Bjorn's post on Condi Rice's visit to MN is very popular (as is our protest)

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6965970

Great job Bjorn and great outfit.





Here are some other links on the coverage.

Anti-Torture Protests At Condoleezza Rice Speech


http://The-UpTake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/2568/





Story by Matt Johnson

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Twin Cities tonight to find a couple of dozen protesters outside where she was speaking at the Beth El Synagogue in St Louis Park. The protesters were upset that Rice had said the US did not support torture even though prisoners were tortured while Rice served during the Bush administration. A You Tube video of Dr. Rice's torture statement can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA



Also posted at Daily Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/8/802320/-(Video)-Anti-Torture-Protests-At-Condoleezza-Rice-Speech-Tonight

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1. LTE on Condi's visit. in Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/69612837.html?page=2&c=y

(Star Tribune, Nov. 9).


RIce's appearance
The irony was right over her head
There is an irony beyond Hollywood in Condoleezza Rice's Nov. 8 appearance at Beth El Synagogue
The former secretary of state delivered her speech under a huge arch-like structure with the Hebrew words for "Truth, Justice, Peace" on it. What a setting for a high government official who helped lie us into war, and who says "we did not torture anyone."

CHUCK TURCHICK, MINNEAPOLIS

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2. U of M's Daily paper. check out the responses on the soft ball article

http://www.mndaily.com/2009/11/08/condoleezza-rice-speaks-amid-crowd-torture-protesters


here is Coleen's comment on Rice:

A Briliant Woman?! She's been wrong about everything!
Submitted by Coleen Rowley on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 12:22pm.
"Condoleezza Rice is a brilliant woman with experience.” Coleman said....“Every day, terrorists plotted and they planned,” Rice said. “We had to recognize that they had to be right only once, and we had to be right 100 percent of the time and that was an unfair fight.”

Orwell rolls over in his grave one more time! The woman is "brilliant" who gave a blank stare, exclaiming that "no one would have ever guessed terrorists would fly planes into buildings"? After she had been directly involved just months before in security planning for an international conference in Italy that encompassed this threat of terrorists flying planes into buildings. After she had been constantly briefed all summer from CIA and other intelligence on such threats including a heavy duty intelligence-based warning in July and also the August 6th "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US?"

Rice was involved in wrong calls over and over that led to American deaths; to rounding up 1000 innocent immigrants after 9-11 and touting it as "progress"; to paying bounties to gain captives to imprison at Guantanamo for years without any evidence of terrorism connections; to "fixing the intelligence" to enable launching pre-emptive war on Iraq, a country that had no WMD or ties to Al Qaeda and finally to the decision to extract unreliable confessions by torturing people that the U.S. kidnapped or captured, which also included some innocent people. Rice's record has been almost nothing but a long list of constant mistakes that have done nothing but damage U.S. security.

I think historians are going to be hard pressed to find that Condoleezza Rice has been right even once! Oh yeah, I guess she DID find a nice pair of Gucci shoes while shopping during Hurricane Katrina.