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In Memoir, Rice Tells of Clashes With Cheney
NYTimes ^ | 10-22-11 | Peter Baker

Posted on 10/22/2011 4:56:08 PM PDT by STARWISE

*snip*

First as national security adviser and later as secretary of state, Ms. Rice often argued against the hard-line approach that Mr. Cheney and others advanced. The vice president’s staff was “very much of one ultra-hawkish mind,” she writes, adding that the most intense confrontation between her and Mr. Cheney came when she argued that terrorism suspects could not be “disappeared” as in some authoritarian states.

In November 2001, she writes, she went to President George W. Bush upon learning that he had issued an order prepared by the White House counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, authorizing military commissions without telling her. “If this happens again,” she told the president, “either Al Gonzales or I will have to resign.”

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Love ya, Condi, but I'll take Cheney's guidance for protecting this nation every time over yours. Cheney rules! God bless and protect him.


1 posted on 10/22/2011 4:56:13 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: ohioWfan; DrDeb; Kaslin; snugs; silent_jonny; dmd25; pattyvita; baseballmom; DollyCali; NordP; ...

.. Ping!


2 posted on 10/22/2011 4:58:02 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

NICE PIC!!! And, I agree!


3 posted on 10/22/2011 4:58:12 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (The American Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.)
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To: STARWISE

I agree too. And isn’t it MUCH too soon for “tell all” books? I am amazed at the stuff some of these people blurt in print.


4 posted on 10/22/2011 5:01:17 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: jackibutterfly
ditto...Cheney knew what he was doing....It's war and it's called "interrogation".

Personally, never liked Condi...but it's more personality...

5 posted on 10/22/2011 5:04:12 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DJ MacWoW

Well, every former top admin official seems to get a publishing contract, but this seems so petty, and I suspect her nose is out of joint since Cheney already wrote about his disagreement with her ideas and so her way of getting a dig back at him. Sad ......


6 posted on 10/22/2011 5:05:03 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Dittos on Cheney!


7 posted on 10/22/2011 5:09:56 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire

I seriously doubt they’d just disappear. Certainly Cheney, or someone, would keep a record of the longitude and latitude where they were last seen.


8 posted on 10/22/2011 5:20:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: STARWISE

Never liked Condi: Wrong on abortion, wrong on Israel, wrong on Cheney. Ergo, RINO.


9 posted on 10/22/2011 5:22:05 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: STARWISE

Absolutely! I love Cheney!


10 posted on 10/22/2011 5:23:06 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: STARWISE

Chuck Norris wears Dick Cheney pajamas! :)


11 posted on 10/22/2011 5:26:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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12 posted on 10/22/2011 5:28:15 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: STARWISE

I love Dick Cheney, that dude’s got a set.


13 posted on 10/22/2011 5:29:44 PM PDT by jenk (The country needs Sarah Palin and the Constitution.)
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14 posted on 10/22/2011 5:36:03 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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...and a Middle East peace initiative that came achingly close to bringing Israelis and Palestinians together.

Ms. Rice offers several regrets. The way Mr. Bush rejected the Kyoto climate change treaty without promising to seek alternatives was a “self-inflicted wound,”

The first sentence can only have been written by a total fool. I don't know of anyone who has been on the planet more than 15 years who thinks the Arabs and Isrealis can agree to any lasting peace. It isn't gone to happen, no matter how many peace camps, Kumbaaya songs, whirled peas the liberals sing or dance or what any fat a@@ clintons does about it.

About so called global warming: Why is it that foolish people without any scientific learning always swallow the latest fad designed to give even more power to central government. GoreBull warming is a scam perpetrated by con men.

And this so called Republican swallows that bs? And Mr. Bush allowed her to pursue this policy?

16 posted on 10/22/2011 5:40:50 PM PDT by OldCorps
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Well, it is the Slimes so ... I snipped the essential
news.


17 posted on 10/22/2011 5:48:53 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Cheney rules.


18 posted on 10/22/2011 5:52:08 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: STARWISE

face it Condi: you were a quota hire.


19 posted on 10/22/2011 5:54:29 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
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To: STARWISE

Yup, she spoke Russian, played the piano and was said to be an expert on USSR. But, she certainly was way over her head on the ME issues, particularly re Iran & the Mullahs’ regime. Don’t forget she was also a registered democrat until 1982. I guess she never really gave up most of her dim political views.


20 posted on 10/22/2011 5:59:00 PM PDT by odds
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