Rice Refuses to Give Iraq Timetable

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/senate_rice_13

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) told senators on Tuesday that a U.S. exit strategy from Iraq (news - web sites) is "directly proportional" to Iraq's ability to defend itself against terrorists after this month's elections.


Stepping out from her largely behind-the-scenes role as President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, Rice said she could not give Congress a timetable for American disengagement.


"The goal is to get the mission accomplished," she said. "We're right now focused on security for the (Jan. 30) election."


Rice told her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing that spreading democracy through the Middle East remains a top administration foreign-policy objective.

[truebrit71]

1. The goal is to get the "mission accomplished".....???

Hey lady, didn't the chimp you work for already SAY that???

[mslux]

3. Carl Rove must be enraged

Isn't "mission accomplished" a verbotten phrase for bushco these days?

[Kolesar]

13. The goal is: mission-accomplished-related-programs

We never said "mission accomplished"

[sakabatou]

18. We did not say mission-accomplished-related-programs

We are freeing the people from the tyrany of "Mission Accomplished".

[ladjf]

5. No sh..t Sherlock. Weasel words.

[derby378]

2. B-b-b-but the SIGN, Condi!!

Y'know, that big MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign on the Abraham Lincoln! Uh, erm...Condi? Somethin' you wanna tell us?

[ladjf]

4. She is the queen of weasel words. What else would you have

expected?

[no_to_war_economy]

6. what a dink Biden is

Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

.. (from link) However, Biden also had blunt advice for European critics: "I have one simple message: Get over it. Get over it. President Bush is our president for the next four years. So get over it and start to act in your interest, Europe."

[SodoffBush]

7. can you post the linK?

I'm no Biden fan, but even I don't believe he would use such juvenile language.

[SOS]

9. re Biden

The quote is in the article.
Biden fails to realize that there is nothing for Europe to "get over".
Europe was acting in it's own interest when they said no to joining in the attack on Iraq.

[SodoffBush]

16. OK, it's at the bottom of the piece

I agree w/you. Biden doesn't make any sense in his comments. He sure isn't helping to build bridges across the pond. But this comment from Condi inre: getting out of Iraq:

"We did meet with some unforeseen circumstances," Rice acknowledged.

Shinseki didn't think the "circumstances" were "unforeseen." Neither did Schwartzkopf nor any number of generals who told Bush before "shock and awe" that his plan was shit out of luck from the git go.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

8. I hope you weren't

serious about the nomination in '08, you dipshit.

[ckramer]

10. Any DUers find Condi sexy?

eeeyou!

[0007]

17. Go to FR and find the bappies drolling all over her!

[sakabatou]

19. Icky

:puke:

[bkcc]

11. Did you have to include the picture?

*shudder*

Ugly and Evil. Not a good combination.

[leftchick]

12. Just watched condi get her panties in a Wad!

if she wears them. Barbara Boxer just gave her a grilling. pointed out her LIES! Condi freaks out and says " I won't accept you impugning my integrity"!

ROFL!

[Supersedeas]

15. direct quotes are unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable

up is down
black is white
and I won't accept you impugning my intergrity by telling me otherwise


Gotta give it to her:
She has the Rovian talking points strategy down

[PennyK]

14. The Boxer Rebellion, continued

Barbara Boxer gave Condi HELL! She accused the administration of attempting to drum up support for the and quoted Condi's many statements of what the Iraqui threat might be...oh, and how terribly wrong it was to send people away to die. Condi tried to "clarify" (obfuscate), and Boxer began to answer her, but then they broke for lunch. They'll be back at it at 2:30. Woo-hoo!

[Rose Siding]

20. ABC's funny funny header: Rice Links Iraq Withdrawal to Security

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=421705&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Now if she could just link it to OUR security! If the DEMS could just have linked a No Invasion postition to OUR security in the FIRST place!