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CONDI RICE SATIRE?

by Open-Publishing - Monday 20 June 2005
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CONDI RICE SATIRE?

By Peter Fredson

June 20, 2005

Today I saw a news item about Condoleezza Rice that had me wondering about her sincerity.

Here are some quotes direct from the great George Bush sycophant:

"We are all concerned for the future of Egypt’s reforms when peaceful supporters of democracy — men and women — are not free from violence. The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees, and when the independent judiciary replaces arbitrary justice,"

"Egypt’s elections, including the parliamentary elections, must meet objective standards that define every free election ... International election monitors and observers must have unrestricted access."

"I will have a chance when I’m in Egypt to talk more about the need for reform, about the need for the Middle East and Middle Eastern leaders to hear the voices of their people and their people’s desire for reform,"

"Very often people talked about the Middle East somehow being different, that what we needed to worry about in the Middle East was stability,"

"And what we learned is that we were getting neither stability nor liberty and freedom; we were getting instead a growth of extremism because people did not have channels through which to express themselves politically," she added.
"The time has come for the unelected few to release their grip of the aspirations of the people of Iran" she said, saying the Iranian people were losing patience with the oppressive regime.

"It is time for Syria to join the progress that is going on all over the region" she said, noting that Damascus "continues to harbor or directly support groups committed to violence both in Iraq and the Palestinian territories". She said democracy cannot work if "certain groups have one foot in the realm of politics and one foot in the camp of terror".

All those lovely diplomatic statements come from a person that urged death and destruction to Saddam Hussein, followed by collateral damage to other Iraqis. This is the one that talked about “mushroom clouds” from Iraq and the urgent necessity to rain down Shock and Awe on a sovereign nation.

This is the one that talked about “yellow cake” and the imminent threat to the United States. This is one of the people bullying the United Nations, one of the people urging UN inspectors to get out of Iraq so Bush could get in.

This is a genuine neo-con who favors corporate executives over a democracy, who favors preemption instead of diplomacy, who looks benignly on killing Iraqis to seize their oil. This is the person that the Downing Street Memo said talked incessantly of “regime change” and was one of the people desperately looking for a pretext to go to war, and one of the people most responsible for imposing a lie on Congress and the American public.

But the Bush bullying of its allies could hurt her credibility because of the unnecessary death of American soldiers, the Millennium corruption, the destruction of Iraqi lives, houses and resources, the American abuse of Iraqi detainees, the incredibly illegal detention and disregard of judicial proceedings in Guantanamo, the arrogant, secretive and deceptive policies of Bush that include making war on Iran and Syria and any other nation that Bush thinks will give him profit and glory.

So, I must conclude that the statements of Condi Rice, regarding the Bush administration bringing peace, freedom and democracy to anyplace, is a continuation of Bush deception or is pure political satire.

Forum posts

  • Diplomacy? So all Saddam needed was time to think? More time to lead U.N. weapons inspectors around the country on a leash, always knowing where they were going to search next? More time to continue his weapons programs?

    Facts:
    Saddam attacked a neighboring country. The U.S. (and many other countries) rallied to protect Kuwait from this invasion. Saddam lost, and was forced to sign a cease fire. He broke the cease fire, repeatedly, and broke numerous U.N. resolutions. You’re a moron if you think that going into Iraq was "preemptive."

    • I am afraid that your data set on this is incomplete; that is, about GW I. But that is not surprising.

      I would be very interested for you to post some proof of Saddam Hussien breaking the cease fire.

    • Condi is all part of the plan! They are trying to take away our rights, using the scare tactic to scare the America people! They all lied about the war. Bush has said he really doesn’t think about the real Terrorist Osama, instead he goes after Americans or anyone who question his authority! He is responsible for all the people, who are dying for you and your rich buddies, so you get richer than you already are! You want total control no questions asked! You guys are the real terrorist! The American people are waking up! We need to force you guys to go to war to fight this mess you have caused! You will answer for the lies!

  • Kinda Sleezy Rice and the rest of the crooks at Bu$hco are nothing more than maggots feeding on the festering wounds of humanity. Like cockroaches they should be sprayed or otherwise eliminated.

  • I heard the sleezy rice condiment as well. Ill thought out US foreign policy statements in terms admission that for 60 years ’’they’d got it wrong in the Middle East, and hadn’t promoted real democracy’’.

    In the cold light of day, it’s a veiled criticism of the Saudi regime, but come on Condi, if there’s free (Ha Ha) elections in Saudi, Turkey, Egypt or other states where the White House has been content for a US friendly despot to kill and rule -will Washington really allow a fundamentalist Islamic party to rule ? One that is systematically opposed to Western ’decadence’ ?

    Good idea to have an ethnic woman to ponce round the world -less offensive than a white millionaire such as fatfuck Cheney, 10/10 for PR, but come on, a brainless bimbo is a brainless bimbo.

  • Also, it’s great to say ’’Egypts elections must be fair, with international observers and monitors given free access’’ What about your own elections ?

    Maybe there should have been one or two allowed to monitor Ohio, to name but one dubious ’result’.

    • US elections were neither fair nor proper. In fact they were fixed to show Bush as a winner, even though he was not. It is hypocritical for Condi to criticize regimes in Arab countries when US has the most crooked elecroral process in the world!

    • The Bush government is the biggest terrorist organization on the planet, Sleezy the Promoter is just a war pusher for Bu$hco.