Condi Suggests Opponents Of Iraqi War - Would Have Tolerated Slavery

[kpete]

Condi takes historical analogies to an absurd level

Last week, top administration officials, including Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, equated the war in Iraq with fighting Nazis in World War II. As part of this analogy, the Bush gang made its critics out to be Neville Chamberlain — as if troop redeployment in Iraq is the moral equivalent of appeasing Hitler.

As if that weren't quite offensive enough, Condoleezza Rice has upped the ante a bit, suggesting that opponents of the war are the moral equivalent of those who would tolerate slavery in 19th century America.

Secretary of State Rice compared the Iraq war with the American Civil War, telling a magazine that slavery might have lasted longer in this country if the North had decided to end the fight early.

"I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold," Rice said in the new issue of Essence magazine.

"I know there were people who said, 'Why don't we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?'" Rice said.

Now, I know that Rice, like much of today's Republican Party, is desperate. I realize that this appears to be a challenging campaign cycle for the GOP, and they're willing to engage in whatever demagoguery necessary to survive the next 10 weeks.

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[rodeodance]

1. all of a sudden her imagination is good? geesh!

[liberaldemocrat7]

10. HEY Kindasleezy, answer this !!

Hey Kindasleezy why do you and your REPUBLIKLAN congress and chimpenfuhrer support $5.15 an hour slavery in this country? In 9 years since the minimum wage has stayed still, inflation and other factors has reduced this so called $5.15 an hour salary to about half the value. Now who supports slavery Kindasleezy?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Invoking the Revolutionary War and WWII didn't help. The Civil War

now gets trotted out.

And, Condi talking about slaves...sublime meet ridiculous. MKJ

[EFerrari]

16. Next, liberals cut and run at the Alamo.

:rofl:

[radfringe]

23. kinda funny that when invoking

the various wars - the bushies always seem to leave out Viet Nam...
wonder why?


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[RedStateShame]

3. Uh, Condi, a word with you, please...

you're losing touch with your base!!

[pooja]

4. Well, isn't a lot of their base support racist asses... who is she

appealing to.

[ComerPerro]

5. CONDI HATES THE SOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EFerrari]

11. Bingo! What a stupid move. n/t

[formercia]

6. Absurd to put in mildly. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

7. No kidding. Live and learn. nt

[bryant69]

8. That statement shows a remarkable lack of historical perspective

I guess you have to expect that. Presumably Condi picked up most of her historical information from sugar packets.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[ThomWV]

9. I Had Never Thought Of Here As A Champion For The Cause

of Civil Rights.

[EFerrari]

12. Nope. When she was at Chevron, Chevron armed the militias

that massacred protestors in - Nigeria, maybe?

Civil rights, no.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

15. Slavery my ass, Kindasleazy has rode the coattails of Civil Rights

workers her entire life. She enjoyed a nice middle class upbringing in Birmingham and her family refused to get involved with the Civil Rights struggle of the 60s - sitting it out and not putting life or limb into the fray. Her father, a preacher (not a "sharecropper" the repugs love to throw into any discussion about any repug from the South) did not join others in the boycotts and marches but preferred to hold on to what little prestige he had by not getting involved.

Then she coasts along on the backs of all who fought that battle and pretends she has some kind of authority on the issue because she lived in Birmingham at the time. I'm sick and tired of this woman who panders to a stupid, clueless man, who shops for shoes while people drown and who evokes the Civil Rights struggle and slavery when it suits her purpose. She speaks Russian and can play a piano but that is pretty much it for her talents or abilities. Worse Secretary of State ever serving the Worse President Ever.

Now I'm a slavery appeaser. Can they go any lower?

[DireStrike]

13. While they ignore slave labor in all the countries that produce our crap

Yes, paying somebody 4 dollars a year counts as slave labor. Especially when that year is filled with 15 hour workdays.

[spanone]

14. Oooh, now it's getting good the Commie/Race card.

Just an indicator of how fucking nasty it will be. By November, we'll be GAY commie racists!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. No, Gay Commie Atheist Mexican Racists.

[fasttense]

17. And wage slavery is a ok by repuke appeasers. Not to mention

appeasing every corporation that might be hanging out at the white house.

[zbdent]

18. You mean, the conservatives of the slavery times?

those who didn't want slavery to end?

That's strange, since it was the Liberal Republicans (of the time) who fought for the freedom of ALL, right?

[liberalmuse]

19. These people are shameless.

Utterly fucking shameless. Hearing these assertations from Bush, Rummy, Cheney and Rice is like hearing a pedophile explain that anyone who doesn't agree with his molesting children hates children. Unreal.

[peacetalksforall]

20. I think we should start trying to figure out the precise target audiences

these people are after - in a serious way.

Who is she trying to win? Was it calculated? Or did it just come stumbling out of her mouth? Keeping in mind that Rovians are always trying to win and rescue and keeping in mind that they may not have 'gain' in mind, but rather 'retain' they may only have her targeting their same old bigoted base - they may want them saying or thinking - 'traitors' (in a bizarre backward way).

[Benhurst]

26. I think it's more a reflection of her personal demons than anything

else, in line with her statements about her family not being bothered by segregation because they were allowed to shop in the white stores at night! Or the death of the little girls (her contemporaries) in the Birmingham church bombing having had no influence on her. Or her lectures on the profound academic roots of her silly, made-up name, and her statements that she wasn't exposed to popular music until she left home for college.

As usual, her main mission is to prove how fine she is, how aristocratic, how completely to the manner born.


She is one sick person.

[peacetalksforall]

32. I think you may be right. I didn't know about most of these statements.

I think I find her politics and lies so repulsive that I am grandly turned off and have little interest in knowing about her. It's like punishment to listen and know how severely and how badly she lies. I was turned off the minute I learned that she was part of Iran-Contra.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. "How to win friends and influence people" by Condoleezza Rice

She's a keeper! :silly:

[Ganja Ninja]

24. Lets talk about slavery and the real appeasers - the GOP.

Who was it attacked us on September 11th?
answer: A group of Saudis from a Saudi founded, Saudi funded terrorist organization trained in Pakistan and based in Afghanistan.

Who did we go to war with as a result?
answer: Saudi Arabia's biggest enemy Iraq with Afghanistan on the side.

Today our enemy's leaders are hiding in Pakistan and are still funded by Saudi money and who are we threatening with war?
answer: Saudi Arabia's second biggest enemy Iran.

See the pattern? George W Bush and the GOP appeasers won't confront the real source of the problem the Wahib's of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is an oppressive country that does tolerate human trafficking and slavery and treats women as personal property. Saudi Arabia the good friend and business partner of big oil, the Bush family and the GOP. We can always look the other way with them as long as the oil keeps flowing.

[ERF]

25. Replace the word "Saudi Arabia" with "oil" and you are on to something.

[madrchsod]

27. she is one sick bitch

walking on the graves of the dead...no wonder their is no one in the civilized world that respects her and her boy toy

[Jacobin]

28. She views Iraq as part of the United States

I don't think that is a widely held perception in this country and I think she is digging a deeper hole for herself.

I'm actually rather enjoying watching the neo-cons spin around trying to blame others for their catastrphes.

[goddess40]

29. another example of the repugs living in opposite world

They like to project their sins on to others. By putting it right out there in the open and labeling someone else with their beliefs/actions they seem to deflect the truth.

[mike_c]

30. my, my-- they ARE getting desparate....

How far can we be from "Opponents of the war against Iraq eat live kittens and cause cancer?"

[abluelady]

31. So Typical

The republican hypocrisy never ends. It grows and grows and grows. I can't even express what that type of rhetoric brings out in me.:grr:

[nancyr]

33. No comment

Can't even make a comment on such an over the wall statement. It's beneath my dignity.

[Generic Other]

34. Hey Condi! What Harry Belafonte said

"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and there were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him...The idea that you work in the house of the master is almost in itself its own opportunity to do some mischief and make a difference, but when you are in that place and you help perpetuate the master's policy that perpetuates oppression and pain for many others, then something has to be said about it," Belafonte said. "And the master in this instance, of course, was the president of the United States."

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/10/15/belafonte.powell/

[Coexist]

35. Ouch!

:evilgrin:

[cynatnite]

36. What haven't they tried...

The War of 1812
Bay of Pigs
Little Big Horn
The Korean War


Whatever we lost they'll blame us anyway. :eyes:

[Generic Other]

49. War of 1812

We would be Canadians today if we'd lost that one...and we would be cursed with universal healthcare, a high standard of living, and funny looking money.

[Jawja]

37. Oh, now, we are going off

the deep end, aren't we? :eyes:

[Jawja]

38. Duplicate

and deleted.

[newspeak]

39. a little delusional, I think

You forgot the Quakers, Condi!!!! The Quakers, you remember them, don't you Condi? They were against slavery--they are against this war!!!!

[porphyrian]

40. Proof that college education doesn't keep you from being stupid as fuck.

At least she'll know if she's developing colon cancer with her head that far up her ass.

[MisterP]

41. an expansionist, aristocratic, rights-crushing regime declaring war

on another country without provocation so it could exploit darker people? I'm surprised Condi isn't applauding the CS over the US!

[Martin Eden]

42. How many swing voters are going to be influenced by such BS?

And how many of those are going to vote ANTI-repuke because they can smell the BS?

[w4rma]

43. They just keep throwing out the poop hoping some of it will stick. (nt)

[bridgit]

44. oh...so now we're members of the KKK...

:eyes: cornered ratz & badgers i tell you, cornered ratz & badgers ~

[Cocoa]

45. Condi is proud of her house slave ancestors

in the absurd biography "Condi" there is an anecdote about how her great-grandmother saved all the master's horses from the Union Army. It's a prized part of her family lore.

[warrens]

46. This pig should be

Choking on bloody chiclets.

[tgnyc]

47. Every time she tries to be a black person she winds up humiliating herself

Take it from an African-American, sista girl: you need to go buy some f-ing shoes or something and shut the hell up.

[2Design]

48. she is a slave now

and she supports slavery by rw government - and all that implies with their very white organization
she is so stupid

[ecstatic]

50. wait... did Iraq have slavery?

Last I checked, the citizens were free to move to other countries if they chose to (there were quite a few Iraqi students at my university). And, last I checked, Iraqis (in general) are far worse off today than they were when Saddam Hussein was in power. Shame on you Condi!!

[PresidentWar]

51. Her ilk were the House Slaves

Who are ohhh so grateful to MASSAH for letting them work in the house instead of out in the fields.

That woman makes me fucking nauseous.