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Now that Condoleezza Rice has been nominated to be the next secretary of state, the whole world seems to be noticing that George Bush is stuffing his second-term cabinet with yes men and women. It's worrisome, although when the president did have dissident voices in the top tier of his administration, he did a very thorough job of ignoring them. Optimists can regard the new team as a more efficient packaging of the status quo. Our concern about Ms. Rice is not that she makes the president feel comfortable. It's that as national security adviser, she seemed to tell him...

US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice did not have the compassion needed to be secretary of state, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said. Senator Brown criticised Dr Rice, who has been nominated by US President George W Bush to take over from outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell. "Condoleezza Rice is not a warm human being," Senator Brown told reporters. "She's George W Bush's echo. "But she's lacking the compassion we need to see in the office of secretary of state for the most powerful nation on the planet." Senator Brown said there was a ruthlessness about Dr Rice...

PARIS -- In Europe, it's hard for some to think of Condoleezza Rice -- Colin Powell's expected replacement as U.S. secretary of state -- without recalling the low points in trans-Atlantic relations that grew out of the war in Iraq. After all, it was Rice who raised eyebrows last year with her Machiavellian suggestions for how Washington should treat European opponents of the U.S.-led invasion. "Punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia," Rice was widely quoted as telling associates in the spring of 2003. Trans-Atlantic ties have since improved to some extent. But Rice's reputation still precedes her. "Condie Rice...

Best possible sign of Condoleezza Rice's excellent qualifications to be secretary of state: The notoriously anti-American bureaucrats who infest Foggy Bottom despise her. More proof of Rice's backbone: The weaselly French don't like her either. According to the Associated Press, the axis of weasel is in a dither over something "Rice was widely quoted as telling associates" in the spring of 2003: "Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia."

November 16, 2004 President Announces Nomination of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State The Roosevelt Room     President's Remarks view listen  12:33 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. I'm pleased to announce my nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be America's Secretary of State. Condi Rice is already known to all Americans, and to much of the world. During the last four years I've relied on her counsel, benefited from her great experience and appreciated her sound and steady judgment. And now I'm honored that she has agreed to serve in my Cabinet. The Secretary of State is...

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has a nickname for Condoleezza Rice, his choice as the next secretary of state: "The unsticker." Bush put the name on Rice, his national security adviser for the past four years, because he said she helped "unstick" problems in Iraq that got caught up in the gears of government.

Colin Powell's departure as Secretary of State is being seen in the circles that lost the recent election as the departure of the last Administration "moderate," whatever that word is supposed to mean. But we suspect President Bush sees it as his chance to select a successor who can turn the diplomatic corps into an ally and advocate of his foreign policy.

Colin Powell has resigned, and will likely be replaced by National Security Advisor Condi Rice . This isn't an unusual move, as Rice won't be the first National Security Advisor to move to State. And there are a lot of advantages: President Bush is obviously very comfortable with her and with her judgment, and she's undoubtedly up to speed on events. And they're used to working together in secrecy.

President Bush has chosen national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state in his second term, a senior administration official said Monday. Powell, a retired four-star general who often clashed with more hawkish members of the administration on Iraq (news - web sites) and other foreign policy issues, resigned in a Cabinet exodus that promises a starkly different look to President Bush's second-term team. The White House on Monday announced Powell's exit along with the resignations of Education Secretary Rod Paige, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham (news - web sites). Veneman...

National Security Adviser Is Bush's Choice to Replace Powell Nov. 15, 2004 — National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will be nominated to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state, ABC News has learned. Senior administration sources confirmed that Rice would be Bush's choice. The news comes just hours after the White House announced Powell had submitted his resignation.Rice, considered to be one of the president's closest counselors, has served as national security adviser since Bush first took office.

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is "likely" to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state, senior administration officials told CBS News on condition of anonymity.

Retired CIA Director George Tenet is said to blame Condoleezza Rice for not keeping America safe from the 9/11 attacks in a book proposal for his memoir currently being shopped to publishers. -snip- "He claims she was incompetent, that she didn't do her job" before 9/11, the source said. Adding to the speculation is the involvement in the book project of Robert Barnett - the onetime Whitewater lawyer for Bill and Hillary Clinton who negotiated record book deals for the former first couple. Barnett is currently shopping the Tenet proposal.

Special Dispatch Series - No. 808 October 29, 2004 No.808 Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice Explain America's Middle East Policies to the Arab Media   This week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice each published a column in the London daily Al-Hayat. Both officials wrote about U.S. foreign policy in the post-9/11 world, outlined the future of the U.S. War on Terror, and advocated American policies in the Middle East. The following are excerpts from the articles, published online in English:Colin Powell: 'The War on Terror...

The Kerry-Edwards campaign came out swinging Wednesday against President George W. Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who has traveled to battleground states to campaign for President Bush. Sen. John Edwards, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's running mate, said Dr. Rice "shouldn't take the time to go on a campaign trip for George Bush" at a time when "the violence in Iraq is spinning out of control, Osama bin Laden remains at large, and North Korea and Iran have increased their nuclear capabilities." "For all its fear mongering on the war on terror, this White House has a greater...

If Bush is reelected Rice to become Defense Secretary With nine days to the US presidential elections, the Washington Post is already predicting who will be holding which office in the new administration if President George W. Bush is reelected. According to the Post, Bush is planning a major reshuffle in his administration if he were to win a new term: Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, might well become the first female Pentagon chief, replacing Ronald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary. Rice on the other hand, is most likely to be replaced by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D....

Democrats upset over Rice's speaking tour Claim it's inappropriate use of her office National security adviser appears in contested states TERENCE HUNT ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct. 21, 2004. 01:00 AM WASHINGTON—Condoleezza Rice, the White House national security adviser, is giving a flurry of speeches in political battleground states in the closing days of the campaign, bringing allegations from Senator John Kerry's camp that she is injecting herself into the U.S. presidential race. "George Bush will go to any length to cling to power, even if it means diverting his national security adviser from doing her job," Senator John Edwards, Kerry's running...

WASHINGTON -- National security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended her characterization of Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities in the months before the Iraq invasion, even as a published report said government experts had cast doubt at the time. In the run-up to the March 2003 war, Rice said in a television interview in 2002 that the Iraqi president was trying to obtain high-strength aluminum tubes to rebuild his nuclear weapons program. The tubes, she said, were "really only suited for nuclear weapons programs." On Sunday, Rice acknowledged she was aware of a debate among U.S. intelligence agencies about whether those...

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...