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Condoleezza Rice Says She’s `Proud’ of Decision to Invade Iraq?

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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.

“We’re now beginning to see that perhaps it’s not so popular to be a suicide bomber. We’re beginning to see that perhaps people are questioning whether Osama Bin Laden ought to really be the face of Islam,” Rice, 53, said in an interview to be broadcast this weekend on Bloomberg Television’s “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.”

“And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein,” said Rice, who was Bush’s national security adviser at the time of the March 2003 invasion. As of yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000 were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been “tougher than any of us really dreamed.”

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14 Responses to “Condoleezza Rice Says She’s `Proud’ of Decision to Invade Iraq?”

  1. Bill says:
    July 5, 2008 at 9:47 am

    re: She said the Iraq war has been “tougher than any of us really dreamed.”

    Oh really? Condi never really had much of an imagination and evidently she wasn’t around when Cheney warned against occupying Iraq and nation building during the first Gulf War.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnV4tMvI0ME

  2. JohnKonop says:
    July 5, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Bill

    Please do not use FACTS with NEOCONS they only say what they FEEL!

  3. bb says:
    July 5, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    Now Cheney is a “thinking person”…he learned more, changed his mind…if his name was Bob Barr, this flip-flop would be acceptable, even applauded by the neomarxists.

  4. JohnKonop says:
    July 5, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Bart

    How did Cheny do with his oil stocks and betting against dollar? YEA a real thinking man!

  5. Hugh says:
    July 6, 2008 at 6:51 am

    http://tinyurl.com/6kbn9t

  6. Al Swearengen says:
    July 6, 2008 at 11:13 am

    My portfolio was 100% gold as of November 2007, now it’s 75% gold and 25% BAM (Brookfield Asset Management)

    About to sell out of the gold position and put half of it in a 6 month CD.

    I’d advise everyone to reallocate $$ in their 401K plans accordingly…put a slice (for me it’s 50%) into a inflation protected bond fund, and the rest as far away from equities as possible. Stay away from the “horizon” funds, and study up on the emerging market funds your company offers.

    Anyone who is still holding out hope for the payoff from our government’s policies is a fool. Don’t do it to yourself. Put your political self on the other side of an impenetrable wall…away, far away from your life savings.

    The book is being rewritten right before our eyes.

  7. Al Swearengen says:
    July 6, 2008 at 11:15 am

    In other words…focus on “not losing” money while the bottom slowly shows itself.

  8. bb says:
    July 6, 2008 at 11:24 am

    I don’t know John, how did Cheney do since becoming VP after having put all his assets in a blind trust?

  9. Al Swearengen says:
    July 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    bb – the story was from over a year ago. It’s out there…maybe I blogged on it at the time.

  10. Hugh says:
    July 6, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    I’m not proud to be an American anymore! But the saving grace is that the citizens did not know. They were at the time, and we are now, bamboozled!
    http://tinyurl.com/6oqtxd

  11. captain_menace says:
    July 6, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    “But the saving grace is that the citizens did not know.”

    Speak for yourself.

    Ignorance is not a defense.

  12. JohnKonop says:
    July 7, 2008 at 4:49 am

    FYI

    Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse?

    Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly. Cheney also does not think trade debt is a big issue. If VP Cheney is so bullish on the economy why is betting his investments against our economy?

    ICH-Wouldn’t you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you’d know whether his “deficits don’t matter” claim is just baloney or not.

    Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheney’s financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people for the umpteenth time. Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly.

    The article is called “Cheney’s betting on bad news” and provides an account of where Cheney has socked away more than $25 million. While the figures may be estimates, the investments are not. According to Tom Blackburn of the Palm Beach Post, Cheney has invested heavily in “a fund that specializes in short-term municipal bonds, a tax-exempt money market fund and an inflation protected securities fund. The first two hold up if interest rates rise with inflation. The third is protected against inflation.”

    Cheney has dumped another (estimated) $10 to $25 million in a European bond fund which tells us that he is counting on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing his wealth in “Old Europe”. As Blackburn sagely notes, “Not all ‘bad news’ is bad for everybody.”

    This should put to rest once and for all the foolish notion that the “Bush Economic Plan” is anything more than a scam aimed at looting the public till. The whole deal is intended to shift the nation’s wealth from one class to another. It’s also clear that Bush-Cheney couldn’t have carried this off without the tacit approval of the thieves at the Federal Reserve who engineered the low-interest rate boondoggle to put the American people to sleep while they picked their pockets.

    Reasonable people can dispute that Bush is “intentionally” skewering the dollar with his lavish tax cuts, but how does that explain Cheney’s portfolio?

    It doesn’t. And, one thing we can say with metaphysical certainty is that the miserly Cheney would never plunk his money into an investment that wasn’t a sure thing. If Cheney is counting on the dollar tanking and interest rates going up, then, by Gawd, that’s what’ll happen.

    The Bush-Cheney team has racked up another $3 trillion in debt in just 6 years. The US national debt now stands at $8.4 trillion dollars while the trade deficit has ballooned to $800 billion nearly 7% of GDP.

    This is lunacy. No country, however powerful, can maintain these staggering numbers. The country is in hock up to its neck and has to borrow $2.5 billion per day just to stay above water. Presently, the Fed is expanding the money supply and buying back its own treasuries to hide the hemorrhaging from the public. Its utter madness.

    Last month the trade deficit climbed to $70 billion. More importantly, foreign central banks only purchased a meager $47 billion in treasuries to shore up our ravenous appetite for cheap junk from China.

    Do the math! They’re not investing in America anymore. They are decreasing their stockpiles of dollars. We’re sinking fast and Cheney and his pals are manning the lifeboats while the public is diverted with gay marriage amendments and “American Celebrity”.

    The American manufacturing sector has been hollowed out by cutthroat corporations who’ve abandoned their country to make a fast-buck in China or Mexico. The $3 trillion housing (equity) bubble is quickly loosing air while the anemic dollar continues to sag. All the signs indicate that the economy is slowing at the same time that energy prices continue to rise.

    This is the onset of stagflation; the dreaded combo of a slowing economy and inflation.

    Did Americans really think they’d be spared the same type of economic colonization that has been applied throughout the developing world under the rubric of “neoliberalism”?

    Well, think again. The American economy is barrel-rolling towards earth and there are only enough parachutes for Cheney and the gang.

    The country has lost 3 million jobs from outsourcing since Bush took office; more than 200,000 of those are the high-paying, high-tech jobs that are the life’s-blood of every economy.

    Consider this from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) June edition of Foreign Affairs, the Bible of globalists and plutocrats:

    “Between 2000 and 2003 alone, foreign firms built 60,000manufacturing plants in China. European chemical companies, Japanese carmakers, and US industrial conglomerates are all building factories in China to supply export markets around the world. Similarly, banks, insurance companies, professional-service firms, and IT companies are building R&D and service centers in India to support employees, customers, and production worldwide.” (“The Globally integrated Enterprise” Samuel Palmisano, Foreign Affairs page 130)

    “60,000manufacturing plants” in 3 years?!?

    “Banks, insurance companies, professional-service firms, and IT companies”?

    No job is safe. American elites and corporate tycoons are loading the boats and heading for foreign shores. The only thing they’re leaving behind is the insurmountable debt that will be shackled to our children into perpetuity and the carefully arranged levers of a modern police-surveillance state.

    Welcome to Bush’s 21st Century gulag; third world luxury in a Guantanamo-type setting.

    Take another look at Cheney’s investment strategy; it tells the whole ugly story. Interest rates are going up, the middle class is going down, and the poor dollar is headed for the dumpster. The country is not simply teetering on the brink of financial collapse; it is being thrust headfirst by the blackguards in office and their satrapies at Federal Reserve.

  13. David O'Rear says:
    July 7, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Michelle Obama is proud to be an American, but someone who calls himself “Hugh” isn’t.

  14. Hugh says:
    July 8, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    That’s right David. Did you read the posting I offered in my post #10 by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts? That goes a long way in helping to explain where I’m coming from. David, are you proud of what has been going on in our nation for some years now?

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