Re: Condoleezza Rice Says She's `Proud' Of Decision To Invade Iraq

On Jul 4, 9:46 pm, Tiglath <te...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Condoleezza Rice Says She's `Proud' of Decision to Invade Iraq
>
> > By Janine Zacharia
>
> >  July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she's
> > ``proud'' of the U.S. decision to wage the Iraq war and insisted that
the
> > world is not more dangerous than it was when George W. Bush took
office.
>
> Hmmmm.
>
> That's a change.   I thought the official line was that the world was
> much safer because of Bush.
>
> Not it turns out, that it's only not more dangerous, which means that
> Bush made no difference.
>
> Sounds like surrendering the outworks to save the citadel.
>
> The reality is that Bush has made the world far less safe.  A lot more
> people wish us ill.   Many are militant about it, and a great number,
> including some of our allies, gloat at our misfortune.
>
> By embracing torture and the thing he is doing in Guantanamo, Bush has
> made the world less safe for Americans, both civilian and military.
>
> By the way, no one seems to notice the inconsistency of a deeply
> Christian president who refuses to love his enemies -- he prefers to
> va****ize their children.   Thus making Jesus' principal precept and
> Christianity's central tenet merery an ornament.
>
> It looks like Condi public 'service' is nearing its end.  Good
> riddance.   It would be hard to find a more incompentent and
> unaccomplished national security adviser and state secretary than
> Rice.
>
> Obscurity will hopefully be in her future away from public
> disservice.

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Well if the neocons had succeeded in stabilizing Iraq,
you would now be praising the Bush administration.
There was nothing fundamentally wrong about choosing
Iraq over Afghanistan as the arena for 9/11 revenge.
What went wrong was the management of the intervention.

I think the administration was right not to make Bin Ladin
a greater demon than Saddam Hussein.  Bin Ladin is just
another misguided fanatic.  Hussein of Baghdad was a greater
evil by any measure of  Western values.  Hussein is the
Islamic edition of Adolph Hitler.

Cheers, David H
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