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Missile Counter-Attack Axworthy fires back at U.S. -- and Canadian -- critics of our BMD decision in An Open Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thu Mar 3 2005 By LLOYD AXWORTHY Dear Condi, I'm glad you've decided to get over your fit of pique and venture north to visit your closest neighbour. It's a chance to learn a thing or two. Maybe more. I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even...

The US Secretary of State has blamed a Syrian-based Islamic militant group for last week's deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Condoleezza Rice said "the Syrians have a lot to answer for". The suicide attack outside a nightclub on Friday killed five people and threatened to wreck Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. "There is evidence that Islamic Jihad, headquartered in Syria, was in fact involved with the planning of those attacks in Tel Aviv," Ms Rice told ABC news. "And so the Syrians have a lot to answer for." Ms Rice was speaking after attending a conference in London on the future...

In the Feb. 15 edition of The American Thinker, Steven M. Warshawsky wrote a thought-provoking piece entitled “Beware the Condi bandwagon" that, essentially, warned the gathering numbers of “Rice for President” supporters that Sec. Rice cannot win the presidency in 2008, nor is she qualified to do so at this point in her career. A response from one of the passengers on this bandwagon seems apt. Mr. Warshawsky is right – not a lot of people start a career in elective politics by running for the White House. To do so is daring to be sure, but it is not...

It started about a week ago - CNN opened the firing shot against Venezuela's brutal dictator in an expose on his manipulation of oil prices on the Lou Dobbs show. That was enough to upset Hugo Chavez's press acolytes, who whined about it here, upset in particular about CNN's straightforward reference to Chavez as a 'strongman.' Fox News returned fire last Friday, with Brit Hume's Grapevine show reporting Hugo Chavez's filthy televised talk show about having sex with distinguished US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Last night, CNN had another detailed item on Chavez's efforts to ship oil via Iran...

Condi Rice has garnered the scorn of her Democratic colleagues, not because of what she has accomplished, but because of who and what she is. She is a black American, who is guilty of an unspeakable crime in liberal eyes. Her crime? She does not worship at the altar of the Democratic Party. Condi Rice has committed the unpardonable sin. She has dared to carve out her own political path while black.

Sweetness and RiceBy Fraser NelsonJanuary 24, 2005 The Scotsman  http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=87552005 ALABAMA GIRL: Condoleezza Rice learned from a very young age to aim high.THE BOMB shook the floorboards where Condoleezza Rice stood: two miles away, one of her schoolfriends was already dead under the rubble of the church wall blown up by the Ku Klux Klan. This was Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 - the most bitterly segregated town in America, where restaurants, bars, buses, schools and shop fitting-rooms were out of bounds to kids with the wrong skin colour. "Fight them with your mind," Rice’s parents taught her. Four decades later,...

Hugo Chavez on Condolencia Rice (verbatim): “Give me the “I can do it” (reading) method, to send it to Condolencia, who continues to show she is a total illiterate. It seems that she dreams with me, I am capable of inviting her to a meeting to see what happens with me. First she said she was mad. The next day she said she was sad and depressed because of Chavez. Oh daddy! Forget about me. What bad luck that lady has. I won’t do that sacrifice for the country. Let someone else do it. Cristobal Jimenez, Nicolas Maduro or Juan...

On Tuesday, January 18th and Wednesday, January 19th, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a confirmation hearing for her appointment as Secretary of State. Dr. Rice's confirmation hearing must not be a rubber stamp of President Bush's appointment. The Senate must take its "advice and consent" role seriously. That's why, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, I intend to stand up and ask Condoleezza Rice the tough questions that Americans deserve to have answered. Questions like: Why did the United States go to war in Iraq based on misleading --...

The Congress of Racial Equality blasted Sen. Robert Byrd on Thursday for holding up full Senate confirmation for Secretary of State-nominee Condoleezza Rice, denouncing the former Ku Klux Klansman as an unreconstructed "racist." "It's not surprising," CORE spokesman Niger Innis told NewsMax. "Byrd was a racist 50 years ago under the guise of leading the Dixiecrats and he's a non-reformed Dixiecrat today." Innis said the only difference between the Robert Byrd of the 1950s and now is, "He's got black colleagues in the House and the Senate who apologize for him." The Senate had been poised to confirm Dr. Rice...

BC-Senate-Rice, 14th Ld,320 URGENT Rice given approval by Senate panel; Democrats will delay confirmation at least until next week Eds: TOPS to UPDATE with Democratic plans By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats intend to delay Condoleezza Rice's confirmation as secretary of state at least until next week rather than grant her Inauguration Day approval, a spokesman said Wednesday. "There are a number of Democrats not on the committee that want to have a chance to debate her nomination a couple of hours," said Manley, a spokesman for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. He...

Kerry states support for bi-partisanship and hope for success for Condi as Secretary of State BEFORE he actually votes against her. He just can't help himself. He is his own's best devil's advocate. This man just can't help but argue with himself.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Condoleezza Rice pledged Tuesday to work to mend ties with allies frayed by the war in Iraq. "The time for diplomacy is now," she told senators at her confirmation hearing to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.Rice insisted that the administration's actions in the aftermath of Sept. 11, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, were "difficult, and necessary and right."She promised to work to strengthen ties with old and new allies.And, she said in prepared testimony, "If confirmed, I will work with members of Congress, from both sides of the aisle, to build a strong bipartisan...

Rice faces big test with Senate hearings Tough questioning expected this week By James Brosnan SCRIPPS HOWARD January 16, 2005 WASHINGTON – National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who in college feared she was destined to play show tunes in a piano bar, faces a demanding gig next week before climbing another rung up from the segregation of her childhood in Alabama. On the eve of President Bush's inauguration Thursday, his nominee for secretary of state is expected to face tough questions at Senate confirmation hearings about her own credibility and administration policies in Iraq, where more than 1,300 U.S. service...

http://netwmd.com/articles/article849.html Baghdad, Iraq — Half past ten in the morning on Monday, January 3, an Iraqi National Guard unit, escorted by a dozen uniformed U.S. military, pulled up to Abdul Karim Muhammadawi's headquarters in the Hay al-Jamiah section of Baghdad. Muhammadawi, known to the Iraqis as Abu Hatem, is renowned among Iraqi Shia as "the Robin Hood of the marshes." Hailing from al-Amarah, during Saddam's rule, he led a persistent Shia resistance which harried local Baathist commanders and protected political opposition. A member of the now-defunct governing council, he has since joined the Iraqi National Alliance (al-Ittilaf al-Watani al-Iraqi), the...

Condi Rice's elegance and grace, especially when compared to former SecState Madeline Albright, are a bonus in our soon-to-be Secretary of State.

Perhaps we have finally reached a turning point in which the Gordian Knot tying African Americans to the Democratic Party may finally be severed. The spectacle of white male leftists demeaning Condoleeza Rice as an Aunt Jemima, a black mammy out of Gone With the Wind, and a thick-lipped (!) bird (don't they have beaks?) may be the slap in the face necessary to wake up the majority of black people from their slumber in the tender arms of the left.

MILWAUKEE — A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state. John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration. Rice has served as President Bush's national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell as secretary of state. Sylvester, who is white, also referred to...

The new US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, is a close friend of President Bush and his former foreign policy tutor. The 50-year-old is renowned for her intellect and her passion for football. She is also an accomplished classical pianist.Below are a selection of her own comments on subjects as diverse as Baghdad and Brahms.   IRAQ It's just nonsense to say that because we've confronted it [the terrorist threat], we've created more of it. Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?October 2004There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam Hussein] can acquire...

Rice: War was right decision: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_264765.html  printed on October 22, 2004the same under title   Rice: Insurgents 'can't win': http://pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_264619.html Editor's note: Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, sat down with the Tribune-Review editorial board Thursday [October 21, 2004 ] for a wide-ranging question-and-answer session about national security issues. Today's portion of the interview deals primarily with the war in Iraq, the elections that will be held there in January, the search for Osama bin Laden and the global war on terror. Rice assesses a troubled world  http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_265031.html printed on October 23, 2004 Editor's note: Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national...

The reported appointment of Condoleeza Rice to the job of Secretary of State is yet another signal that President Bush plans fundamental changes in the way the government of the United States operates. The Department of State, like the Central Intelligence Agency, has long marched to its own drummer, often undermining or redirecting the policy initiatives it has received from above. Change is needed.