Bush Appoints Rice To Stabilize Iraq…Again
Bush Appoints Rice To Stabilize Iraq…Again
In October 2003, President Bush gave Condoleezza Rice the authority to manage postwar Iraq. USA Today, 10/6/03:
President Bush is giving his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the authority to manage postwar Iraq and the rebuilding of Afghanistan…
Rice will head the Iraq Stabilization Group, which will have coordinating committees on counterterrorism, economic development, political affairs and media messages.
It didn’t work out so well. Washington Post, 5/18/04:
With all the chaos and uncertainty in Iraq, this would be a good time to call on the White House’s Iraq Stabilization Group. At least it would have been a good time to call on the Stabilization Group if the group itself had not become, er, unstable…
But seven months later, the four original leaders of the Stabilization Group have taken on new roles, and only one remains concerned primarily with Iraq. A search of the White House Web site indicates the phrase “Iraq Stabilization Group” has not been mentioned publicly since October.
…[S]ome within the White House, said the destabilized Stabilization Group is a metaphor for an Iraq policy that is adrift as U.S. ambitions in the country are thwarted by an insurgency and a prisoner-abuse scandal.
Today, it was deja vu all over again:
The White House formally gave Condoleezza Rice authority on Wednesday to take the lead in planning and reconstruction efforts in conflict areas such as Iraq.
Her first task, I assume, will be to clean up the mess the Iraq stabilization group left.
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Great shoes for every Iraqi!
December 14th, 2005 at 5:27 pmHee. Farce.
December 14th, 2005 at 5:27 pmAnd how’s Rove doing in New Orleans, by the way?
December 14th, 2005 at 5:30 pmThe task force to stabilize the stabilization group
December 14th, 2005 at 5:33 pmor:
“task force stabilization squared” (TFSS).
See how you can make stupid things sound
all military and stuff.
But the tricky question is what shoes to wear?
I want to see Condi’s Big Mac moment. I want to see the groveling desperation in her yes-man eyes.
December 14th, 2005 at 5:33 pm#3,
I think he has all the money funneled
December 14th, 2005 at 5:34 pmsafely to cronies by now.
Typical of government work. If someone can’t do the job, give them more time to do it. If someone is incompetent, give them a promotion.
December 14th, 2005 at 5:46 pmHeckofa job for a heckofa gal, Junior would say.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but heckofa little butt on her, too.
December 14th, 2005 at 6:26 pmIf Bush said He was Responsible, Wouldn,t the Constitute an APOLOGY?
December 14th, 2005 at 6:46 pmFrom HIM???????
December 14th, 2005 at 6:47 pmWho am I kidding.
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December 14th, 2005 at 6:53 pmNot only that, but in today’s Scotty McMessage press briefing, there were hints that Rummy may resign after tomorrow’s election in Iraq. That would be interesting. Would that result in his ensuing perp walk for war crimes and violations of torture statutes? Doubt it.
December 14th, 2005 at 6:58 pmI wouldn’t put Condi in charge of walking my dog.
December 14th, 2005 at 7:00 pmDoesn’t that function already belong to the Secretary of State?
December 14th, 2005 at 7:06 pmHeckofa job for a gal like Condi. Heckofa program to be heading up, too, the “Iraq Stabilization Group.” Sounds real official and dramatic. I’m just wondering what the Army and Marines are for, if it ain’t a stabilizing group. Is she going to start doing Rummy’s job now?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but do you suppose anyone has gotten into her pants these past five years? Really taken her out and given her a good hammering? I mean, how can the White House keep her sexlife so secret and yet at the same time blow the cover of a CIA agent?
December 14th, 2005 at 7:13 pmThis is too funny. And right on the heels of BoyGeorge’s admission that the Iraq invasion was based on “faulty intelligence” that, of course, was created by the administration itself.
December 14th, 2005 at 7:31 pmhttp://www.afterellen.com/Print/Photos/boondocks/boondocks.jpg
December 14th, 2005 at 8:14 pmHere are two reasons why Condi Rice will do a lousy mop up job in Iraq.
Condi’s Comfort
December 9, 2005
The Bush administration’s addiction to torture on this holiday season may end and the “cold turkey†shakes begins. In “British court rejects evidence obtained through torture†by the Press Democrat News Services spelled that Britain’s highest court have ruled that evidences obtained through torture in other countries cannot be used in the British courts. British Law Lords question the detention of a group of foreigners whose rights to hear the evidences against them were never told. The Law Lords found this unacceptable; especially those abuses involved which are popular in Guantanamo Bay. As expected, Amnesty International declared the decision as victory for human rights. Meanwhile, in Belgium, Condoleezza Rice objected, stating that the U.S. can’t guarantee that detainees won’t be abused. Aside from offering assurances that violators of the detainees will be punished Rice’s plead is as empty as President Bush’s denial that he had no knowledge that extraordinary retention involved torture. Bad as Bush’s denials are what are worse are Rice’s reassurances that everything is going to be A-o-okay. At this moment that okay offers little comfort for someone who is being torture in some spider hole in Russia, courtesy of the U.S. of A.
Condi’s fairy Dust
December 12, 2005
Why torture is still a headliner? Because the Bush administration still haven’t come to terms with it. This time I’m going to editorialize two articles at the same time: “13 cases of torture found at Iraq prison†by Ellen Knickmeyer, and “Furor over torture charges may cloud U.S. image†by Tom Raum. In Knickmayer’s, 13 prisoners were discovered in a Baghdad detention center. The prisoners were in a sorry condition, requiring mediate medical care. Predictably, of the 625 prisoners found to date, 56 automatically were freed. Is there any question that the U. S. is aware that the Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution is behind these secret tortures? As for Raum’s article, we and Europe have finally seen who’s behind the curtain, torturing suspects in the dark. Both Condi Rice, while at Europe and that buffoon, Michael Mandelbaum, of Johns Hopkins, tried desperately to sprinkle fairy dust on the public’s eyes, treating us like idiots and hoping we won’t catch wise to secret torture detentions that the U.S. are behind in Eastern Europe. So why is all this is happening? Because the Bush administration have thumbed its nose at the Geneva Convention and International Law. Condi, shut up and come home.
December 14th, 2005 at 9:33 pmIf at first, you don’t succeed…
December 15th, 2005 at 2:31 amWhere’s Karen Hughes when ya need her.
Bush Appoints Rice To Stabilize IraqÂ…Again
In October 2003, President Bush gave Condoleezza Rice the authority to manage postwar Iraq. It didnÂ’t work out so well. Today, it was deja vu all over again. Her first task, I assume, will be to clean up the mess the Iraq stabilization group left.
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December 15th, 2005 at 6:54 amAt least Condi will have extra time for shoe shopping now
December 15th, 2005 at 7:10 am“Her first task, I assume, will be to clean up the mess the Iraq stabilization group left.”
Yeah, it’s a real quagmire all right. Did anyone notice the election? Thought not. Neither did the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/print/?nav=globetop
But at least one journalist has been paying attention:
Think about everything you’ve heard about the conditions in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces, the multi-layered complexities of the war.
Then think again.
I’m a journalist. I read the news everyday, from several sources. I have the luxury of reading stuff newspapers don’t always have room to print. I read every tidbit I could on Iraq and the war before coming.
Everything I thought I knew was wrong.
Maybe not wrong, but certainly different than the picture in my head.
I liken it to this; It was real struggle for me to choose to see the Harry Potter movies. I had read the books and loved the pictures I had in my mind of the details I read. I didn’t need to see a movie; I had a movie playing in my head of exactly how I perceived the stories.
I had similar notions about Iraq, Mosul, the war and what exactly soldiers do. And it was handily shattered like glass today by a group of soldiers, half of them younger than myself.
http://newsminer.com/iraq/blog/?p=26
You Left Wing Losers have lost the war. Give up now and maybe we’ll let you keep a pair of your red diapers.
December 15th, 2005 at 9:02 amBush Appoints Rice To Stabilize Iraq.
Ahhh ha ha ha, isn’t there a way he could appoint harriet to that role?
December 15th, 2005 at 9:16 amCondi stabilize Iraq? You’ve got to be kidding me. These guys should be on Comedy Central.
December 15th, 2005 at 9:50 am“Yeah, it’s a real quagmire all right. Did anyone notice the election? Thought not. Neither did the Washington Post.” MizzWrong
What’s your point? Elections put in a democratic leader into Iran and Iraq in the 1950s/1960s, and yet both countries degraded into dictatorships. I hope the Iraqi people the best, and I would LOVE it if they could find freedom, but an occupied country with forced elections is not free. It is occupied and a fragile pool of potential at best.
You sound like a pollyana retard, but you are from texas, so that’s not surprising. You really need to get out more, your world view is idiotic, stunted and unrealistic.
December 15th, 2005 at 11:37 am“You Left Wing Losers have lost the war. Give up now and maybe we’ll let you keep a pair of your red diapers.”
Shouldn’t left wingers have BLUE diapers. You know blue state/red state. I know, take a look in your pants and tell me if your diapers are red or blue. Probably yellow, taking your military record into consideration.
December 15th, 2005 at 12:34 pm[...] [...]
December 15th, 2005 at 1:58 pmShouldn’t left wingers have BLUE diapers. Comment by Spudge_Boy
I guess you never heard of Red Diaper Babies. Look it up, it’s just another fun fact to know and tell. The real live bona fide Neo-cons were raised as Red Diaper Babies. That’s why the fringe loon Nazi Boiz Right and the fringe loon Marxist Left hate them so much.
December 15th, 2005 at 4:33 pmI-RIGHT-I,
If the Red Diaper Babies (and I did look it up) were/are NeoCons, then why the hell would we want a pair? It doesn’t make since.
I hate the NeoCons and I don’t say that lightly.
Do you think that there will ever be a time in my life that I will like NeoCons even one iota? Not likely. Are the NeoCons gonna force me to like them? Am I going to be carted off to a concentration camp if I don’t?
December 15th, 2005 at 8:26 pmI-RIGHT-I,
If the Red Diaper Babies (and I did look it up) were/are NeoCons, then why the hell would we want a pair? It doesn’t make since.
I hate the NeoCons and I don’t say that lightly.
Do you think that there will ever be a time in my life that I will like NeoCons even one iota? Not likely. Are the NeoCons gonna force me to like them? Am I going to be carted off to a concentration camp if I don’t?
Comment by Spudge_Boy
Allow me to help. Neo-cons are left wing Jews turned conservative..sort of…who support the war in Iraq and Israel’s right to exist. Truthfully, there isn’t much of what I’d consider conservative about them. They at one time, (some of them) genuine Red Diaper Babies, brought up in Jewish immigrant Communist communes/neighborhoods in NYC in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s and attending NYU and Columbia. I suppose there are still there too. David Horowitz was a Red Diaper Baby and wrote a great book about his growing up in that society. Very interesting stuff. “Radical Son”.
There ya go, and personally I don’t care who you hate. You’re an idiot but not dangerous.
December 16th, 2005 at 12:35 pmhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/bushaipac2004.html
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:05 pmPa
You always have a choice, even if it is only a choice of your attitude.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:33 am