A picture of Condi few see, fewer still remember

[NightWatcher]

from Chevron's Press release
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16, 2001 -- Condoleezza Rice, a Chevron Corp. director since 1991, resigned from the company's board, effective Jan. 15. Rice was named President-elect George W. Bush's national security adviser-designate.

"Condi is extraordinarily capable," said Chairman Dave O'Reilly. "Her leadership skills and breadth of experience in government, academia and business have been a tremendous asset to Chevron and will serve her well in the new administration."

For the past two years Rice chaired the board's Public Policy Committee.
http://www.chevron.com/news/repository/chevron_press/2001/2001-01-16.asp



The White House, already criticized for its connections to Big Oil, now is facing renewed questions over Chevron's decision to name an oil tanker for national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

The double-hulled giant, Condoleezza Rice, is part of the international tanker fleet of the San Francisco-based multinational oil firm, named several years ago in honor of Rice when she was a Chevron board member and stockholder.

Rice, the former Stanford University provost, served on Chevron's board from 1991 until Jan. 15, when she resigned after President Bush named her to the national security post.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/05/MN222557.DTL

[grasswire]

1. they must be confusing Laura for Condi

"The double-hulled giant, Condoleezza Rice......"

[karlrschneider]

2. Please don't post any pictures of her poop deck...

;-)

[Turbineguy]

5. That's not the poop deck

that's what we salty dogs refer to as "the fore skin".

[endarkenment]

13. I think you meant 'able seamen'. nt.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Their decision to honor her paid off tor them didn't it - except in Venezuela?

[Fridays Child]

4. A corporate-owned vessel, dedicated to oil.

The person, the boat...what's the difference?

[NightWatcher]

6. and we wonder why gas is expensive

[LiberalVoice]

8. Wonderful double entendre.

:hi:

[fooj]

7. KandR! Let's shine some light on this!

[ET Awful]

9. Double-hulled giant?

OHHHHH, they're talking about the ship. :P

I thought maybe we were being attacked by a giant Mecha-Condie.

[EVDebs]

10. Who better to push the Enron pipeline thru Afganistan

"While Haq was not part of the Bush administration's GOP (Grand Oil Plan) for South Asia, Karzai was a key player on the Bush Oil team. During the late 1990s, Karzai worked with an Afghani-American, Zalmay Khalilzad, on the CentGas project. Khalilzad is President Bush's Special National Security Assistant and recently named presidential Special Envoy for Afghanistan. Interestingly, in the White House press release naming Khalilzad special envoy, no mention was made of his past work for UNOCAL. Khalilzad has worked on Afghan issues under National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, a former member of the board of Chevron, itself no innocent bystander in the future CentGas deal. Rice made an impression on her old colleagues at Chevron. The company has named one of their supertankers the SS Condoleezza Rice.

Khalilzad, a fellow Pashtun and the son of a former government official under King Mohammed Zahir Shah, was, in addition to being a consultant to the RAND Corporation, a special liaison between UNOCAL and the Taliban government. Khalilzad also worked on various risk analyses for the project...

Assisting with the CentGas negotiations with the Taliban was Laili Helms, the niece-in-law of former CIA Director Richard Helms. Laili Helms, also a relative of King Zahir Shah, was the Taliban's unofficial envoy to the United States and arranged for various Taliban officials to visit the United States. Laili Helms' base of operations was in her home in Jersey City on the Hudson River. Ironically, most of her work on behalf of the Taliban was practically conducted in the shadows of the World Trade Center, just across the river. "

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/oilwar1.html

Does Condi know Laili Helms ?

[badgerpup]

11. Isn't it considered bad luck to change the name of a ship?

Thought I read that somewhere...sailors...and I'm not referring to the Navy here...had some traditions and superstitions about things.

Don't know much about Naval traditions on this point...correction...don't know ANYTHING about Naval traditions on this point.

[NightWatcher]

12. it's even worse bad luck to get caught with your hand in the cookie jar

So I guess that changing the name would look better than having "Condi the boat" as she takes a position as National Security Advisor.

[Jax]

14. Thank you NightWatcher

I have been looking for that disgusting tanker picture for a long time.

:thumbsup:

I'll never forget and I will do my best to not let anyone else forget either.

Alyce

[indepat]

15. If Condi were extraordinarily capable, one would think she would have responded to warnings of an

imminent attack for had she succeeding in her NS Adviser's role and the attacks of 9-11 been thwarted, she would have forever had her name enshrined as an American hero of the ages. But then, W would not have been handed his "trifecta."

[file83]

16. So when do they name the next Aircraft Carrier after Condi Rice?

After all, Condi has been very good for war business too.

[earth mom]

17. I thought it said "a double agent" there for a minute. Except-Condi still seems to work

for Chevron, doesn't she? :grr:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. Does Prada carry shoes for that?

:D