Condi Rice: Bush administration didn't realize "how incredibly broken Iraq was"

[sabra]

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20080804/NEWS/713441263/1062

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In the “words” portion, Rice was every inch the Secretary of State. She defended the decision-making process leading up to the Iraq War, calling the notion that the Bush administration just wanted to go to war something that gets under her skin.

However, she acknowledged that the administration hadn’t realized “how incredibly broken Iraq was” and how hard it would be to rebuild the country. Recently, the administration unveiled a new Civilian Response Corps, who will be trained to stabilize and reconstruct countries after a crisis like the Iraq War she said.

Speaking in respose to an audience member’s criticism, she also defended the Bush administration’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, arguing that the different committments of third and first world countries need to be clarified in those ageements.

[Supersedeas]

1. cognitive dissonance

[Disturbed]

2. Ms. Rice is a blatant liar.

Thanks to all of those Dims that voted for her to be SS.

[truthisfreedom]

3. The bush administration "didn't realize" that they had no idea what they were doing, condi.

And neither do you.

[newfie11]

4. And just WHO broke it!

Saddam, as evil as he was seemed to have it running much better than we ever have.

[2KS2KHonda]

5. How nice the Catty Runt is still pontificating.

:grr:

[AndyA]

6. Who could have possibly predicted that Iraq would be broken?

I mean, after bombing the hell out of it, slicing and dicing its government to pieces, destroying its police...who could have possibly predicted that would become a major problem???

What a bunch of fucking dim wits the Bush Administration is! If you told them all to go jump off a bridge somewhere, no doubt even gravity would not cooperate with them. :(

[Overseas]

7. Oh yes they did. They wouldn't have invaded if Iraq was strong and had WMD.

And now they've strengthened Iran by weakening Iraq still further. Thanks fellas.

[indepat]

8. Had National Security Advisor Rice taken a hard reading of all the hard intelligence

that was available about Iraq, she would have gotten a pretty good idea of conditions in Iraq, but that wouldn't have meshed with their RW ideological agenda, now would it? :P

[Wizard777]

9. Is she retarded? They bombed them for three freakin days!

The White House watched the bombing like a Fourth of July fireworks diplay. What the hell did they expect? To go in and just have to clear some brush. Nevermind crimes. They need to be removed from officer for mental disability and infirmity. They're just too fucking stupid!

[Flying Dream Blues]

10. Unbelievable. nt

[HooptieWagon]

11. And who was Nat Security Advisor when bushCo went to war?

They must have been pretty damn incompetent, huh Condi?

[lunatica]

12. Is there a name for someone who sees everything but the facts?

If not we should make one up. How about the verb to Condi. Or Condifying reality. The blatant condification of facts with the express intent to use any and all available twists and spin to hang on to an assertion in the face of overwhelming evidence and debunking.

Condification, similar to Pelosification but with a lesser tendency to the burying of reason through refusal to even address it:

Condify: The ability to justify the actions taken because the results of the original actions made the situation so untenable and unbalanced that it's necessary to take action like the original action which created the problem that now requires the action.

[burythehatchet]

13. Republickan

[lunatica]

14. That's too generic

And also covers Morans and Dimwits.

What Condi does isn't in that category. It's pretty much in a category all its own.

[Solly Mack]

15. Is she for fucking real?

To spew forth with such shit

[malletgirl02]

16. WTF?

Wasn't it her job to know that before we invading Iraq?

[bdamomma]

17. condi needs her butt to be thrown in prison

period.