Condi tells Hannity "the policies are working" in Iraq

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153546,00.html

HANNITY: Let's talk about, you know, earlier this week there has been so much good news coming out of Iraq. The insurgency, especially after the election, has almost dropped off the map. There was talk earlier this week also of the possibility our troops can come home much earlier. It's been a tough 24 hours. Where do you see Iraq now in terms of the timetable and where we're going?

RICE: Well, again, we have been very careful not to set timetables, but to talk about a success strategy in Iraq, not an exit strategy. And nothing has changed in that regard, except that I think we're beginning to see now elements that show that the policies are working. The Iraqis are taking more responsibility for their own security, and that's going to increase as those forces become better trained. Clearly, the Iraqis made a huge step forward with the January 30th elections. I have said that the Iraqi people faced terrorism and faced it down, because they said, we are not going to be held fearful. And as a matter of fact, the fact that they voted in large numbers is terrific. And they now have a political process under way. You defeat an insurgency politically, and they now have a political process where people's interests can be accommodated. We're still going to have bad days, like the last 24 hours, because the terrorists and the insurgents are still going to try to derail the process. But every day that Iraq is making progress on its political process is a bad day for terrorism.

HANNITY: We see a lot of movement in the region. When you look at the events that have been unfolding in Syria, democratization, to some extent, in Egypt, changes, a shift even in Saudi Arabia, a movement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When you look at all of these things, do you believe this is a direct result of the United States' actions, specifically with its allies in Iraq?

RICE: Well, clearly something has changed. And when the United States and its allies were able to first liberate Afghanistan and then liberate the people of Iraq, it fell then to the people of the region to take advantage of the opening that was created by that. And they're taking advantage of that opening. And Sean, what the American president can do is to change the sense of what's possible in the world. It's not that the United States can make decisions for the people who are fighting for their freedom. It's not that the United States can bring freedom to a people. They have to do that themselves. But the American president can change the sense of what is possible. And clearly, what seemed impossible a few months ago now seems almost inevitable for this region. And so, that's really what I think the policies have done.

[Zuni]

1. Hannity is such a brownoser with republicans

I hate him. He is a fucking brainless neanderthal.

[Jacobin]

2. Sometimes I wonder if she's stupid enough to believe her own

bullshit.

I really do.

Sometimes she appears to actually believe the idiotic things she says.

That is frightening.

[Vickers]

3. What hard-hitting questions...way to keep her on the ropes, Sean!

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[Skittles]

4. that bush whore needs to spend a year in Iraq

what a disgusting piece of garbage she is

[demokatgurrl]

5. Maybe she was trying to hypnotize him, and us. n/t

[rodeodance]

6. Hannity said it was an 'exclusive" interview -- tell me what questions

will make you and bushco look good. that is the exclusive!

[tex-wyo-dem]

7. Always, always, always remember....

when dealing with the ** crime family, the ends justify the means. * and his minions will lie through their teeth to support their larger agenda at all costs...Sean Insannity is just a tool to get it out in the public and try to lend the lies credibility...and he's making a fortune doing it.

This war in Iraq has little to do with "freedom" and "democracy" for other peoples (although it's being sold as such) and has everything to do with controlling the region and assets that it holds (i.e. oil).

Watch for the cabal to start building the case for attacking Iran in the coming weeks.