Rice Calls Brutal Oil-Rich Dictator a ‘Good Friend’

[Supersedeas]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/18/rices-good-friend-a-brutal-oil-rich-dictator/

Maintaining a high standard for both irony and hypocricy, the good Doctor and Secretary of State is in an oil rich nation making nice while diplomacy with Iran, Russia and China is handled by 'experts'...

<<Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, two weeks ago, lamenting how energy politics ‘warp’ foreign policy:

“I can tell you that nothing has really taken me aback more as secretary of state than the way that the politics of energy is — I will use the word ‘warping’ — diplomacy around the world,” said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 5.

Condoleezza Rice, last week, sharing a photo-op with Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Nguema is “one of the most brutal, most corrupt and unreconstructed dictators in the world”; he also controls the third-largest oil reserves in Africa:>>



My rich meter is about pegged, yours?

[Selatius]

1. What happens if the people overthrow Nguema? Are we...

going to treat the people the same as the Iranian people for overthrowing the US-backed Shah?

[yurbud]

7. yep--democracy measured by how free markets are not

how free people are.

[0007]

2. Pegged!

[Supersedeas]

6. Thanks 7...a lil levity is just what I need before I blow a fuse

[acmejack]

3. She wouldn't know diplomacy if it smacked her in the mouth.

The woman has absolutely no business running the State Department, but I guess that applies to the entire maladministration.

[Supersedeas]

8. but apparently she knows a 'historical document' when she sees one

[izzie]

4. These people would kill their mother for a dime.

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[cliss]

5. They're envious. I swear to you

they wish they could do things like in Equatorial Guinea. There was a photo posted of a horrible man, Islam Karimov. He's a vile dictator (Uzbekistan?). He's called the "boiler" he boils his opponents.


You should have seen the photo when he came to visit in Washington. This creep was surrounded by people. They had stars in their eyes, as they looked at him. It was admiration!!!!! I could almost feel their vibes. It was like,

"Man, whew. You are one tough dude, dude. If we could only take care of Americans like you do......"

[SOS]

9. Equatorial Guinea

The President's son goes on million dollar shopping sprees in London while the people are starved, tortured, robbed and killed by the President.
The stolen dirty oil money flows through banks in Washington and the murderous criminal is welcomed in the US.
When the oil and money are controlled by US corporations and banks, human rights are immediately thrown on the trash heap.

[Supersedeas]

10. but the historica" Sec of State wants to play it straight with oil policy