Rawstory teaser: "Ex-Rice speechwriter says she doesn't have

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http://www.rawstory.com/

'vaguest notion' of history... Developing...."




Interesting... the lower the B*sh presidency sinks, the more rats will pop off the ship and spill B*shco's dirty little secrets.

After 2008 when The Thing is out of office, we're going to see a shit storm of mud fly from former low and mid-level B*sh Admin members. And perhaps a higher-ranking (even Cabinet-level) former B*shite?

Anyone want to venture a guess who might flip and tell on The Monkey and his inner circle?

[bigtree]

1. hey, breaking news

wind blows. lol

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. The bush-monkey doesn't care about history

The bush-monkey as quoted by Bob Woodward: "History. We don't know. We'll all be dead."

[alfredo]

3. Kick This could be fun.

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4. UPDATED:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/ExRice_speechwriter_She_doesnt__have_0119.html

An ex-State Department speechwriter today told the Wall Street Journal that his former boss Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacked a clear understanding of modern Middle Eastern history.

The article by Neil King, Jr., takes up the tendency of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to analogize current US policy in the Middle East with America's experience during the Cold War.

"When Ms. Rice talks about the challenges the U.S. faces across the Mideast, she points, somewhat surprisingly, to Europe after World War II and to the West's decades-long face-off against the Soviet Union, which happens to be her area of expertise," King writes. During a recent trip to the Middle East, the Secretary of State "engaged in several long historical tutorials with reporters in tow."

Rice's tendency to apply Cold War lessons to the Middle East has been criticized, even by a former speechwriter, as resulting from a "limited frame of reference," according to King.

[baldguy]

5. I've noticed this before,

and people say "But she's so smart..."

:banghead:

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6. from WSJ:

the original article, refernced in the Rawstory piece:

"The administration's reservoir of historical analogies seems limited to the 1914-1991 period. And it's all about Europe," said Adam Garfinkle, a former Rice speechwriter who edits the foreign-policy journal The American Interest. "No one in a senior position in this administration seems to have even the vaguest notion of modern Middle Eastern history."

[Tellurian]

7. IOW...She doesn't know what she's talking about..nm

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Condi has lectured Bush about the impending dangers if the Winterpalace, er um

the Green Zone, housing the Kerensky, er um, Al Maliki government, gets stormed by the bolsheviks, er um Sadrists, or is that the secular ex-Baathists, or is that the jihadist sunnis, or is that the Sistani followers, or...? Meanwhile, she also warns Bush about the need to maintain the loyalty of the Cossacks, er um Kurds.

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9. and she's the conduit connecting his bubble

to the outside world.

[Drifter]

12. You forgot the Secular Progressives ...

AND you forgot Poland !!

Cheers
Drifter

[malaise]

10. We have known this for ages

This bunch represents the most ignorant leaders on the planet.

[Forrest Greene]

16. Always Remember

...smart ain't wise.

[peekaloo]

11. She's been known to point to a hole in the ground when telling someone

to kiss her ass.

Not to mention making dentist appointments to try and bridge her credibility gap.

[peacetalksforall]

13. Bush is obsessed with back slapping, having

good talks, looking into souls, avoiding study, telling crude jokes, smirking, macho-ing, thinking he's the President, and hoping for a good legacy.

Cheney is all power, corruption, control, world ownership, contempt for little people, and a grand danger to opposition.

Rice is a token right winger. Not qualified because she is one inflexible case study who sold her soul. Queen of liars.

I expect future stories and revelations will prove what we know and the conclusions we've reached.

[npincus]

14. don't forget fart jokes!

[BlueEyedSon]

15. I believe she is an expert in US-Soviet relations & policy

A lot of good that'll do ya now!