E&P: Secretary Rice Slams 'Washington Post' for Karzai Claim

[DeepModem Mom]

Secretary Rice Slams 'Washington Post' for Karzai Claim
By E&P Staff
Published: June 27, 2006

NEW YORK -- In an article in The Washington Post today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice disputed the newspaper’s claims that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is losing support both domestically and abroad.

Rice spoke to reporters on Monday before she commenced her trip to speak with leaders of Pakistan and Russia. Calling Karzai an "extraordinary leader," Rice went on to criticize Monday's Post article that used quotes from anonymous European and Western diplomats to demonstrate the increasing concern among those communities about Karzai’s abilities.

"Who are they?" Rice demanded in the article. "For whom do they speak? And what level do they speak? I have not heard this from my counterparts. Steve Hadley doesn’t hear this from his counterparts. The president doesn’t hear this from his counterparts."

Rice stated emphatically in the Post that the United States would continue to "back (Karzai) fully."...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002728706

[onehandle]

1. Go swab the decks of your oil tanker you irrelevant hack. nt

[sui generis]

2. *throws tantrum*

(paraphrased) "why can't you people just go along with whatever we tell you! Why do you insist on thinking for yourselves? Don't you realize you're giving aid and comfort to the terrists? You're supposed to just march in lockstep!"

Well now, ma'am, I have some advice.

If you put somebody into an impossible position, as you did with this moron we have in office here, you lower expectations, just like you did for Bush's "debates", so that not failing seems like winning by a landslide with a mandate, even if you had to cheat to do it.

When you put Karzai in, you announced with tin trumpet fanfares, purple fingers and bandages that Afghanistan was now a democracy, and that all those confusing names and sects of religion and tribes and political history and feuds and vendettas and fatwas were going to just miraculously stand up and cheer. But that was clearly not reality, and putting lipstick on that pig when everyone is clearly looking a pig is why you're having your tantrum. Ma'am. G'day.

[Supersedeas]

13. knee jerk Bush Admin tantrum -- blame the media when officials are

behind the curve.

[Solly Mack]

3. Oh, she wants transparency does she?

That's rich

[patcox2]

4. She doesn't understand that this is how she was meant to hear?

Idiot. Does she not understand that having diplomats speak to journalists to prompt a story like this might be the means chosen by foreign nations to communicate their position to the Bush administration?

[Robb]

11. No kidding. Diplomacy 101.

Clearly she got her degree from the back of a matchbook. :D

[Supersedeas]

12. me thinks Dr. Rice needs a diplomacy tutor

[acmavm]

5. She has a college degree? One in a type of history/government?

One that is associated with the Soviet Union?

Does that skinny hag not know what's happened to every nation that's tried to go in and take over Afganistan? INCLUDING THE SOVIET UNION?????

She is vastly over-rated in the intellectual department.

[frylock]

10. she's a box of rocks..

but boy, can she ice skate!

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Rice Challenges Report on Afghan President
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 27 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived here Tuesday at the start of a trip that will also take her to Russia, announced she will go to Afghanistan on Wednesday morning to bolster support for embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

On the flight here Rice fervently defended Karzai as an "extraordinary leader," dismissing a report in The Washington Post that he is losing Afghan and foreign support.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062700254.html

[IndianaGreen]

7. Karzai can't travel outside of Kabul without an army to protect his sorry

ass. This is the same Karzai that appointed an Islamic radical to enforce morality in the country, i.e., sharia law.

[Roland99]

8. Does this mean we have a new LEAKER?! Who LEAKED??!?!

FRY THEM FOR TREASON!!

[BeyondGeography]

9. Don't worry, Condi, anti-Karzai sentiment is in its last throes

and you'll be able to shop whenever you want in 2.5 years.

[DrDan]

14. the President doesn't hear it . . .

of course not - he's making his big plans to visit Graceland with Koizumi

he has his priorities

[Richard Steele]

15. I will dispute the claims that Karzai is 'losing support' as well.

Because he NEVER HAD ANY to lose.

The rest of the world gets the REAL picture.
Karzai doesn't have enough support or power
to leave Kabul without a permission slip from
one of the warlords who actually control the country.

He is a puppet whose only 'support' comes from the US military.

[lonestarnot]

16. More whistle please.