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Title: Condi Rice: History Will Rate Bush Well
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... /06/08/national/a120928D35.DTL
Published: Jun 8, 2007
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2007-06-08 23:59:25 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 1143
Comments: 13
(06-08) 17:42 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says history will remember President Bush's foreign policy favorably despite current troubles in Iraq, Iran, North Korea and the Middle East "History's judgment is rarely the same as today's headlines," she said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. Rice said she believed the world was more dangerous before Bush took office in January 2001 than it is now. "Six years ago ... it wasn't a very nice world. Al-Qaida was preparing to attack the twin towers, Pakistan was allied with the Taliban, Afghanistan was the base from where al-Qaida was going to operate, the Israelis and Palestinians had given up," she said. "The Palestinians had walked away from a chance for a Palestinian state, launched the second intifada; (Israel) elected Ariel Sharon who basically said there will never be a Palestinian state and there will be a greater Israel; the North Koreans were cheating on a deal that they had just signed; China and others were indifferent; Iran was cheating on the IAEA out of sight and Saddam Hussein was shooting at our pilots in the no-fly zone and making a mockery of the oil-for-food program and corruption was running rampant in that program." "That was the world. A worse world? I think so." "I think that what this president has done is ... to set up the long struggle that we are going to have to resolve particularly the problem of the growth of extremism in the Middle East, which was clearly there underneath the surface and exploded on Sept. 11." Asked how long it would take for the Bush administration's initiatives to succeed, Rice counseled patience. "I think there is a lot of progress," she said. "Now, will we see the end of all this? Maybe not. But when you are confronted with a fundamentally changed strategic set of circumstances, you can try to put Band-Aids on it, or you can say we are going to have to deal with the root problems here and it may take a long time." "It may take successive administrations to succeed. But we know what you have to put in place so that successive administrations can succeed. And you don't get there by covering up the problems or trying to find a temporary solution to them that isn't worth the paper it's written on." "I think that you will see that we are now at the beginning of a historic transformation and some of them may still work out on our watch and some of them may not," she said of today's problems. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/08/national/a120928D35.DTL
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Seems the crack epidemic goes to the State Department.
And well beyond...indeed!
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
well, i had a racist thought i won't type.
CundaLisa is dreaming. He'll go down in history as a coward and a War Criminal.
And now the Israelis and Palestinians are at peace?
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
it's just peachy now. she's as crazy as her boss.
that made me laugh :P
Putin said in an interview this week "The Americans torture at Guantanamo". I have noticed no one has refuted his statement. He also said our "leaders" pursue their ideas as if they were absolute truth which creates an impossible arena for dialog, compromise and making the world a more stable place. For those of us outside this forum, Putin has within the last week, exposed the emperor's nakedness for the entire world to see yet again. But most in America missed it. We are too worried about Paris Hilton having a breakdown in jail. And it is really frightening to see the YouTube debate over Ron Paul where the "conservative" talk show host actually believed the US could do whatever it wanted in the world without fear or reprisal. That our leader's actions are always benign and just. President Bush and his ilk are war criminals. That is how they will be remembered.
"People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people." -- V
I think it is more a matter that controlled PsyOps media wants people to be more concerned with Paris Hilton.
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Oh...I like that! Pate....registered Libertarian
Militia...if not now. When?
RON PAUL or REVOLUTION
"I think there is a lot of progress," she said. "Now, will we see the end of all this? Maybe not. But when you are confronted with a fundamentally changed strategic set of circumstances, you can try to put Band-Aids on it, or you can say we are going to have to deal with the root problems here and it may take a long time." "It may take successive administrations to succeed. But we know what you have to put in place so that successive administrations can succeed. And you don't get there by covering up the problems or trying to find a temporary solution to them that isn't worth the paper it's written on." She's as much a fruitcake as her Patience? Oh dear........even in the Book of Revelation, believers only had to endure the second half of the Great Tribulation with much persecution! And all of the Great Trib is only 7 years! Guess her mindset and his suggests he needs more time to perfect his 'god'ly powers.
Maybe she and Douglas Feith were sharing the same pipe.
Freeper motto: I read, but do not understand, I write, but make no sense, I think, but nothing happens.
Condi Rice: History Will Rate Bush Well
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
#2. To: tom007 (#1)
Seems the crack epidemic goes to the State Department.
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: Brian S, Jethro Tull, Christine, Honway, Robin, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, All (#0)
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
"Six years ago ... it wasn't a very nice world. Al-
QaiCIAda was preparing to attack the twin towers, Pakistan was allied with the Taliban, Afghanistan was the base from where al-QaiCIAda was going to operate, the Israelis and Palestinians had given up," she said.
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
"Six years ago ... it wasn't a very nice world.
#7. To: kiki (#6)
it's just peachy now. she's as crazy as her boss.
#8. To: Brian S (#0)
#9. To: scooter (#8)
For those of us outside this forum, Putin has within the last week, exposed the emperor's nakedness for the entire world to see yet again. But most in America missed it. We are too worried about Paris Hilton having a breakdown in jail.
Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. - Andre Marrou
#10. To: Original_Intent (#9)
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. - Andre Marrou
#11. To: (#8)
President Bush and his ilk are war criminals. That is how they will be remembered.
#12. To: Brian S (#0)
Asked how long it would take for the Bush administration's initiatives to succeed, Rice counseled patience.
hus, er boss, is!
#13. To: tom007 (#1)
Seems the crack epidemic goes to the State Department.
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