"DR. Rice seen as in charge of U.S. foreign policy"

[Bluebear]

Three weeks after taking office, Condoleezza Rice hosted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and their Japanese counterparts at the State Department. When Rumsfeld began to speak, Rice gently cut him off. The message was clear: I'll take the lead, Don. Both Japanese and U.S. officials noted the decisive nudge.

Now six months on the job, Rice has clearly wrested control of U.S. foreign policy. The once heavy-handed Defense Department still weighs in, but Rice wins most battles -- in strong contrast to her predecessor, Colin L. Powell. White House staff is consulted, but Rice designed the distinctive framework for the administration's second-term foreign policy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/washpost/20050731/pl_washpost/at_state__rice_takes_control_of_diplomacy&printer=1

[Glorfindel]

1. Goody, goody....I'm SO thrilled

What could possibly be better than having our foreign policy in the capable hands of the Wicked Witch of the East? She ranks right up there with Ed Meese, James Watt, and defeated senator turned Attorney General John Ashcroft. What heady, heady company. Now if only * will recess-appoint Bolton the Magnificent to the post of Ambassador to the UN, we'll be all set. How richly blessed this nation is with talent!
:sarcasm: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Arkana]

2. Darth Condi is slowly trying to consolidate Imperial power.

God, I hate that woman.

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Pathertic Condi trying to hide her ARROGANCE and Ignorance

And she poses as someone who kjnows what to do...when in fact, she and her boss has blown all the opportunities to do good and played all hands leading to disasters....

What GOOD have Team BUSH done so far??? Nada....nothing for the COMMON GOOD.

[Cha]

4. Yeah? con rice was "in charge"

of National Security when 9/11 happened, too. What Fresh Hell is in store for America under the guise of "Foreign Policy"?

[Bluebear]

5. Stop! She needed the exact flight #s & seat #s & frequent flyer #s!

Then she would have "moved heaven and earth" to stop it! :eyes:

[Lannes]

12. She didnt even know her role as National Sec. Advisor!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4695313/

Does Rice really know her role?
How national security adviser's testimony hurt Bush

an exerpt:

"A self-proclaimed expert at understanding "structural" change in large institutions, Rice wasn't aware — may still not be aware — that the nature of her job had changed by the time she took over as national security adviser in January 2001. Reared in the Cold War era, she saw herself following in the footsteps of Henry Kissinger. "National security" was largely a matter of global state-to-state diplomacy.

In fact, as her predecessor in effect warned her when he was turning over the keys, the model was no longer so much Kissinger as it was, say, Elliott Ness or J. Edgar Hoover. If, as she said, we had been at war with terrorism for 20 years; if, as she said, the terrorists are determined to attack America, then the NSC chief has to be a ruthless hunter for clues around the world — and on American soil.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, she acted as though the question was an odd one: It wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is."

[Cha]

15. Thanks! And, of course, ricehead

got promoted for not knowing what her job as National Security Advisor was.

That's what chimps do.

[Lecky]

6. That was a nice puff piece about Condi

I thought this quote was cute.

"U.S. foreign policy has always had "a streak of idealism, which means that we care about values, we care about principle," Rice said in an interview last week. "The responsibility, then, of all of us is to take policies that are rooted in those values and make them work on a day-to-day basis so that you're always moving forward toward a goal."

Bwahahaha!

[Clark2008]

7. Not that I think Neo-Condi is brilliant, BUT, I'd rather have HER

in charge of foreign policy than the asses of evil: Bushie, Cheney and Rummy.

That said, it's definitely a study in the least of four evils. She may have a warped sense of reality, but she's not an imbicle.

[UTUSN]

8. Well, Somebody's Got to Pretend SOMETHING! nt

[H2O Man]

9. I just have the image

of her glaring at Richard Ben-Veniste when he exposed her as either incompetent, a liar, or both. She made Charles "Sonny" Liston's pre-fight stare look warm and friendly. I think she is evil.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Lately the only expression she's been wearing has been one of someone

who hasn't been able to take a satisfactory bowel movement in several weeks.

[Clark2008]

13. May I ask - who that man is in your avatar

If you say "Phil Daniels," I think I'll faint.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Sorry... Jonathan Pryce as "Sam Lowry"

In what I consider to be the "Citizen Kane" of the 2nd half of the 20th Century:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. "Responsible for Bush foreign policy" does not look good on a resume

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. *lol*

[ignatius 2]

17. Jesus 'effin' Christ, like that is something to be proud about!

n/t