Condoleezza Rice & the 9-11 Commission [LIVE THREAD] 9AM EST

This is maybe the worst thing I've ever heard.
These women are despicable.

Incredible and outrageous!

Matthews continues with his emotional tirade against Dr.Rice's testimony, as he kowtows to the "9-11 Witches"!

3,121 posted on 04/08/2004 9:45:51 AM PDT by Reagan Man (The choice is clear. Reelect BUSH-CHENEY !)

OMG.... I don't think I can stand it.... Sid Blumenthal is going to be on FNC shortly.

3,122 posted on 04/08/2004 9:45:54 AM PDT by Darlin' ("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)

To: Conservababe

try www.wabcradio.com

3,123 posted on 04/08/2004 9:46:13 AM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)

Okay, people need to listen up.

What's important is that everyone's positive view of Condi Rice was reinforced today. The cable news shows, including Fox, have a truly small audience. She got live network time, completely uninterrupted. The media can do what they want to spin this, but they will fail.

Condi won today, big time. The jihadi of the partisan media are spinning because they know how poorly the Dems came off today.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

3,125 posted on 04/08/2004 9:46:33 AM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "John Kerry: all John F., no Kennedy..." Click on my pic!)

She stated: " THOMPSON: The Cole - why didn't the Bush administration respond to the Cole? RICE: I think Secretary Rumsfeld has perhaps said it best. We really thought that the Cole incident was passed, that you didn't want to respond tit-for-tat. As I've said, there is strategic response and tactical response. And just responding to another attack in an insufficient way we thought would actually probably embolden the terrorists. They had been emboldened by everything else that had been done to them. And that the best course was to look ahead to a more aggressive strategy against them. I still believe to this day that the al-Qaida were prepared for a response to the Cole and that, as some of the intelligence suggested, bin Laden was intending to show that he yet survived another one, and that it might have been counterproductive. THOMPSON: I've got to say that answer bothers me a little bit because of where it logically leads, and that is - and I don't like what if questions, but this is a what if question. What if, in March of 2001, under your administration, al-Qaida had blown up another U.S. destroyer? What would you have done and what - would that have been tit-for-tat? RICE: I don't know what we would have done, but I do think that we were moving to a different concept that said that you had to hold at risk what they cared about, not just try and punish them, not just try to go after bin Laden. I would like to think that we might have come to an effective response. I think that in the context of war, when you're at war with somebody, it's not an issue of every battle or every skirmish; it's an issue of, can you do strategic damage to this organization? And we were thinking much more along the lines of strategic damage. THOMPSON: Well, I'm going to sound like my brother Kerrey, which terrifies me somewhat. (LAUGHTER) But blowing up our destroyers is an act of war against us, is it not? " You can get transcripts from the Drudge Report. What a chicken S*** policy. It is funny that the most powerful nation on earth is afraid of attacking terrorist because we might "EMBOLDEN THEM", but it seems the terrorist never have a fear on "EMBOLDENING" AMERICA!
When you are attacked by terrorist you embolden them by not making them pay an unacceptable price.
RICE AND BEANS = HOT AIR.

She blew it. Another reason to dislike affirmative action. "The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that then you will lose every battle you are ever in engaged in..."
She should have, again and again, attacked Clark and the democrats. It was the Clarke and the Dumbocrats who did nothing for 8 long stinking years AFTER THE FIRST WTC ATTACK. It was the Republican reaction which has started to carry the fight to the terrorists. If Democrats had responded the way Pres. Bush has we would have stopped 911.

And yet we see today a statement like,"We didn't respond to the USS Coal because we thought it would embolden the terrorist".

This type of mindset is what prevented US from winning Korea and Vietnam. Fear, the fear of this and that and them and those. This is the same mindset that is killing our Soldiers and Marines in Iraq. Fear of emboldening the Islamic World. Fear on the Arabic Street. But no fear of wasting the lives of our young heroes on the front lines!

Well I tell you what. If we did to them what they did to US on 911 - ...... It would be the Islamic World that would fear "EMBOLDENING" US.

3,126 posted on 04/08/2004 9:46:41 AM PDT by TomasUSMC

No headline..!The Memo,the Memo..He Knew He knew! will be the mantra.

Good grief. I'm just a frumpy hobbit and I knew that terrorists were determined to attack America. I knew airplanes were ripe for high-jacking. Fercryingoutloud, we all knew. I saw it happening to Israelis on a weekly basis. The problem is that no one wanted to do anything to stop it. We had to take it on the chin before most people really cared. The general public didn't get worked up until it happened to civilians here.... I'm sorry to say that military deaths overseas didn't concern the masses. 9/11 brought it home. Suddenly, people didn't feel safe in their homes.

Can you imagine the response if George Bush had wanted to go into Afghanistan in July 2001? The idiots are criticizing Bush for not acting preemptively in 2001. They are criticizing him for acting preemptively in 2004.

I give up.

3,127 posted on 04/08/2004 9:46:56 AM PDT by Samwise (Kerry uses Botox so he can keep a straight face when he tells a whopper.)

Actually Kean asked the dems not to get too rough and the pubbies not to go too easy.Ben the Nasty was not listening.

3,128 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:01 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

To: Darlin'; Howlin; Miss Marple

Isakopf (SP) got moreinfo about Aug 7th brief and waht was in it. The commission called for declassification of the memo, thinks the WhiteHouse will have a hard time about not relasing it. Thinks it will have legs. Translation=he plans to see that it does.

He did huh??

OK .. who is the Mole in the 9/11 Commission??

3,129 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:14 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)

To: Constitution Day

Hey stranger! Glad to see you are able to keep up on the latest news. I think she talked faster in her openning statements then Michelle Malkin did at CPAC in hers.....just proves intelligent women have a lot to say.

3,130 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:17 AM PDT by tioga

If you don't like what Chris Matthews is trying to do today, STOP WATCHING HIM. PUNISH HIM BY TAKING AWAY 90% of his audience! It is US who watch that fool, not the left. TAKE AWAY HIS PROGRAM BY PUTTING HIS RATINGS ON THE FLOOR.

Join me in a Free Republic BOYCOTT of Chris Matthews!

TODAY, DAMMIT!

3,131 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:29 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache, but not quite worthy of Condi Rice.)

We were ALL victims on 9/11.

Yes, we were. Not in the same way, but we all were victims.

But what gives them the right to do this?

I'll bet you money this is part of that group that lived out in New Jersey, had their kids in private schools, drove big SUVs........and none of their husbands had life insurance or home mortgage.

You know, the ones that want US to keep them living in the style they've been accustomed to.

God, please forgive me for my vileness toward those women.

3,132 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:40 AM PDT by Howlin ("NO OVERRIDING EXTERNAL THREATS" -Bill Clinton, 12/2000)

Mathews, Isikoff, Andrea Mitchell....all interested in hyping this into a weapon of mass destruction for the administration. Ratings, readers, and partisan advantage for the democrats, that's their game. Lisa Myers didn't play the game, she gave facts which back up Rice's opinion of the report, but Mathews has ignored her..she won't be back today, that's for sure.

3,133 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:45 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@Chris Mathews = Brainfart.com)

There's a TRANSCRIPT out already?!?!?!

3,134 posted on 04/08/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by OXENinFLA

Oh, gee.....lemme guess.

3,135 posted on 04/08/2004 9:48:23 AM PDT by Howlin ("NO OVERRIDING EXTERNAL THREATS" -Bill Clinton, 12/2000)

What Spike Isikoff fails to realize is that if the August 6th memo had legs, the Dems on the Commission would have made a bigger deal of it than they did. If there was anything in that memo that they could have used to attack Rice with, they would have pounded away with it.

3,136 posted on 04/08/2004 9:48:28 AM PDT by mass55th

Bump for later reading

3,137 posted on 04/08/2004 9:48:38 AM PDT by GmbyMan (John Kerry-America's first Flip Flopper Hip Hopper!)

To: You Dirty Rats

"BONZAI!!!!!!"

Oh, I get it:
That's Japanese for "Using my sword, I'll turn you into a small tree!"

3,138 posted on 04/08/2004 9:48:40 AM PDT by Redbob

To: Conservababe

Anyone have a live steam to his program? I have searched and can't find one. Grrrrr

Try www.wbal.com.

They delete most of the commercials so there is often dead air. If you get there and don't hear anything, hold on for a bit.

3,139 posted on 04/08/2004 9:48:57 AM PDT by jackbill

These women are despicable.

Yes they are .. And they are giving the rest of the 9/11 Families a bad name for what they are doing

3,140 posted on 04/08/2004 9:49:00 AM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)

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