<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Our New Secretary of State</title>
	<atom:link href="http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:36:37 -0500</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: prozac</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-401349</link>
		<dc:creator>prozac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-401349</guid>
		<description>&lt;strong&gt;prozac...&lt;/strong&gt;

Ecuador classification:proprietary Cuvier ambiguous depresses squirms atenolol http://atenolol.d-daystore.com/ ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>prozac&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Ecuador classification:proprietary Cuvier ambiguous depresses squirms atenolol <a href="http://atenolol.d-daystore.com/" rel="nofollow">http://atenolol.d-daystore.com/</a> &#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=401349', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: united states</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-373748</link>
		<dc:creator>united states</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-373748</guid>
		<description>Hi
Good site. It would be desirable to return again and again!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi<br />
Good site. It would be desirable to return again and again!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=373748', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: united states</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-369373</link>
		<dc:creator>united states</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-369373</guid>
		<description>By all hi! Good day! =)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By all hi! Good day! =)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=369373', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: 1568</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-203008</link>
		<dc:creator>1568</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-203008</guid>
		<description>&lt;strong&gt;1568&lt;/strong&gt;

You are invited to check the sites on 428 </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>1568</strong></p>
<p>You are invited to check the sites on 428<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=203008', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-93242</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-93242</guid>
		<description>&lt;strong&gt;payday loans&lt;/strong&gt;

Please take a look at the sites about home loans loans </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>payday loans</strong></p>
<p>Please take a look at the sites about home loans loans<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=93242', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501;</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-60830</link>
		<dc:creator>&#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-60830</guid>
		<description>&lt;strong&gt;&#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501;&lt;/strong&gt;

Here, now, go &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501; is just for you. No need for previous experience at &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501;. &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&amp;#1511...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501;</strong></p>
<p>Here, now, go &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501; is just for you. No need for previous experience at &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&#1511;&#1493; &#1499;&#1497;&#1493;&#1512;&#1497;&#1501;. &#1489;&#1500;&#1504;&amp;#1511&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=60830', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: R Batten</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1120</link>
		<dc:creator>R Batten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1120</guid>
		<description>Perhaps, no perjury charge since she wasn&#039;t under oath.  However, is an ethical violation possible?  Not that I&#039;m holding my breath on that possibility either.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps, no perjury charge since she wasn&#8217;t under oath.  However, is an ethical violation possible?  Not that I&#8217;m holding my breath on that possibility either.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1120', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Robin Potter</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1118</link>
		<dc:creator>Robin Potter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1118</guid>
		<description>Rice&#039;s 9-11 Testimony LINK:  C-Span - Search &quot;Rice&quot; + 9-11 testimony - you should get the full archive 
http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&amp;ResultCount=10&amp;BasicQueryText=Rice+testimony</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rice&#8217;s 9-11 Testimony LINK:  C-Span &#8211; Search &#8220;Rice&#8221; + 9-11 testimony &#8211; you should get the full archive<br />
<a href="http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&#038;ResultCount=10&#038;BasicQueryText=Rice+testimony" rel="nofollow">http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&#038;ResultCount=10&#038;BasicQueryText=Rice+testimony</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1118', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: abgdinstr</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1117</link>
		<dc:creator>abgdinstr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1117</guid>
		<description>There will be no perjury charge. Does anyone else recall the administration would not allow Condi, et al, to be sworn in before the Commission?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There will be no perjury charge. Does anyone else recall the administration would not allow Condi, et al, to be sworn in before the Commission?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1117', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Ron</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1115</link>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1115</guid>
		<description>Why are these people allowed to lie, misdirect, and misuse the legal system?  First they loot corporations by merger, now they are looting the US Treasury.  They start wars without any form of legitimate cause or pretext. When will the they be tried for treason and unlawful use power? These people are insane and must be remove and imprisoned for crimes against humanity !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why are these people allowed to lie, misdirect, and misuse the legal system?  First they loot corporations by merger, now they are looting the US Treasury.  They start wars without any form of legitimate cause or pretext. When will the they be tried for treason and unlawful use power? These people are insane and must be remove and imprisoned for crimes against humanity !<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1115', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Bubba Ram Dos</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1098</link>
		<dc:creator>Bubba Ram Dos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1098</guid>
		<description>CLAIM: Ã¢â‚¬Å“I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon. [No one predicted] that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.Ã¢â‚¬? [Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02]

Really?  Check this out:

http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CLAIM: Ã¢â‚¬Å“I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon. [No one predicted] that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.Ã¢â‚¬? [Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02]</p>
<p>Really?  Check this out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1098', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: John Hayes</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1086</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1086</guid>
		<description>My father was a WWII veteran who served in the South Pacific for the entire duration of the conflict. He was a heavy machine gunner, a hand to hand combat expert, a Japanese Language expert...and an interrogator. He suffered from malnutrition-- pelagra and beri-beri, dehydration, heat stoke, hepatitis, malaria, various fungus infections, typhoid, cholera, intestinal parasites...and succumbed during 1977  to emphysema caused by nearly five years of breathing cordite fumes. Every night, he was tormented by images of Banzai attacks, Imperial Nipponese forces&#039; savagery such as the slain and tortured prisoners he and his unit so frequently found left in the path of their marches to demoralize and anger them...and the memories of demonically fanatic Niponese troops he interrogated, who proudly flaunted the souvenirs of their torture and killing of indigenous persons, British and Dutch civilians, ANZAC and US troops, Chinese civilians, etc..

 By any reasonable definition, WWII was a &quot;Just War.&quot; The consequences of trying to tame and appease the Axis Powers are too clear to us today, and were clear for at least two years before the war began. 

The military and civilian forces under the Axis Leaders executed their orders and carried out their duties as they were indoctirnated to understand them with a fanaticism and disregard for individual Human Rights and any univeralist grasp of morality matched by only the Stalinists and the Khmer Rouge. Yes, there is terror and wanton cruelty in Sudan, and there was too much in Rwanda, and no one can diminish the significance of those horrible atrocities. The Taliban and Al Qaueda terror were horrible, immoral.

But, the persons who were and are responsible were not as fanatic as the enemy my father fought, or their allies. Nor do they have a world conquest ideology and strategy that can work. It is unsustainable, unlike that of the Axis. To suggest otherwise is to argue for the slippery slope.

I do not argue that torture is somehow justified by the extreme and exigent circumstances faced by our forces in the South Seas Islands, Papua New Guinea. Exculpation can only come from on high. But, the consequences of permitting the outrageous fanatics to carry out their heinous plans on civilian and military personnel in places such as Nanking, Lei Papua, Manila, Cabanatuan...weighed against the inexperience, lack of preparation, terror, ill health, and desperation of our forces...argues for forgiveness, and for providing support and training adequate to get vital information using more subtle and humane means within the scope of the Geneva Convention. My father and his comrades certainly did nothing even approaching the relative sketches of military misconduct we have received from Guantanamo, other places, Iraq, and we must wonder what remains in store once sunshine illuminates our government again? The culability for the actions we know about rises to the command level, probably higher, to those who issued orders and documents supporting torture as the best means to obtain vital information, who issue directives pushing our troops beyond their limits in terms of accelrating deadlines in an arbitrayry and capricious fashion, who fail to provide appropriate training and support for our troops, who fail to provide appropriate armor and other personal physical protection while requiring our troops to ride in inherently dangerous vehicles such an flimsy hummers and Bradleys, and the consequences of continuing to disregard the Geneva Conventions may be too high for us to bear when our own troops ALWAYS are tortured and killed as captives of our enemies. 

Too many of the strategic level decisions are being made by persons who have no clue how it feels to be shot, to be stabbed, slashed, burned, starved, sick, too hot, nor how it is to live in constant fear and stress in combat. 

Given this, it should be no shocker that they also lack compassion for the casualties we now secretly bring home to warehouse in slipshod facilities, while waiting some minimal treatment, and actualy CHARGING them for treatment, meals, housing, etc, and cutting their on-going financial and medical benefits.....it is a disgrace, a shame, and a demoralizing factor in our services, one that is growing rapidly. Too much of this is, I now believe, symptomatic of personal evil, of incompetance, or a depraved indifference to the well being of common people on our side and that of the insurgents...and it should outrage the people of this great nation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My father was a WWII veteran who served in the South Pacific for the entire duration of the conflict. He was a heavy machine gunner, a hand to hand combat expert, a Japanese Language expert&#8230;and an interrogator. He suffered from malnutrition&#8211; pelagra and beri-beri, dehydration, heat stoke, hepatitis, malaria, various fungus infections, typhoid, cholera, intestinal parasites&#8230;and succumbed during 1977  to emphysema caused by nearly five years of breathing cordite fumes. Every night, he was tormented by images of Banzai attacks, Imperial Nipponese forces&#8217; savagery such as the slain and tortured prisoners he and his unit so frequently found left in the path of their marches to demoralize and anger them&#8230;and the memories of demonically fanatic Niponese troops he interrogated, who proudly flaunted the souvenirs of their torture and killing of indigenous persons, British and Dutch civilians, ANZAC and US troops, Chinese civilians, etc..</p>
<p> By any reasonable definition, WWII was a &#8220;Just War.&#8221; The consequences of trying to tame and appease the Axis Powers are too clear to us today, and were clear for at least two years before the war began. </p>
<p>The military and civilian forces under the Axis Leaders executed their orders and carried out their duties as they were indoctirnated to understand them with a fanaticism and disregard for individual Human Rights and any univeralist grasp of morality matched by only the Stalinists and the Khmer Rouge. Yes, there is terror and wanton cruelty in Sudan, and there was too much in Rwanda, and no one can diminish the significance of those horrible atrocities. The Taliban and Al Qaueda terror were horrible, immoral.</p>
<p>But, the persons who were and are responsible were not as fanatic as the enemy my father fought, or their allies. Nor do they have a world conquest ideology and strategy that can work. It is unsustainable, unlike that of the Axis. To suggest otherwise is to argue for the slippery slope.</p>
<p>I do not argue that torture is somehow justified by the extreme and exigent circumstances faced by our forces in the South Seas Islands, Papua New Guinea. Exculpation can only come from on high. But, the consequences of permitting the outrageous fanatics to carry out their heinous plans on civilian and military personnel in places such as Nanking, Lei Papua, Manila, Cabanatuan&#8230;weighed against the inexperience, lack of preparation, terror, ill health, and desperation of our forces&#8230;argues for forgiveness, and for providing support and training adequate to get vital information using more subtle and humane means within the scope of the Geneva Convention. My father and his comrades certainly did nothing even approaching the relative sketches of military misconduct we have received from Guantanamo, other places, Iraq, and we must wonder what remains in store once sunshine illuminates our government again? The culability for the actions we know about rises to the command level, probably higher, to those who issued orders and documents supporting torture as the best means to obtain vital information, who issue directives pushing our troops beyond their limits in terms of accelrating deadlines in an arbitrayry and capricious fashion, who fail to provide appropriate training and support for our troops, who fail to provide appropriate armor and other personal physical protection while requiring our troops to ride in inherently dangerous vehicles such an flimsy hummers and Bradleys, and the consequences of continuing to disregard the Geneva Conventions may be too high for us to bear when our own troops ALWAYS are tortured and killed as captives of our enemies. </p>
<p>Too many of the strategic level decisions are being made by persons who have no clue how it feels to be shot, to be stabbed, slashed, burned, starved, sick, too hot, nor how it is to live in constant fear and stress in combat. </p>
<p>Given this, it should be no shocker that they also lack compassion for the casualties we now secretly bring home to warehouse in slipshod facilities, while waiting some minimal treatment, and actualy CHARGING them for treatment, meals, housing, etc, and cutting their on-going financial and medical benefits&#8230;..it is a disgrace, a shame, and a demoralizing factor in our services, one that is growing rapidly. Too much of this is, I now believe, symptomatic of personal evil, of incompetance, or a depraved indifference to the well being of common people on our side and that of the insurgents&#8230;and it should outrage the people of this great nation.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1086', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Paul</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1085</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1085</guid>
		<description>I have it from an excellent source that Rice initialed the Clarke memo as RECEIVED  &amp; READ. I am trying to find out if the same was true of the FAA memos.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have it from an excellent source that Rice initialed the Clarke memo as RECEIVED  &#038; READ. I am trying to find out if the same was true of the FAA memos.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1085', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: CitizenX</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1084</link>
		<dc:creator>CitizenX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1084</guid>
		<description>PNAC + 9/11 + ignored warnings + Iraq + lies and coverups= a grand conspiracy to break international law to gain political and military advantage.  Any reasonably intelligent person, looking at the evidence out there can only come to the conclusion that the this is a criminal organization.

By any test of logic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PNAC + 9/11 + ignored warnings + Iraq + lies and coverups= a grand conspiracy to break international law to gain political and military advantage.  Any reasonably intelligent person, looking at the evidence out there can only come to the conclusion that the this is a criminal organization.</p>
<p>By any test of logic.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1084', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: milton wiltmellow</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1074</link>
		<dc:creator>milton wiltmellow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1074</guid>
		<description>Their information management has to be considered.

Had hese two revelations (52 warnings and Clarke&#039;s memo), popped up three weeks ago, would the Senate confirmations of Rice and Gonzales gone so smoothly?

My view is that the Congress plays &#039;good cop&#039; to the executive&#039;s &#039;bad cop.&#039;

Will they convene hearings over Rice&#039;s clear perjuries?

Why not?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Their information management has to be considered.</p>
<p>Had hese two revelations (52 warnings and Clarke&#8217;s memo), popped up three weeks ago, would the Senate confirmations of Rice and Gonzales gone so smoothly?</p>
<p>My view is that the Congress plays &#8216;good cop&#8217; to the executive&#8217;s &#8216;bad cop.&#8217;</p>
<p>Will they convene hearings over Rice&#8217;s clear perjuries?</p>
<p>Why not?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1074', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Gregg</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1073</link>
		<dc:creator>Gregg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1073</guid>
		<description>Sure she lied, that&#039;s status quo for this administration.  The question is:  What will be done about it?  The answer: Nothing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure she lied, that&#8217;s status quo for this administration.  The question is:  What will be done about it?  The answer: Nothing.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1073', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: dave wilson</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1064</link>
		<dc:creator>dave wilson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1064</guid>
		<description>It would be great if someone could share links to Condi&#039;s actual audio recordings.  People don&#039;t remember that when she was telling the &quot;nobody could have predicted...&quot; biggest bald faced lies of her career (at the time), her voice was obviously trembling.  She never imagined (at the time) that she could possibly get away with such whoppers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would be great if someone could share links to Condi&#8217;s actual audio recordings.  People don&#8217;t remember that when she was telling the &#8220;nobody could have predicted&#8230;&#8221; biggest bald faced lies of her career (at the time), her voice was obviously trembling.  She never imagined (at the time) that she could possibly get away with such whoppers.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1064', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Reg</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1054</link>
		<dc:creator>Reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1054</guid>
		<description>GW Bush is the world&#039;s leading terrorist by our own FBI standard,  Here&#039;s the proof:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/george_w__bush_-_world_s_leadi.html
&quot;&gt;Terrorist Bush!&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GW Bush is the world&#8217;s leading terrorist by our own FBI standard,  Here&#8217;s the proof:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/george_w__bush_-_world_s_leadi.html<br />
">Terrorist Bush!</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1054', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: dearkitty</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1012</link>
		<dc:creator>dearkitty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1012</guid>
		<description>See also http://tinyurl.com/6hnzd</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See also <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6hnzd" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/6hnzd</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1012', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Andros</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/02/11/our-new-secretary-of-state/comment-page-1/#comment-1008</link>
		<dc:creator>Andros</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=225#comment-1008</guid>
		<description>Could you tell me when the Democrats in the Senate  questioned Rice specifically on these point? I must have missed somehow.
These facts were known was she was being confirmed.  
I&#039;m sure they&#039;ll issue a statement now that the Clarke memo to Rice (Jan 25, 2001--8 months before the attack) pointing to another lie by Rice that the AlQueda threat wasn&#039;t passed on to the Bush administration from the previous admn.  

I&#039;m not good at holding my breath...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could you tell me when the Democrats in the Senate  questioned Rice specifically on these point? I must have missed somehow.<br />
These facts were known was she was being confirmed.<br />
I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll issue a statement now that the Clarke memo to Rice (Jan 25, 2001&#8211;8 months before the attack) pointing to another lie by Rice that the AlQueda threat wasn&#8217;t passed on to the Bush administration from the previous admn.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not good at holding my breath&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1008', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
