With “Last Throes” Debunked, Rice Unveils “The Latte Defense”
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With “Last Throes” Debunked, Rice Unveils “The Latte Defense”
On the “deadliest day of violence in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion more than two years ago,” Bill O’Reilly sat down with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to examine the real issues in Iraq: It’s all about the lattes.
O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is our correspondents at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad.
Rice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they have wanted to have gone out for a cup of coffee when Saddam Hussein was in power?
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HA HA HA HA HA HAHA…The best writers in Hollywood could never produce comedy of this calibre.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:04 amIt is utterly incredible that this Administration functions at all.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:07 amAnd knowing you could die fetching it just makes the freedom to go get that cup of coffee THAT MUCH SWEETER.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:12 amWas that actually a tough question for the administration from Bill O’Reilly?
September 15th, 2005 at 11:13 amQUICK! Get ahold of Starbucks! They need to send over private contractors to build a coffee shop on every corner in Baghdad! Then the Iraqis (and the correspondents) don’t have to go as far WHEREVER they may be! Just think, Starbucks could make a KILLING! Unless Dunk n’ Donutes beats ‘em there. . .
September 15th, 2005 at 11:14 amWorst. Administration. Ever.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:18 amSeriously, this is the best our SoS can come up with? This is her actual response? This may disturb me more than anything yet. If this is the logic they are now using to justify our presence, God help us all….
September 15th, 2005 at 11:22 amThis will be the model for bad administration. See America, this is what you DON’T do.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:27 amRice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they wanted to have gone out for a cup of coffee when Saddam Hussein was in power?
Ah, yes. The streets were safe and businesses were open.
What this stupid bitch means is she wants Ferragamo shoe shops in Baghdad.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:36 amThe way things are going here, I’m not sure I want to go get a cup of coffee while Dubya is in power in this country.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:41 amMy God, how freaking out of touch can this inpet administration be? Also, could Condi Rice be the next Imelda Marcos??
September 15th, 2005 at 11:47 amPosted elsewhere was this goody - google “Failure” and choose “I’m feeling lucky”. Too funny.
September 15th, 2005 at 11:48 amIt’s nothing a few Blackwater Barristas can’t handle.
Yes, under Saddam, babies were taken out of incubators and thrown in vats of hot coffee, and would the Iraqi people want to drink the coffee then? Huh? Would they? With scalded babies floating in it? Why do liberals want to scald babies? That’s horrible!
September 15th, 2005 at 11:51 am#11 Considering how the president chooses people for positions “inpet” seems very apt. Yes, I realise you typoed inept, but…
#12, “I’m feeling lucky” takes you to the number one hit for that search. Someone has google bombed the Whitehouse biography of the president to the word Failure…
As for the actual article… Words fail me. I don’t give a flying philadelphia fig if Fox correspondents can’t go out for coffee. I wonder if the reason is that they don’t feel safe, or that the coffee shop has shut down now as it doesn’t have any electricity.
Z.
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September 15th, 2005 at 11:53 amWe’ll get those WMDs and stop the mushroom cloud!
Uhhh, we’ll free the Iraqi’s and spread liberty and democracy..?
Ummm, we’ll fight ‘em over there before they get here!
Welll, at least Saddam’s out…
September 15th, 2005 at 11:54 am“I’ll tell you what’s tough bill, breaking in the $1,000 shoes!!!!”
September 15th, 2005 at 11:59 amIf this administration stays in power you can forget having a latte here in the states.
Most Americans worry about a terrorist attack. Have you ever thought about terrorist occupation?
Afterall, Bushie committed a crime by removing Hussein from power. Bushie ordered the detention and torture of thousands of Iraqi’s. Bushie killed thousands of innocent Iraqi’s.
There may be some Hussein supporters who feel that they want justice. An eye for an eye.
Bear arms.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:01 pmIf America continues on such an evil and selfish track, another country will come over here and oust our president and set us free just for the sake of democracy - if they use our standards. I mean, with our WMDs and all.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:08 pmCondi needs to walk her $1000 shoes down to NO and have a have a nice cup of Cajun coffee. I hear it runs in the streets down there. B*tch.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:21 pmThe Secretary of State on Bill O’Reilly? Isn’t this sinking pretty low, even for the Bush administration?
September 15th, 2005 at 12:27 pmWhat Condi was really saying is that only a fool would be stupid enough to set foot in Iraq. She must have been also thinking, ‘haven’t people been watching the news to see how much we’ve screwed that place up?!
PS: after the torturing and imprisoning of thousands and the killing of at least 100,000 innocent Iraqis in just 2 1/2 yrs, the US is on pace to exceed the 300,000 killed by Sadaam’s regime.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:27 pmStephanie and all the other posters here, This is now and has alway been how this bunch minipulates us and the world. Note they silence the whistle blowers, ignore disasters, create distruction in Iraq and our own country and act stupid. They are ofcourse in some way’s stupid, but in other way’s the most evil we have ever seen. They are premoting the hate in the middle east and here by cover up of their dreadful deeds. They know we are watching them but don’t care because they have control of our house, senate and white house. Please join up with impeach groups. That is the only way we can take back our country. Every minute more people are dieing here and in Iraq…Blessings
September 15th, 2005 at 1:34 pmOnce again Condi just doesn’t get it regardless of the fact that she is a highly educated person. He stick to the administration position no matter what has makes her and them look like fools. Any fool with half a brain knows the Iraqi is less safe today than it was under Sadam. No I’m not calling for the return of Sadam, to the contrary. I believe we should have gotten him the first time. She sits there shakes her head no, when she is saying something affirmative. In other words her body is saying “No” while her mouth is saying “Yes”. If you don’t believe what I’m saying watch her answer questions very closely particularly her head when she is saying something that isn’t true.
I feel sorry for poor Condi, it must be tearing her up inside to try to put a positive spin on what is a totally screwed up foreign policy and war strategy in Iraq. It’s not her fault, but she is afraid to stand up and tell the President things are going great in Iraq and our policy needs to change. Actually we need real General in charge rather than political ones. General H. Norman Swartzfaft was a real General, who wasn’t afraid to step on politician toes and tell them the truth.
If I were President I’d take the following actions. Fire Rumsfeld and make Gen Swartzkaft Defense Secretary. Tell Swartzkaft to get rid of Gen Casey and Abezaid immediate along with any other politian Generals. I’d tell Swartzkaft to develop a plan to win the war and bring our soldiers home as soon as possible. I’d invite NATO forces into Iraqi and if they refused in withdraw from NATO. I’d fire anyone who wasn’t telling me the truth about Iraq. I’d go after Al Queada in Pakistan or anywhere else they are.
We need to quit playing around and fight a real war on terror. You can’t win when you are listening to idoits who wouldn’t know the truth if they saw it walking down the street. They need to learn the lessons of Viet Nam, one of which is lying doesn’t win on the battlefield. All the good intentions in the world won’t make us any safer. And lesson number one we aren’t winning in Iraqi and even a blind man can see that. http://WWW.plainnews.blogspot.com
September 15th, 2005 at 1:36 pmWhy did the chimp have to write a note to the shoe princess to say he needed a bathroom break at the U.N.?
September 15th, 2005 at 1:39 pmsee drudge.
Would Condi want to go out for a cup of coffee in Saudi Arabia? Where women are second class by law?
I bet she wouldn’t mind, but it might be hard to drink under that veil…
September 15th, 2005 at 1:46 pmThe no-fault, noncaring administration. The people who put this bunch back in the white house deserve what they get, the others who didn’t vote for monkeyman can at least say I told you so, although little comfort when we’re all broke and dying of natural disasters or terroist attacks.
September 15th, 2005 at 2:04 pmBill always says that “we are the toughest people in the business” so, yeah, he would consider that a “hard hitting” question.
September 15th, 2005 at 2:20 pmThere’s a reason saudi arabian princes own almost 10% of news corp/fox news - they protect the oil, the right wing and dictators who’ll ‘play ball’… Classic fascists - I wonder how many reichwingers know that the saudis are so tied to their beloved mouthpiece of lying propaganda…
September 15th, 2005 at 2:24 pmI see. 2000 Americans and countless Iraqis died so that Fox News correspondents could not go out for the same cup of coffee they would not go out for under the iron fist of a brutal dictator.
Got it.
September 15th, 2005 at 2:51 pmThis remark once again shows Condi Rice for one of two things: a liar or an incompetent. She is either ignorant of preinvasion Iraq or is deliberately lying and revising history. We’ve seen it time and time again: planes flying into buildings - who would’ve thought? Who put the yellowcake in the SOTU speech? August 6th, 2001 PDB a ‘historical’ document. I’m going with liar, anyone else?
September 15th, 2005 at 2:57 pmWhen the going gets tough, it’s time for vacation.
September 15th, 2005 at 3:35 pmTerry,
She’s a liar. David Brooks admitted that the OFFICIAL policy of the administration is to lie to the press on anything that could affect the PR of the administration.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509120003
There’s a video that accompanies the story showing the interview. Basically they intentionally lie to keep the american people from knowing the truth. And the reichwingers claim that the liberals feel they are elite? So the question is do they believe americans are too ’stupid’ to handle the truth, or to ’smart’ in our ability to know what to do if we’re confronted with it? I believe the second. I think they’re afraid that if americans overall knew the truth, they’d throw the bums out…
September 15th, 2005 at 3:40 pmSince Condi’s family doesn’t have a large financial stake, direct or indirect, in a company receiving huge Federal subsidies, she’s only a liar. If she did (as do the Bushes and the Cheneys, for example) than she’d be a crook and a liar.
September 15th, 2005 at 3:56 pmWhy do the insurgents hate our coffee?
September 15th, 2005 at 3:57 pmI think they’re setting the stage for an overthrow of Chavez. Can’t have a madman like him so dangerously positioned next to the world’s coffee supply!
September 15th, 2005 at 3:59 pmThis is hilarious.
Over a hundred people just killed, but Fox News personnel can’t get their lattes. How awesome is that?
Fox Employee to mourning Iraqi: You just had your wife and two children blown to pieces? Shoot - that’s tough. I understand. I can’t even get a latte.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:01 pmYes, yes. Over 1900? US servicemen and servicewomen have died, so that now, we can get killed to go get a cup of coffee? But how much sweeter is that coffee now that Sadaam is not in power?
Unbelievable.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:03 pmSo, KindaNasty Rice, does that mean that no network news talking heads and thier entourages ever drank coffee from businesses that operated under Saddam Hussein’s regime?
When the 1600 Crew starts dragging out cups of coffee as their defence for foreign policy, it’s time to start talking impeachment for real. Damn.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:06 pm“Tell her that now that democracy has come, everybody has a right to drink coffee. Tell her that I personally guarantee her right to drink coffee.”
paraphrasing stupid civilian contractor on “Over There” from last night
September 15th, 2005 at 4:09 pmEither lying or incompetent. Is there anyone in this administration in a position of power that can’t be described as being that way?
Condi, baby, most people that lie to me do so in such a way that I don’t know that they are lying to me. They way you are doing it is just an insult to my intelligence.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:11 pmSorry, but KindaSleazy is SOS because she gives great head.
She DIDN’T get her job because of any competence or skills.
Chripes, at least Bill didn’t make Monica secetary of state.
And O’Reilly is as big as asshole as Rice is!
September 15th, 2005 at 4:15 pmWhen Bush next addresses a joint session of Congress, will the Red side of the aisle have white Capuccino foam on their index fingers to celebrate the great victory that extended to Iraqis the freedom to choose soy or skim?
September 15th, 2005 at 4:15 pm“We’ll get those WMDs and stop the mushroom cloud!
Uhhh, we’ll free the Iraqi’s and spread liberty and democracy..?
Ummm, we’ll fight ‘em over there before they get here!”
Err.. We’ll make Iraq safe for cofee-drinkers?
And now… It doesn’t matter that we can’t make Iraq safe for coffee drinkers because they wouldn’t want to go out for coffee anyway?
I so much miss Madeline Albright! Sigh.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:16 pmRice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they have wanted to have gone out for a cup of Kool-Aid when Saddam Hussein was in power?
September 15th, 2005 at 4:17 pmWell of course they can’t go out for a cup of coffee. The last time I checked, you need running water to make coffee, and that they don’t have in Baghdad…
September 15th, 2005 at 4:18 pmI personally would have wanted to have a cup of coffee in Baghdad when Saddam was in power. At least the city had electricity back then, so the coffee would have been hot!
September 15th, 2005 at 4:23 pmI think it depends on whether you’re talking about going out for a cup of coffee while we were propping Hussein up and selling him WMD as one of our chosen lunatics or going out for a cup of coffee after we decided we wanted his ass out of our way.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:24 pm“Going out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad is HARD WORK. And people gotta know that.” George Bush, State of the Union 2006 address.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:31 pmPeople need to drink lattes over there so that we don’t have to drink them over here.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:35 pmWell Condi, maybe they wouldn’t have WANTED to go out for coffee under Saddam, but I bet they COULD have gone out for coffee without getting BLOWN UP.
It’s amazing that the world continues to spin on its axis with these clowns in charge.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:46 pmThe Secretary of State on Bill O’Reilly? Isn’t this sinking pretty low, even for the Bush administration?
No, it sounds about right. Cheney appeared on Limbaugh’s show to smear Richard CLarke.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:49 pmWould you like cream and sugar, or just Blackwater?
September 15th, 2005 at 4:50 pmYou gotta understand, in their minds they’re heroes. Cheney probably thinks Limbaugh is the epitome of responsible journalism.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:51 pm“We have one hundred percent more coffee choice. When you see OTHER countries with the wide range of coffee products available here, and addressing the issues of scalding, THEN you can lecture me about getting a safe cup of coffee.”
September 15th, 2005 at 4:52 pmLies a lot? Yes. Incompetent? Depends on what agenda she’s working. And given that it’s the corporatist fascist state agenda, then no, not incompetent, just working a different portfolio then the one in her job description.
More people need to recognize that these, these, things are not working for the people or government or Constitution, they’re working for Big Money.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:53 pmRYAN -
Here’s a little more about the Administration deliberately lying to the press:
A WHITE HOUSE AIDE who had told me one thing on the record a few weeks ago tried to persuade me over the weekend, not for attribution, that the opposite was true. I protested. His reply: “Why would I lie? Because that’s what I’m supposed to do. Lying to the press doesn’t prick anyone’s conscience.”
Capital: The Downsides of Loyalty and Discipline
September 15th, 2005 at 4:57 pmBy David Wessel. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Dec 12, 2002. pg. A.2
Well, they could probably buy a cup of coffee safely from the Halliburton/KBR company that is supplying our troops…..
But it would cost $742. And that’s without cream and sugar.
September 15th, 2005 at 5:05 pm***Spit Take***
Fortunately, it wasn’t hot coffee, but just some regular water that I spit out in a huge spray upon reading that.
Now I have to go clean my computer screen.
a modest experiment
September 15th, 2005 at 5:14 pmI listened to this a few times and produced a more accurate transcript:
BIll O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is that our correspondents here at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad.
Condoleeza Rice: No, but the people -
BIll O’Reilly (interrupting, what else is new): That’s a tough, that’s tough
Condoleeza Rice: No, it’s, it’s tough. But - would they have wanted to go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad when Saddam Hussein was in power? I don’t think so.
September 15th, 2005 at 5:20 pmIf that’s for real, it is amazing that either of them have found employment. I think I am going to be sick.
September 15th, 2005 at 5:23 pmHow Do The Kurds Feel About a Turkish Coffee?
No coffee for you!
September 15th, 2005 at 5:41 pmIMPEACH THE SHURB
September 15th, 2005 at 5:46 pmU-N-C-L-E T-O-M N-I-G-G-E-R.
September 15th, 2005 at 5:47 pm(That goes for Condi, too)
All I could think of was how the bush administration could fit right in w/ the characters of “Planet of the Apes”.It’s like american citizens can’t think,can’t speak,and they are just an evolution behind the “apes” and “chimps”.
September 15th, 2005 at 6:01 pmThe entire bush crony clan need to be impeached and sent to israel,perferably in conex containers w/o food and water for a week.And send PNAC and AIPAC with them.They all are a bunch of f***ing traitors to America.
#31, Terry, don’t forget that this is the same idiot who, on 9/11, said (supposedly to Karen Hughes) that “our oceans no longer protect us.” So Condi, how long ago were ICBMs developed?
September 15th, 2005 at 6:28 pmCan’t go out for coffee?? Hey, hold on a minute — I thought that the insurgency was on its “last legs”? What gives?
September 15th, 2005 at 6:28 pmOMG!, these barbarions had no hazelnut shots for my java mocha. Beside, my friggin feet were killing me, I guess you need to spend $2,000 now a days to get decent shoes. My world is just caving in, next my beemer will be in the shop.
September 15th, 2005 at 6:33 pmso typical. no tears for iraqis and the conditions they’re forced to endure. conditions worse now than before we invaded. oh no, it’s all about the comfort of americans. that’s all that really matters with these vultures.
September 15th, 2005 at 6:40 pm#13, I am reading your post for the second time and I am laughing as hard as the first time.
September 15th, 2005 at 6:41 pmYour wit today is really appreciated.
Finally, the real reason we are in Iraq comes out: to make Baghdad safe for Fox News’ reporters to get a cup of coffee.
September 15th, 2005 at 6:53 pmI thought that all we should ever say to her is “Nice shoes.â€
No, we definitly SHOULD NOT.
Ewww.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:18 pmYeesh.
One lump or two?
I’ll take a WHOLE LOTTA LUMPS!
September 15th, 2005 at 7:22 pm-
I am not being naive or stupid I really want to know the answer to my question. Why don’t they impeach the President? I came to this country in the late 50’s when everyone looked at America with respect. I don’t see that today.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:32 pmHoly crap! I’m a veteran of Gulf War Episode I and even I would feel safer visiting Baghdad under Saddam and going out to get a cup of coffee then than now. People weren’t blowing themselves up all over bejezus under Saddam. People weren’t launching RPGs or assassinating people left and right under Saddam. Hell’s Bells, Saddam probably would have gone out of his way to make sure I was comfy and got the best coffee in town. She is a goddamn nutcase.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:50 pmI’m going to have to stop here because I am getting more and more pissed with every second I sit here and think about this crap.
Condimelda! Mrs. Marcos also likes latte. And shoes.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:52 pmIt shames me to have to say that it is probably easier today to go out for coffee in Baghdad than in New Orleans.
As long as we’re comparing cities that feature heavily armed Blackwater mercenaries.
That “would they have wanted to before” tactic doesn’t work so well for NOLA, unless you really hate chicory.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:58 pm[…] Think Progress can stomach watching “The O’Reilly Factor” and saw this ridiculous exchange between Bill and Condi ‘Imelda’ Rice: O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is our correspondents at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad. […]
September 15th, 2005 at 8:06 pmTHE TRUTH IS OUT! Al Qaeda hates coffee! They also hate freedom. That’s why they’ve repeatedly attacked Sweden.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:09 pmYep, yep, and yep. Do NOT proceed without watching the DVD Loose Change (www.tomflocco.com). It’s not in the media, so you know it’s important. Critical info & views supported by many loyal former insiders. Morgan Reynolds, chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush’s first term says:
“There are all kinds of problems with the conventional story. And the Pentagon hole—everybody that’s looked into it knows that the 757 Boeing didn’t crash into the Pentagon,”
“You show me another aircraft crash vaporization in history,” Reynolds says. “It’s never happened. It will never happen.”
“I defy anybody to fly a 767 at sea level at 550 mph. Sea level? Bull shit. Pardon my French,” he says. “And then Mohammed Ata at the stick—he’s going to hit a tower 200 feet wide. Wow!”
Read the rest at http://www.boulderweekly.com/ archive/ 090805/ coverstory.html
September 15th, 2005 at 8:15 pmIt ain’t America without the Bill of Rights.
It’s fair to say that we would be better off without a government, period, than we are with these cretins having hijacked our government and used it to destroy our economy, our army, our national guard units, New Orleans, our environment, our national sense of legacy and our national ability to do good by demonstrating world leadership. I devote time every day to instructing my children to be wary of and avoid the government as a hegemonic device of evil idiots.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:26 pmLittle did we know the lengths a “dry drunk” would go for a decent cup of coffee.
Let this be a lesson to us all. The faked WMD’s, all the followup excuses…it all came down to coffee, and one man’s desperate search for a decent cuppa Joe.
Surely most of us can relate to that. Dragging yourself to work after a vicious all-night bender, you collapse in your chair and think, “I’d do anything in the world right now for a really good cup of coffee.”
No need to ask how far that means. Now we know.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:39 pmWhat a bunch of wussies at Fox News. There are only three things to worry about when you go out walking in Baghdad:
- getting shot
- getting blown up
- getting your head chopped off
Other than that, your chances of finding a good cup of coffee are just as good as any citizen’s.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:45 pmMy god. They’re using weapons of mocha destruction against Fox news!
September 15th, 2005 at 9:00 pmComment by Ryan Neat - “Reichwingers”
That’s a good one. I’ll have to start using it for now on.
September 15th, 2005 at 9:09 pmOur brainles genius.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:16 pmHa ha ha. It’s good to know we’re making the world safe for decaf latte.
“Let them drink coffee!”
September 15th, 2005 at 10:20 pmRice’s vacuous comment is incontrovertible proof that the best higher education money can buy will not protect anyone from the clutches of imbecility. After all, just look what it did for her boss.
My outrage and revulsion toward this morally bankrupt administration and that blithering idiot in the White House deepens with each passing moment. Not even Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on their worst days turned my stomach this much. The irreparable harm that this man and his self-absorbed Republican cabinet and congressional sycophants have wrought on people at home and abroad, to say nothing of how thoroughly he has trashed this nation’s standing in the world community, are the shame and disgrace of humanity.
And to think those bastards were going to impeach Bill Clinton over a blow job! Have we gone completely mad?Un-frigging-believable!
September 15th, 2005 at 11:09 pmThat woman is a jerk and Karl Rove is a one trick pony. Fact is, conditions were safe enough to go out for a cup of coffee when Saddam was in power.
September 16th, 2005 at 12:04 amThe United States of Oil
The US not only backed Saddam during the Reagan years (and before), but helped put him in power. The US backed the Baathists since the late 1950s, trying to overturn through assasination, the government which had nationalized it’s oil fields like Iran had done. The US “successfully” put in the Shaw of Iran, a super tyrant that made Saddam look tame, to reign over Iran, opening up oil fields for US oil companies. The US successfully overthrew the leadership of Iraq, opening up their oil fields for US oil companies somewhat later.
From the late ’70s through 1991, Iraq was the most advanced country in the middle east. It was very “western” in culture and look. Unfortunately, Saddam was the ideal thug to keep the country the way the western world, the US in particular, wanted it. Rumsfeld, as well as other government officials were more than happy to go there to sell standard weapons and the products to create chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The US in actually sold the proximity fuses to detonate nuclear bombs. Then the war broke out over a lie by the US stating that the Iraqi army was mounting a threat to take over the Saudi Oil fields, AFTER Bush I had already gave Iraq the green light to take Kuwait for consistantly cross drilling oil out of Iraq’s reserves. The fact was that the Iraqi troops were not on the Saudi border and the number of troops were vastly overstated.
September 16th, 2005 at 12:07 amFor more information regarding the history of the United States and the west’s militarization of Iraq, go to http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Iran_Iraq-War
September 16th, 2005 at 12:19 am[…] FOX News: The O’Reilly Factor - Interview - Transcript: Rice Talks to O’Reilly Discovered at Think Progress: With “Last Throes†Debunked, Rice Unveils “The Latte Defense†[…]
September 16th, 2005 at 1:47 amIf ConTheFleasOff Mice ‘accidently’ spilled a cup of too-hot-to-handle Fire and Brimstone brew in her lap or on those fancy kicks,
could she sue McHalliburtons for some mad amounts of Hallibacon$$?
September 16th, 2005 at 2:05 amGimme a break!
September 16th, 2005 at 5:25 amHow did the USA get stuck with these idiots?
HER ANSWER SHOULD HAVE BEEN “would you have wanted to pay $1.30 a gallon while Saddam was still in power?” Answer , HELL YES!!!
September 16th, 2005 at 6:28 amCan you go out for a cup of coffee in New Orleans…
No?
Aw, the loot-a-boos might get ya..??
Steel ya shoes..??
Water too high for ya…??
Too many bodies all covered in s**t, oil and chemicals…??
Ah, who would have thunk that levee would break and the city (my city) would be abandoned…?? Who would have thunk it…???
Condi… you suck!
September 16th, 2005 at 7:19 amHow did the USA get stuck with these idiots?
Read if want to know ,but be warned theres no going back…
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September 16th, 2005 at 7:37 amGee, Bill never has a second cup of cafe at home…
I feel the Faux “reporters” pain. Not only did my coffee taste better while Saddam was in Baghdad and Bill Clinton was in Washington, but I could get a gallon of gas for the price of Jack-in-the-Box coffee rather than the cost of a Starbucks triple latte expresso mocha neutrino!
September 16th, 2005 at 8:31 amThis woman like the rest of the administration will sell them selves and say anything!
September 16th, 2005 at 8:52 amIt is sad to see such an empty person!!
Was this the most hard-hitting question Billy-O could come up with? There is a war going on, and talking heads are pontificating on the fascinating topic of java.
September 16th, 2005 at 9:15 amIt is hard to sort out the clueless from the venal in this gang, they should all hang together. Someone here said something about Impeachment? Not a chance. With all three branches of government sewn up and the media owned by co-conspiritors, none of them will be held accountable for even the most blatant treason. We have another alternative, however. September 24, 25 and 26 be in Washington DC along with Cindy Sheehan, Veterans for Peace and Katrina survivors to demand accountability. Somewhere between 500 000 and one million people are projected to show up. We will not be blown off. It is time for a demonstration of People Power, a non-violent (at least from our side) occupation of the Whitehouse and Congress by overwhelming numbers of citizens to remove the illigitimate thugs from power. They can go quietly like Marcos or they can take the hard way like Ceausescu, but the Cheney gang must GO!
September 16th, 2005 at 9:36 amDon’t miss this opportunity to be part of a major historical event, it would be worse than missing Woodstock.
MY BRAIN!!! SHE BLEEDS!!!!!
September 16th, 2005 at 10:29 amCondoleeeeeeza’s language is bookspeak and without her book in front of her all she was able to do was rightwing her answer. Poor girl.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:16 amCondi has morphed into a dumbed-down ass kisser like all the other robits on Bush’s cabinet… look at those televised meetings. 15 clownish clones sitting to the left and right, smiling, not speaking, thinking about coffee and bathroom breaks themselves, and their home equiry and stock portfolio’s. Condi is just an examle of Regression to the mean, under the pathetic Bush Administration.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:34 amThis is a dangerous administration. Remember the “They hate our freedoms” speech? Take a good look at who is really taking our freedoms away and the distruction being done in the world today. It isn’t coming from someone else in another country, it’s coming from this administration!
September 16th, 2005 at 11:50 amMaybe Secretary Rice should ask Donald Rumsfeld about going out for a cup of coffee while Saddam ran Iraq. He would know since he had been there as a guest. I don’t recall car bombings in Baghdad during Saddam’s reign, nor beheadings of foreign workers. If Sec. Rice is suggesting on national television that things in Iraq are no worse than during Saddam then I believe the citizens of that country should get equal time.
September 16th, 2005 at 12:03 pmWait, I’m just getting caught up. Did she say you wouldn’t want to have gone out and get a cup of coffee before Katrina? Outrageous!
September 16th, 2005 at 12:21 pmBush promised,
“The success of the Bush-Cheney administration will depend on the quality appointees we choose to join us to lead this nation in the years ahead. I will look for people who are willing to work hard to do what is best for America, who examine the facts and do what is right whether or not it is popular. I will look for people from across the country and from every walk of life. I welcome all who are ready for this great challenge to apply.”
Bush delivered, Condi, Roberts, Browne, Chertoff….Shome mishtake shurely…
As usual, no truth there then….
September 16th, 2005 at 12:37 pmOh give poor old Condi a break. I don’t think she was
expecting a sarcastic comment from Fox News.
Fox News being sarcastic to Condi! What’s next journalism?!?
BTW
I think you could go out for coffee under Sadam. But the fancy stuff (latte etc…) was iffy…..
September 16th, 2005 at 12:42 pmPeople have been saying that in the next elections, against Hillary Clinton, the Republicans will run Condoleeza Rice. She does have the most important qualification for a proper lobbyists sockpuppet - a severe lack of skill in coping with reality.
Personally, I believe all current administration figures are on a personal medication diet that impairs their judgement. Seriously, have you ever heard of any of them ill, or in psychological trouble from the extreme stress, or is any of them even overweight? Someone run an amphetamines test on those freaks.
September 16th, 2005 at 12:43 pmAmazing. She can’t even give a good answer to a ‘tough’ question from Bill O’Really. Maybe they don’t give them a copy of the questions ahead of time after all.
And btw Condimelda, yes I would rather go for a cup of coffee under Saddam than under the current Iraq regime, just not with you.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:03 pmnext to this ignorant pygmy condolousy rice, the spaghetti-spined colonscopy powell was a giant.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:21 pmWhat now, America? We stand alone. A once revered nation is now the feared pariah in the eyes of many. Can we not observe and see what has happened? In record time, we have squandered the goodwill of the world that was evident after the attacks of September 2001. Instead of solving the problem of terrorism in a smart way, we have in fact inflamed the passions of millions. Our leadership have used our fears and anxieties against us in various ways to stifle opposing and valid views. We have been shoveled a slew of lies to justify the abominations perpetrated in our name. Our press has dishonored its position in our “free society,” in feeding us the propaganda emanating from the masters of spin. Almost without exception, the main stream media have been supplying our people with unfiltered, non-critical, spoutings from the cabal running our country. Our friends have been marginalized or otherwise treated with childish and imbecilic disdain. Millions of lives have been disrupted in the pursuit of an unjust and illegal war against a people whose crime is that there land sits atop of our most prized commodity. Our treasures are being reallocated into the hand of the mighty few for continued and lasting support, and synergy with the junta we have acquired. The billions misappropriated for the conflict in Iraq is mortgaging our future. I fear for the next generation who will be at a disadvantage as the rest of the world turns against us in their disgust. For all those who voted for this crooked regime, I have one thing to say: You share the same outlook as Osama Bin Laden; you have helped to accelerate the decline of this great nation.
September 16th, 2005 at 1:23 pmIt’s not scary that Condi argues lattes, it’s expected. What is scary is that the media does argue lattes. Our kids are dying. How utterly inconvenient that O’Reilly’s boys can’t go outside for lattes.
Dan Rather would be turning over in his grave. Err, oh, wait, he’s not dead. But if he were…!
September 16th, 2005 at 1:56 pmOverheard: Bill O’Reilly: “And another thing, Condi! It’s getting damned expensive to drive my HumVee to Starbucks!”
September 16th, 2005 at 1:59 pm#116: No you do not stand alone. Most arabs hate you, but pretty much everybody else is just somewhere between “sorta sad they’re ruining themselves” and “when will those people learn how to get rid of a government?”
September 16th, 2005 at 2:52 pmworst administration EVER - no wonder some countries consider the U.S. a “terrorist nation”…..it’s time to wake up people and take back this country from the maniacs
September 16th, 2005 at 3:17 pmWhy does anyone even care anymore what Condiliar Rice says? She has been so thoroughly discredited. Please stop even paying attention to Spindoctor Rice.
September 16th, 2005 at 4:00 pmOh Condi, I couldn’t havbe begged you for a better set-up. She must have been rattled by the Muse’s expose!
Pottygate Overflows: Rice Note “#1 or #2?â€
EWM - (September 16, 2005) A White House still in damage control from the publication of a photo of the President penning a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking for a bathroom break is bracing for a second blow in the widening scandal.
Eyewitness Muse has obtained the note and our exclusive examination reveals that Rice’s response, written below the President’s words, was curt and some say disrespectful.
“No. 1 or No. 2?!?!†was all that Rice had written, but the thick, dark letters and indentations caused by her pen revealed much more.
After analyzing the note with no knowledge of its authors, famed forensic handwriting pathologist Dr. Bartleby Blathermaster said “This is a woman with serious control issues and this is a man who simply doesn’t have a clue. This is a very bad combination–what sort of business did you say they were in?â€
The White House spin machine is in high gear trying to head off the story before it dominates the next news cycle. However, Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s campy attempt to poke fun at the story may backfire.
“Look, this is all about a President who doesn’t act all ‘look at me I’m the Prez, I can take a whiz anyplace, anytime.’ This is a President who knows whether to shit or wind his watch. In this case, he turned to his most trusted advisor for advice. What’s the big whoop?…â€
Full article: http://www.eyewitnessmuse.com/musings.php?p=151
September 16th, 2005 at 6:36 pmIts tragic that she can play Chopin but exudes very little warmth. Plus she’s a lying fucking bitch to the max.
September 16th, 2005 at 6:48 pmDOH!!!
It seems I read an article (I believe the author was Robert Fisk) that before the war, not one American citizen was killed or injured anywhere in the country of Iraq since the previous Gulf war ended. (Not that she probably reads anymore than her boss does) You can usually get all the Oil company stock quotes from one page of the paper.
September 16th, 2005 at 6:56 pmMy roommate is from Jordan. He and his friends said before the war, the borders were open and there was peace all around. The Iraqis drove to the surrounding countries to visit and shop and DROVE BACK! If they were so horribly oppressed, why would they drive back? How could they get out in the first place? I sorta figured there was the high wall around Iraq holding the people in. WRONG. They were free to come and go as they pleased. NOW, there are borders, tanks and checkpoints. And the economy in the entire region is suffering, there’s crime and terrorism where there had been none before. He said they had instability in the Middle East during Bush I and during Bush II but it was peaceful and prosperous during Clinton. Makes one think, eh?
September 16th, 2005 at 7:57 pmSo what’s the difference? Bush’s Baghdad, or Saddam’s……..no coffee? Does that mean Iraq is the same now as it was then? Duh!
September 16th, 2005 at 9:38 pmIsn’t her response the basic answer for everyone at the Bush Administration??
Response: Wasn’t _______ worse under Sadddam?
They need a new schtick!
September 16th, 2005 at 9:59 pmHey Condi and Bill O’Reilly,
September 16th, 2005 at 11:27 pmYou two outta touch #$%@#$%’s,… they Drink TEA over there. Wish it Was as EASY TO GET RID of YOU TWO
as it is to write this BLOG.
Holy Shnikeys!!!
September 16th, 2005 at 11:34 pmFox News asking the hard questions?
Coffee unavailable in Bagdad?
Condi and Bill should ask a soldier for a packet of the freezed dried stuff that comes in MREs. It’ll be easier to swallow than the s@!t they’re feeding us.
Parrying is not gravitas. Some recognition of the death and disaster her admininstration has wrought would be appropriate here.
September 17th, 2005 at 9:11 amRight. You couldn’t go out in Bagdad without getting gased by Suddam. Remember folks, hillbillies can’t add 2+2. This is what they count on.
September 17th, 2005 at 12:05 pmHow ANYONE can support this catastrophic failure of an administration is beyond me.
NOTE TO ALL HISTORIANS: PLEASE give full credit to this adminsitration as the WORST administration in US history dwarfing the Harding/Coolidge years.
September 17th, 2005 at 12:58 pmEnough of this horse$h1t when is that asteroid comin? I hope it splits in 2 and lands on the white house and crawford, texas. ARGGHGGHGHH!
September 17th, 2005 at 3:34 pmI hear too much of this “Well, at least they’re better off than under Saddam, who kept them in a constant state of fear and killed his own people.” I’ve heard this sort of thing from both Republican types and Democrat types. Those who have been doing unembedded, on-the-ground, real reporting, like Dahr Jamail, revealing the real condition of people’s lives since the US invaded again in ‘03 have left no doubt that the people of Iraq are in far worse shape under the thumb of the US military and its puppets than they were under Hussein.
September 17th, 2005 at 4:41 pmDoes anybody know what happened to that group of right wing pundits, that went to Iraq to get the “real story” since the main stream media could only print the bad news? Were they all killed??
September 17th, 2005 at 6:26 pmI dunno. The larger question is: are you better off now being blown to smithereens by suicide bombers and/or tortured at Abu Ghraib, or better off being hanged after being tortured at Abu Ghraib?
September 17th, 2005 at 10:23 pmCondi is not only a liar, she’s amoral like the other Bushites! There is often no correlation with being highly educated as she is, and being intelligent and principled, which she is not. She is pathetic and worse off than her boss, because he is just the mouth-piece for the real powers behind the throne. She is a policy setter and advisor who knows better but does not have the moral fiber to do better. She has a female cousin in Los Angeles who is just the opposite - a lawyer, highly principled and is as extremely progressive as Condi is extremely regressive and conservative. What a contrast between the two! Her day of judgement will not be pleasant and her punishment will be well deserved.
September 17th, 2005 at 11:47 pmThese people don’t have a clue! This is almost as bad as Laura Bush comparing mothers being separated from their children in the hurricane to losing track of a child for a few minutes in a department store and then educating us all about the importance of teaching our children their names and address at a young age.
September 18th, 2005 at 5:27 am#1 dj:
You think what they say *isn’t* produced by the best writers in Hollywood? Come on, we live in an age where politicians have product placements: http://www.signonsandiego.com/ news/ politics/ 20050528-9999-1n28product.html
and where the government distributes professionally produced one-sided “news segments” (propoganda) to television stations to replace unpleasant fact with the government line: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151871,00.html
We live in a produced reality. People look to fallible, national, corporate news channels for perspective, instead of walking next door and chatting with their neighbors. Of course the political parties, the corporations, and the military-industrial complex are happy to oblige and produce a nice reality for you that keeps you a fat, obediant, and most importantly distracted consumer.
September 18th, 2005 at 9:16 amWe Americans apparently think we are the only ones able to report the news. There are hundreds of good reporters in Iraq who are not in the green zone, BECAUSE THEY ARE IRAQI’s. If our networks want to get the real story, they need to ignore their star system and simply respect and hire their own Iraqi reporters. The BBC does this and has lots of life in Iraq info that never gets to us because our news sources dont get out.
September 18th, 2005 at 5:12 pmTom Hendrickson:
“If our networks want to get the real story, they need to ignore their star system and simply respect and hire their own Iraqi reporters. The BBC does this and has lots of life in Iraq info that never gets to us because our news sources dont get out.”
So cute you think the corporate-run news media in this country wants to report what’s actually going on.
September 18th, 2005 at 5:59 pmIs Condi also a ‘Compassionate Conservative’ like her Boss, ‘ The Wrecker’ ?
September 19th, 2005 at 2:49 amtarbucks and Dunk’n Doughnuts would not be allowed to open shops unless they go through Halliburton.
September 19th, 2005 at 9:52 amCondi is on the cover of AARP. She has a spanking coming from “W”
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September 26th, 2005 at 3:23 pmAnd there is talk that this stupid b#@*% will run for president in 2008. She is sooooo qualified. Almost reaches the level of bush.
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