What Condi Needs to Worry About

[babylonsister]

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/2630/81/

What Condi Needs to Worry About
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
by Jayne Lyn Stahl

Some breaking news for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Instead of worrying about Vladimir Putin's "broad powers," she should read the headlines of her own nation's newspapers, be concerned about those "broad powers" her boss has borrowed instead. Condi told reporters, at a news conference yesterday, "In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development." (AP) A big, heartfelt amen to that.

And, during that same exchange with members of the press, Rice also observed " I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma." If nothing else, this administration appears to have masterd the fine art of projection. Feel free to substitute the words "White House" for Kremlin, and "Congress" for Duma, and you'll see, a perfect fit!

Condi's concerns for a tamper-free Russian presidential election, in the coming months, is also ironic inasmuch as her close colleague, and our last attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, was forced to step down due to lingering questions as to whether he lied, in sworn testimony, about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys many of whom reportedly refused to play ball and prosecute voter fraud cases as part of a white collar effort to steal yet another U.S. election.

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But, what Condi needs to worry about most is how military mercenaries can be engaged in shootings that can only be called entropic criminal events, as well as how it is that her buddy, the president, has managed to get away with unprecedented, and unparalleled wartime privatization. George W. Bush has done, with private military contractors in Iraq, what he was unable to accomplish with social security. He has, in essence, made a business out of putting world stability in peril in the name of maximizing corporate profit.

So, while she's in the neighborhood of human rights, and busy lambasting Russia's president for torture, and dubious interrogation tactics in Chechnya, Condoleezza Rice might want to pay a visit to Guantanamo Bay, as well as take a long, hard look at what is euphemistically known as "extraordinary rendition."

It would be really extraordinary if the secretary of state would explain how a country that claims to hold the moral high ground has all but shredded the Magna Carta, and may well be rememberd as much for Abu Ghraib as the Statue of Liberty.

[Demeter]

1. Condi Has Bigger Worries: War Crime Worries

She doesn't have time for all this statecraft--she has personal problems!

[Olney Blue]

2. Condi, you laid down with the dogs... how are those fleas working out?

[mwb970]

3. For one thing, she needs a new Irony Detector.

Rice also observed, "I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma."

The moment I read this quote from the loony Rice my jaw dropped to the ground. How is it possible for an American in 2007 to utter those words and not notice at all that they apply directly and accurately to the lawless bush regime and its campaign to undermine America and its Constitution?

Perhaps she "does not recall".

[ixion]

4. kicked and recommended

The neocon ability to project is truly astounding, second only to the MSM's inability (or unwillingness) to call them on it.

Glad to see meme coming online.

[rodeodance]

5. Condi is worried about HER legacy at this point----trying to broker peace in Palistine-Istrael

[tekisui]

7. She said,"Frankly, we have better things to do than stage photo-ops"

Yeah, like breaking the US, facilitating war profiteering, protecting the terrorist group Blackwater, buying shoes, staging photo-ops---er---.

Condi is going to be the ONE who brings peace to the Middle East. Right.

[tekisui]

6. One day Condi will be tried as a war criminal.

She should be worried.

[monmouth]

8. She really needs to hit that piano...n/t