Rice Rejects ‘Escalation’ Language, Calls Bush Iraq Plan ‘Augmentation’
Rice Rejects ‘Escalation’ Language, Calls Bush Iraq Plan ‘Augmentation’
Yesterday, President Bush announced to the nation that he plans to increase America’s presence in Iraq by approximately 22,000 troops, with no timetable for when troop levels would be drawn back down.
Today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried her best to make this escalation plan more palatable to the American public. “I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation,” Rice told an incredulous Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Hagel responded, “Putting 22,000 new troops, more troops in, is not an escalation?” “I would call it, senator, an augmentation,” Rice said.
Watch it:
Transcript:
RICE: So I think you will find support among the people who are supporting Prime Minister Maliki in his desire to end the sectarian violence. And that is more than Prime Minister Maliki…
(CROSSTALK)
HAGEL: My question was the escalation of American troops in Iraq.
RICE: But I think you asked who was supporting it. And I said the Kurdish parties, Prime Minister Maliki and his Shia allies, and the IIP support a plan to do this. And they know that the augmentation of American forces is part of that plan.
Now, as to the question of escalation, I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation. What he sees…
HAGEL: Putting 22,000 new troops, more troops in, is not an escalation?
RICE: Well, I think, Senator, escalation is not just a matter of how many numbers you put in. Escalation is also a question of, are you changing the strategic goal of what you’re trying to do? Are you escalating…
HAGEL: Would you call it a decrease, and billions of dollars more that you need for it?
(CROSSTALK)
RICE: I would call it, Senator, an augmentation that allows the Iraqis to deal with this very serious problem that they have in Baghdad.
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very interesting. Even more telling during the hagel rice exchange. in trying to cover up the name “escalation” she admits that bush&co hasnt changed their strategy:
RICE:Now, as to the question of escalation, I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation. What he sees…
HAGEL: Putting 22,000 new troops, more troops in, is not an escalation?
RICE: Well, I think, Senator, escalation is not just a matter of how many numbers you put in. Escalation is also a question of, are you changing the strategic goal of what you’re trying to do? Are you escalating…
January 11th, 2007 at 6:13 pmIt’s a frightening thing to see Robert Novak go off the rails and attack the administration day after day as he’s been doing lately. In today’s article in the Chicago Sun-Times, Karl Rove’s favorite mouthpiece informs us through the Republican leadership as to just how unsuited Condi Rice is to be our Secretary of State (or Secretary of Stasis). Novak’s article is a must-read.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:16 pmCondi can never see anything. Who could ever imagine they’d fly planes into building, meanwhile Richard Clark’s hair is on fire. No secret prisons of torture. She is totally useless.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:17 pmNo one’s buying it, honey.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:18 pmShe also called a PDB saying “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.” A “historical memo”, remember?
Ignoring that it described then upcoming threats…
January 11th, 2007 at 6:20 pmEscalation is also a question of, are you changing the strategic goal of what you’re trying to do?
We don’t know, Sec Rice. You tell us, is Pres Bush changing the strategic goal or not?
Or are yo trying to say an escalation changes the strategic goal, but an augmentation doesn’t? Either way, there would be more troops on the ground. How would a choice of words determine whether or not the goals have changed? Specially since you just came up with that word and there is nothing substantive behind it.
How about “expansion”? What would that word mean in terms of strategic goals -change or no change?
Ugh… my head hurts…
January 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pmI never cease to be amazed at how STUPID they think we are.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pm“augmentation” I thought that had to do with breasts.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:25 pmBwahahahaha…
Timetable? NO. UR ANTIAMERICAN DIIIIEEE.
We do, however, have nonbinding benchmarks.
Escalation? NO. UR ANTIAMERICAN. DIEEEEEEEE.
We do, however, Augmentate.
Civil War?…
January 11th, 2007 at 6:26 pmTo # 7 - Unfortunately, some of us are that stupid. They are people out there who will still defend this double speak. Escalaltion meand augmentation and war means peace and freedom is slavery.
It’s only a matter of time before the neo-con machine starts declaring the likes of Republican dissenters as traitors.
Peace.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:29 pmCondie is right. Augmentation is defined as an enlargement, growth or increase which, ironically, is greater than an expansion. So, basically she has acknowledged that the surge is greater than an expansion.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:31 pmOK! I’ll stop now.
KKKarl Rove is at it again–working overtime with his thesaurus. How any of them can keep a straight face is beyond me.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:36 pmI’d say her augmentation is about a D cup.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pmYou see, we’re going to have an augmentation of troops. The troop levels will technically go from C Cup to D cup. The question is whether or not congress will fund the metal reinforcements needed to carry that much weight.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:40 pmSo if its not an escalation but an augmentation and the strategy isn’t changing, then this is ’stay the course, but kill more people’?
January 11th, 2007 at 6:41 pmArbitrary link of the day.
Old but still weirdly apposite: http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml
How time flies.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:46 pmShe meant to say the plan is “horse shit” not “bull shit”….there is clearly a big difference between the two when it come to Bush’s Iraq policy!
January 11th, 2007 at 6:47 pmWhat’s with the dud behind her - he seems to be asleep until she stops talking - then his eyes pop open?
January 11th, 2007 at 6:49 pmCaption
Dont you people know what a woman goes through when her shoes are too tight ?
January 11th, 2007 at 6:50 pmsoon, coming to a teevee screen near you, the “festival of drool”
imagine, important cabinet officials, justice officials, intelligence officials, having to swear under oath about what they do! You will see grown up republicans crying and wheezing, trying to answer questions about what they knew and when! You will see episodes of remorse and denial, blame and paranoia, right in your own personal spaces ladies and gentleman. You can watch as elected officials admit to being bribed by organized crime figures! You can watch the first war crimes trials in decades with people that you see on your TV in America! Watch as courts order people held for treason without habeas corpus rights, and they claim executive privilege! Hold on to your loved ones as US fighter jets shoot down fleeing political criminals attempting to leave the US for other countries with the proof that would send them to the gallows goes fluttering out the window of the plane! Be the first one in front of the 1950″ plasma to see the former president and vice president shot for treason and spying for numerous foreign nations!
maybe
January 11th, 2007 at 6:52 pmSpin spin spin, it’s still an escalation and we all know it. She is as full of it as Bush.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:52 pmWow, torqua, you beat me to it by 1 minute. Nice going.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:53 pmAqumentation, Hmmm ya know this thing HAS been a boob job from the beginining
January 11th, 2007 at 6:56 pmGood to see SecofShoes Rice hasn’t changed her sockpuppet ways. Just further proof we have no adult leadership at her level either.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:57 pmA pig is still a pig no matter how much lipstick is applied to it, Condi. A surge= augmentation( were not talking breast implants here) = escalation.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:59 pmYou can call it an engorgement, it is still the same thing. Bush wants to avoid using escalate, because of the negative connotations from Vietnam.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:05 pmLet’s augment her living quarters from Washington, DC to Levenworth KS.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:05 pmI think Condi deserves some credit for pulling off an almost impossible feat…
…speaking so clearly and using such complicated terminology as “augmentation”…
…with the president’s ba*ls in her mouth…
…is quite an accomplishment…
January 11th, 2007 at 7:06 pmShe must stay up late at night thinking of understated euphemisms.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:07 pmRemember the PDB?
Now escalation is “augmentation” - is she thinking of visiting her plastic surgeon soon?
The more our govt lets these liars play with words and not hold them accountable for the lies that constantly come out of their mouths the more we are being laughed at by the rest of the world. I am embarrassed by our govt, for its tolerance of these War profiteering criminals.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:08 pmSec Rice shares one trait with the trolls who post here: Instead of addressing the subject at hand, she goes off-track, argues semantics, and tries to find nuances where there are none.
It really matters little what we call it; we could spend days debating what that could, should be called. Fact remains there will be more American troops in Iraq. Or at least, Pres Bush hopes so.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:15 pmOh! You mean augmentation, Mr. President, not surge. Well, why didn’t you just say so in the first place. That’s a horse of a whole different color.
Except it’s not.
augmentation - some synonyms are: enlargement, intensification, magnification, raise, rise, strengthening, swelling
surge - synonyms are: deluge, flood, flow, growth, gush, intensification, outpouring, rise
So there is little difference between the two words
Why switch words? Because up to now, it stops people in their tracs. Americans are so afraid of looking dumb cause they’re not well read, so whenever you throw a new word at them, they stop thinking and get really scared.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:15 pmThe correct response to Condi would have been
Augment This!
January 11th, 2007 at 7:18 pmJoe,
I agree with you.
Most enlightened, knowledgeable people think of augmentation in terms of breast enlargement surgery.
I can’t see a flat-chested woman going to a plastic surgeon and saying: ‘I’D LIKE TO HAVE A BREAST “ESCALATION.” I’m sure the plastic surgeon wouldn’t have a clue. Do we, the American people, have a clue about this military augmentation policy? No! No! No!
I suppose DUMBO will be flying out to SILICONe VALLEY to sell this new military augmentation policy. Something tells me he’s going to fall FLAT ON HIS CHEST.
Augmentation? At least Condi has an excuse for her warped, faulty thinking. Maybe she had breast AUGMENTATION surgery, and the the silicone implants are leaking.
DUMBO, just try to explain your stupidity on leaking silicone breast implants. Just try! Just try!
WHAT A BOOB YOU ARE.
John
January 11th, 2007 at 7:19 pmmore shades of nixon…
January 11th, 2007 at 7:20 pmShe’s blind, unless she is lookin at shoes. So her Bossssssss.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pmShouldn’t she have been playing up the “word of the day” prior to GWB’s major speech?
Condi is evil.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:30 pmThis bunch of lieing rat basterd’s think we are dumb because the american people have been forgiving and allowed all their shit up to now….Now that the average person can see what is going on I am hopeful all this crap will end and we will be able to oust these war profateers and starters out of our administration there by getting our country back from the insane, greedy and people like rice with dead eyes…..Blessings all
January 11th, 2007 at 7:34 pmThe whore Condi Rice needs to shut her pie hole NOW. We’ve had enough of her lies and excuses and “big” words. She’s a failure. Bush and his entire administration are failures. The United States can no longer tolerate these clowns. We are the UNITED STATES for God’s sake. This is not how we do business. These bastards need to be impeached NOW.
January 11th, 2007 at 7:34 pmChildren,
Yeah, Bush is trying to pull a fast one. Is there such a thing as “brain augmentation?”
DUMBO certainly needs a bigger one.
John
January 11th, 2007 at 7:46 pm[…] CLICK HERE to watch her. […]
January 11th, 2007 at 7:48 pmJohn, what about a ‘breast surge’?
January 11th, 2007 at 7:50 pmUncle_Ho,
Gee, a “breast surge” operation sounds great and UPLIFTING. I wonder if it’s cheaper than a breast escalation? Has this been approved by the AMA?
A “breast surge” operation was probably approved by the Tijuana, Mexico AMA 10 years ago.
John
January 11th, 2007 at 8:04 pmEscalation…too much like Vietnam…bad.
Augmentation….bigger breasts…mmmm….good.
So the public can suck on that one for awhile.
Next up, replace the Saddam statue with one of Bush, and call it the Great Erection. Wait a minute, can you have a Bush Erection?
Yes, let’s keep fishing around through the Thesaurus to find a word we can use that technically describes the fact that we’re going to send an additional 21,500 young women and men to be shot at and blown up. If only we can find the right word…that will make it all better.
Would you buy a used War from this Administration?
January 11th, 2007 at 8:32 pmBush and Rice are cowards of the worst kind. It would take leaders of courage to do the right thing now and to get out of Iraq. Only insecure cowards who are worried only about their egos will take the easy way out by “staying the course” when it’s obvious to everyone that this strategy isn’t going to work. Bush and Rice, grow a backbone.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:36 pmJohn; yeah, probably for the Tijuana donkey shows, starring Condi & Laura.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:40 pmCondi replying…:’It is the same word, I mean …’augmentation’ and ‘escalation’..if you use our ‘New Way Forward’ Dictionary,you like the first.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:45 pmaugmentation? wtf? lol, this is killin me.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pmWould you buy a used War from this Administration?
Comment by truth fairy
I would buy a picture of GWB doing the perp walk….
January 11th, 2007 at 9:04 pmCondi’s Klingon forehead augmentation is looking a little worn today.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:05 pmShe should get bigger ones.
Breasts are augmented; wars are ESCALATED.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:10 pmBreasts are augmented; wars are ESCALATED.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:35 pmComment by Publicus
Well said! The masters of spin and obsufacation work more on that craft than they do on the peoples’ business.
John; yeah, probably for the Tijuana donkey shows, starring Condi & Laura.
Comment by Uncle_Ho
Uncle Ho, I feel like a brother to you now.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:43 pmCaption Contest:
Pasty White Dude: I think I see a bolt. Yes, that’s a bolt. What happens if I turn it?
January 11th, 2007 at 9:43 pm45. Truth Fairy, *clearing throat* emmm.
Nice post.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:45 pmCondi was squirming. “Please just give him one more chance, they helped me when I was just a tike.”
January 11th, 2007 at 9:46 pmNo, what Rice said was:
RICE STAMMERS WITH: So I think you will find support among the, ahhh, sh, the, um people who are supporting Prime Minister Maliki in his desire to end the sectarian violence. Ahhh, and that is more than Prime Minister Maliki…
(CROSSTALK)
HAGEL, SPEAKS CLEARLY AND WITHOUT HESITATION, UMMS AND AHHS: My question was the escalation of American troops in Iraq.
RICE CONTINUES TO SHOW HER TONGUE’S INEPT ABILITY AGAINST THOSE GAWDAWFUL TEETH: But I think you asked who was supporting it. And I said that the, the Kurdish parties… Prime Minister Maliki and his Shia allies, and the, uhhh IIP… support a plan to do this… and they know that the augmentation of American forces is part of that plan.
Now, as to the question of escalation, I think that, umm, I, I I…don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation. What he sees…
HAGEL: Putting 22,000 new troops, more troops in, is not an escalation?
RICE: Well, I think, Senator, escalation is not ahh, just, a matter of how many numbers you put in. Escalation is also a question of, are you changing the strategic goal of what you’re trying to do? Are you escalating…
HAGEL: Would you call it a decrease, and billions of dollars more that you need for it?
(CROSSTALK)
RICE: I would call it, Senator, aaaahn augmentation that allows the Iraqis to deal with this very serious problem that they have in Bag-g-dad.
Jesus, Sweet 8 Pound, 14 Ounce Baby Jaaaysis swathed in His Golden Fleece of a diaper; can this woman string ANY sentence together that doesn’t include her trademarked-ever-present umms, ahhs, and pregnant pauses… (well, maybe she can, as long as she’s negotiating the steal of $3,000 egglant colored pumps for a mere $1,500 while the killing of Americans continue to occur in a far away land)? Even the ears of a minimally trained linguist/psychologist can deduce that they’re lying.
Next time Ms. Rice speaks, just count the umms, ahhhs, trips of the tongue, etc. It’ll drive you crazy. Next to Bush, she’s the next person in this administration that I just cannot bear to hear. The office of Secretary of State is supposed to represent and voice the concerns/intentions/diplomatic direction of the United States of America to other countries. She’s better suited to negotiating “working girl” rates in some crummy dusty town in Hayseed Texas in 1890 (and one that doesn’t have a dentist’s shingle, to boot).
I heard an interview yesterday with Tom Vilsack, and, cripes, there wasn’t a single pause, hesitation, or even the hint of uncertainty with Mr. Vilsack words. Something we have been surely lacking these last six years; someone who can get their message across in coherent English.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:09 pm#45 - excellent idea.
I got out my Roget, and here’s what we find under surge
rush (as in hurry up and screw something up worse)
rush forward (see above)
flow (as in more blood)
pour (see above)
gush (yeah, blood pouring and flowing into the sands of Iraq)
course (wow, as in stay)
heave (what this policy makes me feel like doing)
pitch (what Bush is trying to do, as in selling snake oil)
swell (as in heaving and pitching, certainly not, like, fine)
and much much more
January 11th, 2007 at 10:26 pmIt is not an escalation, you dummies…its a 22,000-more-soldiers-to-Iraq-ation.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:29 pmIt is not an escalation, you dummies…its a 22,000-more-soldiers-to-Iraq-ation.
Comment by Juan C
Blond bimbo newsreaders can’t say that — too many syllables. :)
January 11th, 2007 at 10:44 pmThe number of troll-resistant threads have been increasing lately.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:48 pmRICE: Now, as to the question of escalation, I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation….I would call it, Senator, an augmentation that allows the Iraqis to deal with this very serious problem that they have in Baghdad.
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You say tomato, I say tomahto. “Augmentation” is nothing more than a convenient euphemism — much like the practice of referring to civilian casualties as “collateral damage” — designed and intended to mislead and manipulate the American people into thinking that what’s actually happening isn’t really happening. Unfortunately for Ms. Rice, referring to civilian deaths as “collateral damage” does absolutely nothing to change the basic fact that innocent bystanders have lost their lives — and in the same vein, she can try to refer to the troop escalation by any word or phrase she sees fit (she can call it a “head of lettuce” for all that I freakin’ I care) but it doesn’t change the essential fact that we’re sending more troops into Iraq and there is a very good chance that they will probably be remaining there for longer than we have been led to believe. All a euphemism like “collateral damage” or “augmentation” serves to demonstrate is that the people coming up with these phrases perceive the people to whom these phrases refer as being expendable, little or nothing more than cannonfodder or statistics on a graph — and that they perceive the people to whom these phrases are spoken as being gullible simpletons who not only don’t need but don’t deserve to know the truth.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:52 pmEscalation Obfuscation…
Word to the White House: Come ON! Give us SOMETHING to work with. You already had me skeptical. I’m sure as hell not carrying your water over this one:
“I t……
January 12th, 2007 at 12:19 amI gave you the gift of “choice” because I did not want a bunch of idiots blindly following me around… and now I see that some of you choose to be idiots anyway…
January 12th, 2007 at 12:48 am[…] Joe already linked to this video at Think Progress in which Senator Chuck Hagel and Condi Rice have a heated debate about the word ‘escalation’. If you haven’t watched it yet, watch it and read Joe’s post about augmentation. […]
January 12th, 2007 at 3:59 amBUSH JUST DONT GET IT DOES HE
Abdul Qadir Mohammed, a Sunni originally from Anbar Province, said: “Nothing will change. We have heard many similar speeches and nothing happened. We really hope that this new strategy will work but honestly from inside, I feel it will not.
“The Americans should be serious about taking serious measures against the ongoing Iraqi government because it’s the main problem at the moment, by backing the militias and the death squads. The best thing I see in this strategy is the sending of new troops into Iraq and the deployment Kurdish troops in Baghdad because both will not serve as death squads like the Interior Ministry commandos who have killed thousands of Iraqis for sectarian reasons.”
Hasanain Akram, 34, a doctor who was waiting in a petrol queue, said: “I expect that the new plan will make things even worse because both the Kurdish and the Shia troops from the south will only serve their sects and their people. I think if the Americans want to solve the problems in Iraq they should change the Iraqi government because it’s causing the main problems in the country. I’m very pessimistic as everything is bad in this country and there is lack of basic life needs: no electricity, no petrol, not water.
“Nothing is functioning properly in this place. Although I am Shia I refuse to be linked to Maliki and his Shia bloc, and all they have done in this government because they are not representing us and they are very sectarian. So the problem is not with Iraqis, the problem is with the government.
“Instead of sending more troops to kill more Iraqis they should fight against the corruption and sectarianism of the government. I was displaced from Al Adel neighbourhood and may not be able to get back to my house again in my life so what economic improvement are they talking about. Their promises will be just like the last ones that have never been fulfilled.”
Barber Ahmed Hussein, 30, a Shia, said: “Bush’s lies are countless. He kept on saying the situation in Iraq was very good and improving while Iraqis were killed, tortured and kidnapped so it shows how he says nothing but lies.
“I don’t think bringing more American troops will help because these troops don’t actually know what are the main problems in this country. Neither do the Kurds because they don’t even know the place and the language, so they will be of no help. So how would anybody expect any improvements and solutions for the problems if they don’t even understand what the situation is?
“Of course they should work on improving the economy of this country and providing new jobs and fighting unemployment, because most of those who join the militias and the armed groups are desperate jobless young men who had no other choice. But still I doubt that these promises will be fulfilled and I doubt the security situation will improve.”
Sa’ed Mohammed, a 25-year-old unemployed Sunni, said: “The security situation will not improve. The new plan will fail just like the previous ones and the occupiers will never build a country and the Americans are helping the militias to destroy the country which is something that goes with the interests of Iran and Israel. The Kurds don’t like Arabs anyway, so they will fail here and will not be really willing to help the situation.
Qassim Dawood Mujbil, 28, a labourer, said: “If this new strategy by Bush came only to correct his mistakes and improve his image in his own country - not really taking into consideration the real problems in our country - then it will fail and will be unwelcome.”
Sabah Ahmed, a 33-year-old Arabic language teacher and Shia, said: “Bush’s new strategy mentioned nothing about the logistic and financial support of the Gulf states to the Sunnis and it was confined to Iran and Syria for obvious political reasons linked to the relations between the two countries and the United States. Bush wants to punish Iran because of its nuclear projects and Syria for supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon, and mentioned nothing about the Saudi support to the Sunni extremists.”
Jasim Abbas al-Janabi, 42, Shia, said: “We feel impatient from just waiting and nothing is changing. I am unable to go to Baghdad any more and run my business between Najaf and Baghdad as I used to do in the past. If Bush really wants to solve the problems and destroy militias from both sides I will be the first one to welcome this new strategy, even if it is done by force.”
News of the extra troops did not trouble Sunni insurgents who spoke to The Times and vowed to continue their fight until all foreign troops withdrew from Iraq.
Abu Mohammed, fighting with the 1920s Revolution Brigades in northern Iraq, said: “America wants to use a magic stick to turn their dreams and fictions about Iraq into reality, which is impossible. The reason is that America is dealing with people who criticised Saddam in the past for all that he did and nowadays they are doing things that are ten times worse than what Saddam did.”
Sunni fighter Ahmed Al Hassani, with Ansar al-Sunna Army in central Iraq and Baghdad, said: “This new strategy was expected. It means nothing to us. We will keep going in our war that does not accept any mid-way solutions. Either they pull out of our country or the war will continue until we achieve victory.
Abu Qutada, a fighting with the al-Rashideen Army: “It’s very clear that America failed completely in Iraq in all aspects, as their politicians are saying. But we say defeated, not just failed, and they are nowadays desperate to find a way out of their troubles here.”
This week, in Baghdad’s Shia slum Sadr City, stronghold of the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, his widely-feared Mahdi Army ordered every man aged 15-45 to register for combat.
However Mahdi fighters said they had orders not to seek out confrontation with the Americans. “We won’t start a fight, but if they do then our people are ready to fight back,” one told The Times.
January 12th, 2007 at 4:48 amCondi does her job well. When asked a specific question, she never gives a direct answer. She plays word games, and as in this post, reader after reader fall into the trap.
Who the f**k cares whether its escalation, augmentation, strapulation, whatever…, she dones her job. She has so-called intelligent people debating the meaning of a word, and still has not answered any of the questions.
When will we stop allowing this handkerchief head heifer and others like her to stop playing these games and call her out.
Stop falling into the trap, and quit trying to debate the merits of whether is, is, whatever… It’s tiresome as she goes back to her office, grins, calls the idiot in the WH and reports that once again her “mission is accomplished.”
Stop it.
January 12th, 2007 at 8:04 amAugmentation…yeah right…change words to fit your arguement……
Bush can not even stand up to the weak Iraq president….. when he says he needed more support!
New euphemisms are comming from the Bush co. team…
This is really going to be bad.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:11 amHahahaha… Its because we live in the US of “A”. Assholes. Thats what they think we are. The most sweetest thing is, Bush, Dick, Rice, Snow and the entire administrative shit-heads are acting like complete assholes too.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:25 am[…] The escalation-surge-augmentation is “dangerously wrong-headed” and “will drive America deeper into an unwinnable swamp.” Who said that? Obama? Kerry? Biden? No. In fact, it was said by possibly the first semi-serious presidential candidate to speak of the need for an exit strategy, way back in August, 2005. Propagation: […]
January 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pmcaption
I just farted fellas can we hurry this up ?
January 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pmOFFICIAL 1: That’s it, let’s call it by another name and we can fool the American people. They won’t see it for what is really is. Man it sure is easy to pull the wool over their eyes.
OFFICIAL 2: What if they figure it out? What if they say it an escalation?
OFFICIAL 1: Then we’ll change it to something else. Remember, we are dealing with a bunch of fools. Some of them still think there are weapons of mass destruction. Or at least the one’s who voted Republican last November.
OFFICIAL 2: What about the Democrats? Won’t they figure it out?
OFFICIAL 1: We’ll just play the 9-11 card again.
OFFICIAL 2: I don’t think that card will play anymore. Remember what Bill Clinton said: “That dog won’t hunt”. We’d better think fast, the Dems are acting like a pack of hungry dogs and I don’t intend on getting eaten.
January 12th, 2007 at 1:39 pmThis administration doesn’t have a clue as to how to run a country, a war, a natural disaster… etc., etc. With them, it is all about PR, slogans, spin, perception management, and bull-s@*t. “Stay-the-Course” is now repackaged and reformulated — now with miracle ZR7© — into “A New Way Forward”. With a new advertising slogan, we are sure to win now!
January 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pmCan somebody PLEASE shoot her and put us out of our misery!!!!
January 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm[…] “I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation,” said Condoleezza Rice on Thursday. “I would call it… an augmentation.” (Watch the video at Think Progress) […]
January 12th, 2007 at 2:20 pm[…] So Bushy announces that we havin’ us a surge and now Condi says its not so much a surge. Yesterday, President Bush announced to the nation that he plans to increase America’s presence in Iraq by approximately 22,000 troops, with no timetable for when troop levels would be drawn back down. […]
January 12th, 2007 at 3:54 pmBush thinks by surrounding himself with people that are as incompetent as he, that he can hide his own flaws. It’s the same rule-of-thumb as how to apear attractive: surround yourself with really ugly people. In this case, Bush surrounded himself with someone who is both ineffectice AND ugly. So essentially, she has done her job well and is about ready for a raise and a promotion. No?
January 12th, 2007 at 4:40 pmRice doesn’t like the word: escalation, and prefers the more politically friendly word: augmentation. What is she; thinking about a troop surge, or a boob job? For heavens sake Condi, don’t play politics with the lives of the young people. Tell it like it is and quit with the freshman theatrics, already. Times a’wastin, girl!
January 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm[…] We’ll use Condoleezza Rice as the punching bag here; in testimony before the Senate yesterday, she said: RICE: […] Now, as to the question of escalation, I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation. What he sees… […]
January 12th, 2007 at 9:04 pmAnyone know where I could find the video of Condoleza Rice’s Testimony with the Senate foreign relations committee?? I couldnt find it on Youtube or Cspan,
January 12th, 2007 at 10:29 pmThanks
Rice should be held in contempt, for not answering the questions put forth and should be made to answer to a higher authority: the American people. We really deserve a lot better than she and her arrogant, evasive responses to serious questions. We’re not here to serve her, but rather, she was appointed to office to serve us, the people. And, yes, she makes an excellent punching bag. She is one of many apples from the same, bad barrell.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:43 am#45-The word is murder….
January 13th, 2007 at 10:07 am[…] I believe Alfred Einstein was quoted as saying, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We’ve been sending soldiers to Iraq for years and the results has been death, destruction, and now civil war. President Bush’s solution to the quagmire in Iraq? Send more troops. (Just don’t call it an escalation; it’s more of an augmentation. Thanks, Condi.) Well, I guess there’s a reason no one ever accused the President of being an Einstein. […]
January 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pm[…] Condi Rice repeatedly called Bush’s escalation of the war an “augmentation” during last week’s Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Bush’s New Iraq strateg. You know where that word is used the most? As a reference to breast implant jobs. I guess I could almost agree with Rice that Bush’s new war plan is a “boob job”. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried her best to make this escalation plan more palatable to the American public. “I think that I don’t see it, and the president doesn’t see it, as an escalation,†Rice told an incredulous Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Hagel responded, “Putting 22,000 new troops, more troops in, is not an escalation?†Rice said. . . . . . I would call it, Senator, an augmentation that allows the Iraqis to deal with this very serious problem that they have in Baghdad. […]
January 14th, 2007 at 7:46 amI’ve compiled some of the Senate Foreign Relations testimony into some transcripts. They are at http://boborojoview.blogspot.com, and I hope are fairly accurate. Only a couple Senators have actually released full transcripts of their remarks and Rice’s answers. Take a look, I’ll add to them as I get to it.
January 19th, 2007 at 1:17 amEvery time one of these Administration officials speak, they should be under oath and held up as perjors if they lie to Congress or the American people. Is it too much to ask that our Government tell the truth to the people who they work for?
January 19th, 2007 at 11:59 pmPure Doublespeak, she belongs in Oceania.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:15 am[…] draft has come up a lot, lately. It’s this unspoken assumption, I suppose, since Bush’s “troop augmentation” strategy as outlined in our last State of the Union. That assumption being, of course, that as we continue […]
February 14th, 2007 at 7:58 pm[…] Condoleezza Rice: ‘I would call it, senator, an augmentation.’ (source: Think Progress) […]
March 8th, 2007 at 6:04 am[…] Iraq as “the central front in the War on Terror.” With the arrival of the Splurge, the Augmentation, the New Fork Wayward, or whatever they’re calling it this news cycle, it became clear that […]
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March 23rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm[…] April 10th, 2008 · No Comments · The President doesn’t see [the surge] as an escalation…Escalation is also a question of, are you changing the strategic goal of what you’re trying to do? Condoleezza Rice, January 2007 […]
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