can’t imagine it not harming the credibility of the news source. I’m sure Condi take much better photos than that. I’m sure the photographer got lot better shots out of that series. If he didn’t, he should be canned.

As for Condi, my big bone to pick with her was her (and Colin Powell’s, and even Bush’s) habitual admonishments to Israel to not overdue it when they would suffer a terrorist attack.

You know, when someone attacks your nation, you send a big enough message to make it too costly to do it again.

Israel’s playing nice, has undoubtedly cost Israeli lives, and that’s the only true gauge of whether you’re doing things right or not.

When it comes to terrorists, kick em in the nuts Israel. Better yet, shoot them there if it suits you. Then finish the job.


21 posted on 08/31/2011 4:52:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: Bernard Marx
"Her credibility is not enhanced by making this a Reuters exclusive."

Her credibility zeroed out when she supported Obama.

22 posted on 08/31/2011 4:52:53 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: US Navy Vet
Rice doesn't care about Americans or the future of this country.

She voted for Obama in 2008 and will again because he is black. Simple as that.
23 posted on 08/31/2011 4:56:18 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Tzfat

Well, let’s see if she sues. That’s usually a strong indicator. I don’t think Cheney would leave himself open.


24 posted on 08/31/2011 4:56:52 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: tirednvirginia
Compared to Madelaine Albright, Condi was superb.

Compared to Stalin, Hitler was kind.
25 posted on 08/31/2011 4:57:08 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: US Navy Vet

Hummm,I believe Cheney.


26 posted on 08/31/2011 4:57:31 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today:))
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To: US Navy Vet

I always thought she was a bit of an odd duck...I always liked her...thought she represented the USA well...but a bit odd in her personal life.


27 posted on 08/31/2011 4:59:49 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: Tzfat

Now, now, be nice. LOL


28 posted on 08/31/2011 5:00:20 PM PDT by tirednvirginia ( RICK'S CHICK AND PROUD OF IT!)
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To: fatima

Definitely, I’m with Cheney too.

And as for Condi, if she wasn’t crying then it sounds like she is now.

I really dislike whining.


29 posted on 08/31/2011 5:00:56 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Jihad THIS!! America Forever!!!)
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To: tirednvirginia
Compared to Madelaine Albright, Condi was superb.

Name one real, significant Condi Rice accomplishment as Sec. of State.

I mean for our side.

The 2006 cease fire she brokered that saved Hizballah and allowed them to rearm and refortify southern Lebanon doesn't count.


30 posted on 08/31/2011 5:01:29 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
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To: shield

She is what she is, a school marm... and an Arabist.


31 posted on 08/31/2011 5:02:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Jihad THIS!! America Forever!!!)
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To: La Enchiladita

Hi Dita,(((((Hugs))))))Lot’s of cry babies over this book-Hehehehehe


32 posted on 08/31/2011 5:03:53 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today:))
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To: PALIN SMITH

Looks like Botox or a bee sting.

She did not look like that the last time I saw her interviewed.


33 posted on 08/31/2011 5:07:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (George Lopez is the black hole of funny. Nothing funny can escape his suck.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Her credibility zeroed out when she supported Obama.

Ba-DING! Wonder Warthog comes off the top rope and delivers the body slam!

34 posted on 08/31/2011 5:13:08 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?)
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To: tirednvirginia; Tzfat
"Compared to Madelaine Albright"

Its really about different foreign policy doctrines or foreign policy schools.

Cheney is a NeoCon. Rice and Powell are Realists. Albright is a Liberal Interventionist.

Republican presidents usually have Realists serving as Sec of State and National Security Adviser while the Sec Def job usually goes to a NeoCon. Dem presidents usually have Realists serving as Sec Def and NSA while the Sec State usually goes to a Liberal Interventionist.

Under GHW Bush the Realists had the upper hand over the NeoCons. Under GW Bush the NeoCons had the upper hand over the Realists.

35 posted on 08/31/2011 5:14:18 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: US Navy Vet

That picture looks like fighter Mike Tyson in Drag.
What a terrible pic. Always thought she was overrated.


36 posted on 08/31/2011 5:16:31 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: VastRWCon
Look who wrote the article “Mohammed” a Muslim, scary!

That and the fact that the story is from Reuters makes me not believe that all Condi's remarks were reported here.

Most likely these remarked were air-lifted from the context in which she said them.

37 posted on 08/31/2011 5:17:36 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Got a link to prove your belief that Condi voted for Obama?

I'm not saying she didn't...I have heard some people say it but I have never seen it backed up by anything solid.

38 posted on 08/31/2011 5:20:07 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: La Enchiladita

I agree with the arabist, but she ended it for me when she went to the Christian black slave camps in Sudan dressed to the nines, walked around as if she was untouchable for less than fifteen minutes and walked away. Turned her back and walked away from those poor people, and never looked back, then went to abbas and gave a speech about freedom for the poor, oppressed falsestinians. No respect for her whatsoever after that.


39 posted on 08/31/2011 5:20:27 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit.)
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To: Siena Dreaming

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/rice-congratulates-obama_n_141414.html

From the article...
She never said who she planned to vote for, but had hinted broadly that she would support McCain by repeatedly stressing that she is a Republican.


40 posted on 08/31/2011 5:27:51 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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