"We need a common enemy to unite us. We need a new threat." , March 2000
--Condoleezza Rice
"We need a new threat as a marker to where we will lead." --Condoleezza Rice march 2000
"Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy." --Condoleezza Rice
During questioning, she added:
"Saddam does not control the northern part of the country. We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."--Condoleezza Rice March of 2000.
“Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.”Condolezza Rice..
“I believe the title was 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States.'” Condoleezza Rice quote
“at a Broadway show and shopping for shoes,” Condoleezza Rice
“For those critics to ignore their own past statements, exposes the hollowness of their current attacks.” Condoleezza Rice quote
“High quality aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs. *** We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”"What we're seeing here, in a sense, is the growing -- the birth pangs of a new Middle East. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
And finally some parting quotes that I think we should think about.
"There is no 'war on terror', just the new Great Game" John Pilger, 2002, adding that the 19th century geopolitical struggle for power and wealth had merely been vastly speeded-up, and has become more deadly than ever.
"The contemporary language on terrorism has become the rhetorical servant of the established order." Conor Gearty, Director of Centre for the Study of Human Rights
edited to add the birth pangs quote