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Reuters is off to the races with the NYT-inspired conspiracy theory regarding Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld supposedly suppressing information about the non-existence of Saddam's nuke program: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials were aware some pre-war evidence cited to make the case against Iraq's Saddam Hussein was questionable but U.S. intelligence officials nonetheless deemed the threat of his developing nuclear weapons credible, top White House aides said on Sunday. President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, one top aide who cited the claims about aluminum tubes seized in Jordan in June 2001 in urging that Saddam was attempting to revive a nuclear program,...

International Support Gaining in Iraq, Rice Says By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2004 -- The key to winning the war in Iraq is to support the Iraqis as they take on responsibility for their own future, and the international community is increasingly doing just that, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said today. Rice told George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" talk show this morning that the international community is stepping up to the plate to be a part of "an opportunity to build a different kind of Iraq as a lynchpin for a much different...

Rice: Bush Didn't Mock France in Speech WILLIAM C. MANN Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush has brought the oldest ally of the United States into his re-election campaign as a reason not to vote for his opponent, Sen. John Kerry. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice denied Sunday that Bush was holding France up to ridicule for saying in a campaign speech that Kerry would let "countries like France" decide when to use American force. Bush's audience in Allentown, Pa., booed at the mention of France. "There's no ridicule here. It's a statement of fact: The French didn't agree," Rice...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraq is not "falling into civil war," although the country faces a "very difficult situation," US President George W. Bush's national security adviser said, just hours ahead of the president's speech to the UN General Assembly. "There's no evidence that the Iraqis are falling into civil war," Condoleezza Rice told NBC television's "Today" show. "Quite the opposite. Kurds and Shia and Sunnis are working together to build a new Iraq." She said "it's a very difficult situation in Iraq, because we've overthrown a dictator who ruled with an iron fist and Iraq is making a difficult march...

Attacks Won't Stop Iraqi Elections, Rice Says By John D. BanusiewiczAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2004 – Many other milestone events have taken place in Iraq despite violence in the country, and this winter's scheduled elections are "entirely possible," the president's national security adviser said today. Condoleezza Rice, appearing on "CBS' Face the Nation," told host Bob Schieffer that despite instability, Iraq has not missed a step in its progress. "I just want to remind people, we weren't going to be able to transfer sovereignty, we weren't going to be able to get an Iraqi government, we...

French connection armed Saddam By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The United States stood by for years as supposed allies helped its enemies obtain the world's most dangerous weapons, reveals Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, in the new book "Treachery" (Crown Forum). In this excerpt, he details France's persistence in arming Saddam Hussein. First of three excerpts New intelligence revealing how long France continued to supply and arm Saddam Hussein's regime infuriated U.S. officials as the nation prepared for military action against Iraq. The intelligence reports showing French assistance to Saddam ongoing in the...

The GOP’s MIAs George Bush’s national security team was absent in NYC,and might not make it to a second term either NEW YORK - Walking the streets of this city this week, what strikes a journalist as strange is not so much who is here, but rather who is not. One large group gone missing might be referred to as genus Manhattanis. New York’s central borough seems emptied of New Yorkers, along with its sub-group, genus Suburbius commutis. The former decamp at this time of year anyway for exotic locales like Quahog and Remsenburg out on Long Island, while the...

American National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has been named the most powerful woman in the world. The US President's right hand woman topped a list including politicians, royalty and showbiz names. Second in the Forbes rundown was China's vice-premier Wu Li with Sonia Gandhi, president of India's Congress Party. George Bush's wife saw her role as America's First Lady propel her to fourth with her predecessor Senator Hilary Clinton next. In sixth and seventh respectively were American supreme court justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Ginsburg. Indonesia's president Megawati Sukarnoputri was eighth, president of the Philippines Gloria Arroyo at nine...

Excerpts: Condoleezza Rice at the U.S. Institute of Peace For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary August 19, 2004v Remarks by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice Followed by Question and Answer to the U.S. Institute of Peace Washington, D.C. 19 August 2004 www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040819-5.html...And America has worked to find a lasting solution to the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. No matter who is in office, no matter from what party, American Presidents have cared to try to find peace in the Holy Land. In doing so, we stand these days with the Palestinian people who seek democracy and reform....

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defending President Bush's foreign policies, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice counseled Americans to be ``less critical of every twist and turn'' in Iraq. ``We need to be more patient with people who are making those early steps'' toward a working multiethnic democracy, Rice said Thursday as U.S. troops fought a bloody battle with insurgents in the slums of Baghdad and Iraqi forces searched for ways to subdue insurgent militias in Najaf. Rice said it took the United States a long time to achieve democratic goals. And so far, said Rice, an African-American, Iraq's postwar leaders have not...

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice yesterday urged patience for President Bush's plan to spread democracy throughout the Middle East, saying that most Muslims don't know the "simple truths" of religious tolerance that Americans take for granted. In an address to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Miss Rice decried the "tendency toward impatience with every twist and turn in Iraq." She also suggested that the country has a lower hurdle to leap toward tolerance and unity because, unlike the United States, it does not have to overcome a legacy of slavery. "These are people in their first stages of democratic development,"...

US President George W. Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Thursday expressed support for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan, describing it as an initiative that could lead to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Speaking at the US Institute of Peace a day after the Likud Party convention voted to block Labor from joining the government and helping implement settlement dismantlement, Rice urged Israel once again to "take steps to improve the lives of the Palestinian people and to remove the daily humiliations that harden the hearts of future generations." She urged Israel to "live up to their...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's top security aide said on Thursday the United States had not done enough to reach out to the world's more than 1 billion Muslims, many of whom are critical of the Iraq war and see a pro-Israeli bias in U.S. Middle East policy. White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the Bush administration wanted to encourage "voices of moderation and tolerance and pluralism" in the Muslim world, and dispel an image that the United States is a "crass" culture. It has pursued such goals in the past, but with little success, and Rice acknowledged...

Dr. Rice told Hannity that she has no plans to run for office. Says she has "respect" for those who do. She will go to NYC with Bush but won't stay for the convention...has some more intelligence work to do. Also said she was a CA delegate in 2000. [that I didn't know]

Like despotic rulers everywhere, the extremist Muslim clerics who run Iran consider the people their greatest enemy. That is why, says U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Iran’s rulers are worried about the movement toward democracy in Iraq: “They’re aware that trends in Iraq toward a government that would be democratic, that would not be theocratic, like the Iranian regime -- would be Islamic, but not theocratic -- would expose some of the weaknesses of the Iranian regime. I think they fear nothing more; the mullahs fear nothing more than their own people, and they fear nothing more, therefore, than...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With Iran stepping up its nuclear program, a top White House aide said Sunday the world finally is ``worried and suspicious'' over the Iranians' intentions and is determined not to let Tehran produce a nuclear weapon. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice also said the Bush administration sees a new international willingness to act against Iran's nuclear program. She credited the changed attitude to the Americans' insistence that Iran's effort put the world in peril. She would not say whether the United States would act alone to end the program if the administration could not win international support....

I watched her give such a reasoned, well-stated defence of the Bush administrations' policies, and direction. She was unflappable, in the face of Tim (Tom?)'s probing to make the Bush folks look bad. He did not make a dent in W's armor. She is a great person to consider for nomination in our next election cycle. Hitlary would be easily contrasted...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of a new federal voting commission suggested to congressional leaders that there should be a process for canceling or rescheduling an election interrupted by terrorism, but national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said no such plan is being considered by the administration. Federal officials warned last week that intelligence indicates al-Qaida wants to attack the United States to disrupt the upcoming elections. "There does not appear to be a clear process in place to suspend or reschedule voting during an election if there is a major terrorist attack," DeForest B. Soaries, chairman of the U.S. Election...

China is getting edgy over a new US military strategy aimed at projecting force around the globe and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's visit last week was an attempt to calm Beijing down, analysts said. Rice's trip on Thursday and Friday came as the US military was rolling out an unprecedented deployment of naval power to the Pacific Ocean in what is officially being termed a military exercise, they said. "It is an unprecedented show of force and a return to gun boat diplomacy," Andrew Tam, a security expert at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore, told...

"So much is possible" for N. Korea in return for nuclear dismantlement: Rice (pushing for Libya-style settlement) foreign,frontpage,news Nkorea,kim jongil,nuke,kadhafi,skorea,rice,bush,libya AFP via Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040709/pl_afp/skorea_us_040709141650 "So much is possible" for NKorea in return for nuclear dismantlement: Rice SEOUL (AFP) - US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said North Korea (news - web sites) would be surprised at "how much will be possible" if the Stalinist state abandons its nuclear ambitions, South Korean officials said. The remarks came when Rice met with South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon in Seoul on the final leg of her Asian...