Sec Rice and the Truth
Why does Condoleezza Rice have so much trouble telling the truth?I heard her twice on this morning's news shows stating that Iraq drew us into to war three times.For such a smart person, how did she...
View ArticleOpen Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
In her NPR interview today, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice responded to these questions:And Guantanamo wasn't sort of the only issue that tarnished the U.S. image. There is also the treatment of...
View ArticleNone Dare Not Call For Impeachment
WASHINGTON DC: In a kingdom famously having something rotten in it, a young man remarked in dismay, The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, that ever we were born to set it right! So too the American...
View ArticleCondoleeza Rice Doesn't Understand Humility
From JOMOBlog.com:Condoleeza Rice Never Read Charlotte's WebIn an interview today on Meet The Press, David Gregory asked Condoleeza Rice whether she thought the world viewed America as "humble". The...
View ArticleThe Uses of Afghanistan
In August of this year, Jane Mayer was doing interviews to promote her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. During an interview with...
View ArticleRice gave Olmert political cover
I tend to believe Olmert's version of events though I don't believe it happened so dramatically. First, there is no way that the US would not veto any resolution that the Israelis would not feel they...
View ArticleBush pardons himself via Military Comm. Act?
There's no need to wait till Monday to find out about Bush's pardon list. That is, if Bush relies on the Military Commissions Act to protect himself and his torturing ghouls. That's because the Act...
View ArticleSimple Response for Simpleton
After Dick Cheney feasted on the blood of orphan children, he apparently thinks people still care what he thinks. My response:Cheney you should be worry about UN-securing your spot in HELL, rather than...
View ArticleNo One Could Have Imagined a 3 book deal for Condi
Obviously in a tight economy publishers will gamble on anything. In times of such despair and hopelessness we need a good laugh at Condi's expense.NEW YORK — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
View ArticleOther things Condi Rice hopes we understand
Condi Rice hopes we understand --that missions only stay accomplished when Congress doesn't question the President.that Afghanistan is too wild and lawless to be worth any attention for very long.that...
View ArticleThe Depths of Cowardice: "We were all so terrified..."
I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country. September 11 was the worst day of my life in government, watching 3,000 Americans...
View ArticleCommunity of Stanford University Circulate Petition Calling Prof. Rice to...
Anyone out there who may have been associated with Stanford University and does not yet have access to the petition calling on the University to bring Prof. Condoleezza Rice to account?
View ArticleVENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYETH THE LORD...
Fine, you can have your vengeance. I WANT JUSTICE!
View Article"The Trauma of 9/11 Is No Excuse"
The Bush/Cheney administration's last ditch effort at justifying their actions is to hide behind 9/11. Their argument has essentially become, "well you weren't there, you don't know what it was like."...
View ArticleFor Gazan Students, An Obstacle Course To Nowhere
"If you cannot engage young people and give them a complete horizon to their expectations and to their dreams, then I don't know that there would be any future for Palestine" then-Secretary Of State...
View ArticleWho ordered the rendition of Abu Omar?
Just handed down by a court in Milan, Italy were convictions for the 2003 extraordinary rendition kidnapping of Imam Abu Omar, also known as Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the streets of Milan.From...
View ArticleBREAKING: Criminal Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet et...
BREAKING, RUSH TRANSCRIPT, PRESS RELEASE, FRANCIS BOYLE, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. ACTION ITEM IN BOLD BELOW. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, ET AL;...
View ArticleTo Whom to Give for Xmas (hint: it ain't the unemployed)
In light of the poor economy, many people losing their homes, and the expiration of unemployment benefits for millions who do you suppose those kind, sensitive, and warm-hearted folks of the...
View ArticleRice: Bush bullhorn speech 'most important moment maybe in American history'
What is there to say to this?BRIAN KILMEADE: The president in his speech — did a great job on his speech Sunday night — talked about coming together like we did on 9/11, he wants to see it happen...
View ArticleO'Donnell V. Rice
The Mad Lefty, signing on for the first time...I just watched an intense interview of former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, conducted by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. Now, to be fair, I admit that...
View ArticleO'Donnell's Grilling of Condi Rice
Last Night Lawrence gave Condoleeza Rice what just might the Interview of her life. Or at least since her last big interview on Face the Nation & This WeekThat was good, but this one had bite!.Part...
View ArticleWith Obama's Victory, Bush's Entire Cynical Strategy Is Now Naked To All
Here's a very clear, concise post from a commenter on CNN in response to O'Donnell's interview with Condoleeza Rice. It consolidates everything I believed, and continue to believe, about the Bush...
View ArticleCondoleeza Rice (wrongly) claims Canada supported Iraq War
Via ThinkProgress:Last night, during a contentious interview with Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell wondered if Saddam Hussein “was the same threat to New Yorkers...
View ArticlePreserve, Protect and Posture
The Washington Post, reviewing Ron Suskind's book, The One Percent Solution, described one of its anecdotes, likely from former CIA director George Tenet or one of his allies:an unnamed CIA briefer ......
View Article"Mushroom Cloud" Condi Rice Has Another Bad Day in Class
Does anyone hear where she said "go to hell"? (VIDEO BELOW) Now now, Condi. Over 5,000 soldiers' lives, countless Iraqis (we don't count them) and $5 trillion of your tax money later, Condi still has...
View ArticleCondi's World: Fantasy and Post Hoc Fallacies
Originally published at Fair and UnbalancedCondoleeza Rice, George W. Bush's former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, has a disturbing habit of engaging in fantasy. For example, her...
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From Far-Right Front-Runner to Fossil Fuel: Struthiomimus Santorum Extinction...
Unable to deny the petroglyphs on the wall, Struthiomimus Santorum, considered by some to be the only true challenger to Brontosaurus Romneii, has "suspended" his quest for...
View ArticleRomney $50K Per Person Fundraiser: Chateaubriand at the Chateau, Part Deux...
Meg Whitman, fresh off her Hewlett-Packard layoff tour, hosted a lavish Romney fundraising event last night at the swanky Chateau Carolands in Hillsborough, California. In case you missed my previous...
View ArticleDino-Extinction Paleo-Retrospective: Don't You Miss These Crazy Cretaceous...
It’s been a while since I wrote a dino-extinction diary. During the primary season, we witnessed the untimely (too late, rather than too soon, in this case) extinction of a number of GOPasaurs who...
View ArticleVeepasaurs! Who Will Survive; Who's Teetering On The Brink Of Extinction?
Since we're apparently still faced with the dispiriting prospect of Brontosaurus romneii fumbling, stumbling, and bumbling his way to the GOP nomination, let's turn our attention to the vast (or...
View ArticleVetting The Veep: Your Complete Guide (In Limerick Form)
Mitt's Mission Impossible will be finding someone with human attributes, charismatic charm, swing-state connections, demographic and/or gender appeal, and the willingness to slip their head into an...
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The Audacity of Hope vs The Mendacity of Dopes
As the speakers at the Republican Convention talk about the American Dream (link, link, link, link, link, link), I couldn't help but note how they are destroying something they all see to agree about....
View Article9/11 and Politics... A Request for One Day Off from the Campaigns
Tomorrow is 9/11... and I personally hope that neither Governor Romney nor President Obama go to Ground Zero to offer remarks. I am a political person, but I'd like to keep tomorrow as clean of...
View ArticleNY Times reminds us how deaf George Bush was to terrorist threats prior to 9/11
When Condoleeza Rice recently spoke at the RNC convention to thundering applause, I was flabbergasted. Here is the first US Secretary of State to preside over a deadliest attack on US soil and who not...
View ArticleDear Condi
I was appalled by your speech at the RNC. But I figured not a lot of people heard it. I kind of tuned you out myself. No one wants to talk about the failed policies of the Bush adminstration, the...
View ArticleMore on 9/11
I posted this on 5 Oct http://www.dailykos.com/... but I was struck by an Op-Ed in the NY Times a week later. http://www.nytimes.com/... It turns out that Bush received specific warnings all through...
View ArticleMcBitter McCain too busy hammering Susan Rice for the cameras to attend...
Sen. John McCain was so busy Wednesday attacking Susan Rice over statements she made in the aftermath of the murderous attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that he skipped an official...
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In The Good Old Days, When Presidents Were Able To Select Their Cabinet
Republicans got their scalp with Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration for Secretary of State. Not too much gloating here and they blame her 'dismal performance' in talking about Benghazi...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation Immigration Study Is Light on Substance, Heavy on Flaws
“ALERT: NCLR has oceanfront property for sale in Arizona available to the highest bidder.”If you believe that, then you’ll believe the results of a new(ish) Heritage Foundation study which claims that...
View ArticleTwelve Years Ago Today
On this date in 2001, while vacationing (as usual) in Crawford, Texas, George W. Bush received at President's Daily Intelligence Brief (PDB) which contained the following, entitled, "Bin Ladin...
View ArticleIt's not just anti-gay CEOs who are Kryptonite!
For the techies among us, I thought this little announcement might provoke some glee:Dropbox Sees Backlash to Condoleeza Rice AppointmentThe lead paragraph from the story:Dropbox today announced a...
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Protest is speech: Eich, Hirsi Ali, Sterling, Rice and Obama
President Obama at the 2009 Notre Dame commencement ceremony. Recently, there has been a rash of misunderstanding of what "free speech" means and a failure to understand that protest is speech. The two...
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Today's the anniversary of infamous Bush PDB on Bin Laden
George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney August 6, 2001. That's when President George W. Bush, on one of his numerous vacations, was given a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) entitled "Bin Laden...
View ArticleUpdate on Saleh v. Bush about War on Iraq - (N.D. Cal. 2014) – Now in Ninth...
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is being asked to hear a claim that the US-led Iraq war was illegal under laws formed because of the Nuremberg trials in the wake of World War II....
View ArticleIndictments will be long: State sent unsecured "classified" e-mails during...
A point I have tried to make a number of times on the "Eghazi: It's Classified!""scandal" is that the originators of the "classified" e-mails were career State Department officials. Thus, I noted that...
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States Refusing Refugees also sued Obama Admin. Over Immigration Executive...
A majority of states that have announced their refusal to take Syrian refugees also sued President Obama over executive orders he took to protect undocumented immigrants in the US.21 of the states that...
View ArticleRepublicans' lesson for Democrats: Next president must 'look backwards' at...
If nothing else, Republicans over the past few weeks have delivered an important civics lesson to the American people in general—and Democrats in particular. Facing a growing mountain of irrefutable...
View ArticleNikki Haley Plays the Fear Card, Warns of Chemical Attacks in the US.
Nikki Haley warned Chris Wallace on Fox News that if we aren’t careful, there will be a chemical weapons attack in America.“This very easily could happen in the United States if we're not smart, and if...
View ArticleWelcome to 2018. Bush administration officials get another chance to defend...
This is what happened when the Bush administration was allowed by President Obama to go away quietly and not have to face any kind of retribution for war crimes, for lying the country into an endless...
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In the progressive blogosphere, a Sanders nomination may feel like a very...
NetrootsWhat are the roots of the progressive blogosphere? The medium you’re reading now, in its early years, was of course the place for progressive writers to speak out against George W. Bush’s war...
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