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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

Didn’t one of our esteemed ruling class leaders recently proclaim that a certain minimal number of suicide bombings are acceptable. Not a serious security concern, just a nuisance?


41 posted on 11/18/2015 10:18:22 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: bkopto

Let’s not assume she’s saying stop all refugees.

But from an optics standpoint she shouldn’t be advocating taking refugees right now.


42 posted on 11/18/2015 10:18:23 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: bkopto

Sounds just like Yeb Bush.


43 posted on 11/18/2015 10:18:30 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: bkopto

There is no reason in the world we “need” to accept these refugees. None.


44 posted on 11/18/2015 10:18:34 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Fightin Whitey; All

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

* Crickets *


45 posted on 11/18/2015 10:18:56 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read)
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To: bkopto

Tell us why we should take them? ISIS is contained, at least according to Obama. Send them back to Syria.


46 posted on 11/18/2015 10:19:18 AM PST by Vic S
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To: savagesusie

Excellent summation.


47 posted on 11/18/2015 10:19:36 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: 9YearLurker

West?


48 posted on 11/18/2015 10:20:27 AM PST by Maceman
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To: bkopto

Another in a long list of so-called “leaders” lacking the necessary leadership requirements to even open her mouth on Foreign Policy issues.


49 posted on 11/18/2015 10:20:31 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Signalman
Lots of people wanted her to run for Pres.
Yeah, like we need another black homosexual in the White House. No thanks.
50 posted on 11/18/2015 10:20:39 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I don’t like Condi Rice. She’s pretty much wrong all the time.

That is about how I have seen her, she has gone liberal so many times now that I don't understand how she held her job. Just is like Carter, she will not shut up and go away.

51 posted on 11/18/2015 10:22:22 AM PST by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: euram

I wouldn’t lump Cain in with the others. He’s got it pretty much right and understands the economy. I wish he had won that senate primary a decade ago. He’s one of the best.

Carson is good on many issues, but not qualified for President.


52 posted on 11/18/2015 10:23:10 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: vetvetdoug
I will never vote for another black unless presented by a superlative candidate. Yes, its racist but the blacks in public service have shown me that they will en bloc vote for their race over the country's best interest. A black will have to be significantly trustworthy to overcome the precedence set by the current blacks in the public for me to change my mind.

I don't see what Condi's race has to do with her foolish comments. She's just another GOP elitist from the Bush/Rove/McCain/Romney wing of the party. Her opinions are probably the same as all members of the Bush family.

53 posted on 11/18/2015 10:23:24 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: bkopto

Said the idiot who couldn’t even read the f**king briefing that said Bin Laden was planning attacks with planes.


54 posted on 11/18/2015 10:23:29 AM PST by montag813
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To: bkopto
Condi...


55 posted on 11/18/2015 10:23:57 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: manc

If Drudge headlines matter, there have been a slew of them about the FBI leader, Comey.

I’m going to venture there is nearly a war between the FBI and the Justice Department, which is owned by Obama, and is always headed by some black sycophant, now Lynch.

We should pray for Comey. He will either be dismissed or forced to resign if he doesn’t stop doing his J-O-B.
Obama doesn’t like him cleaning up the place, nor telling the truth about conditions and investigations and capabilities.


56 posted on 11/18/2015 10:24:04 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: bkopto

Can it be that people without children do not understand the investment others have in the future?


57 posted on 11/18/2015 10:24:44 AM PST by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: bkopto

More elitist pigs demanding that we be spoonfed their crap.


58 posted on 11/18/2015 10:24:48 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." Abigail Adams)
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To: bkopto

Establishment.


59 posted on 11/18/2015 10:24:57 AM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“Yep—part of the great conservative wish to throw off the yoke of the “racism” charge. Has led to the irrational support of Powell, Cain, West, and Carson for high office as well.”

Needs to be repeated.


60 posted on 11/18/2015 10:25:03 AM PST by odawg
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