Rice Defends Characterization of Saddam

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041003/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq&cid=542&ncid=1480


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"The intelligence community assessment as a whole was that these (tubes) were likely and certainly suitable for, and likely for, his nuclear weapons program," Rice told ABC's "This Week." She said the director of the CIA (news - web sites) at the time, George Tenet, believed that the tubes were for centrifuge parts.


"When you are faced with an assessment that Saddam Hussein is reconstituting his nuclear weapons program, that he has by the end of the decade the probability of having a nuclear weapons ... the tendency is always not to want to underestimate these programs," Rice said.


But two years later, Rice insisted she has no regrets about how the administration portrayed what it believed was a dangerous threat posed by Saddam.


"I stand by to this day the correctness of the decision to take seriously an intelligence assessment that Saddam Hussein would likely have a nuclear weapon" if action wasn't taken.

[phirili]

1. C Rice lying her ass off with Wolfy

[Frances]

3. Listen to her voice

She sounds a lot more nervous than she usually does

But, of course, being Republican means never having to say you're sorry

[Kagemusha]

2. An intel assessment by some junior analyst nobody right?

That's what I've heard. Jerks.

[clydefrand]

4. Condi Rice is a liar!

Mr. Blitzer: I am so disappointed that you allowed Ms. Rice to get away with not telling the truth about what Bush and Cheney have always said and that is: Iraq had something to do with 9/11. Please look at this website and you will see plainly that he did indeed say that Iraq was involved with the attacks on 9/11. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html Please read this and correct your guests who are not telling the truth. Now she is distorting Kerry's remarks about a "global test". Please, please, don't allow people to get away with this smear of John Kerry. Your listeners who haven't been paying as close attention as some of us need the truth!

This is the email that I just sent Blitzer. Look at the website above and tell me if you think she was telling us the truth.

[skylarmae]

5. Its amazing how this woman can lie and deceive smilin' all the while

While growing up, my Dad's rule was, 'if you fuck up and admit it, there may be consequence; however if you fuck up and when confronted with the fuck up, you then lie and squirm and distort and lie some more, the consequences will surely be severe. NO LIES!!!

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS????? Hello, anyone out there?

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Such bullshit

Livermore Labs told them the tubes were not compatible with that usage...Scott Ritter talks about it in Uncovered: The Truth about the War in Iraq

[GaryL]

7. Broken record.

I'm amazed how she keeps repeating this bullshit over and over. This is truly Orwellian.

[Kierkegaard]

8. What an ignoramus.

Question for Condosleaza: name one country with the financial means that won't have a nuclear weapon, if we don't take action.

Queen of the meaningless statement.

[salin]

9. aka "Rice tries desperately to raise the likelihood

that indebted neocon businessmen will still hire her for BIG BUCKS after bush loses..."

[Malva Zebrina]

10. Rice is an example of a woman who has learned to talk the talk

She is as much a phoney as George and not much smarter--she thinks i seh make it sound good, it is the truth. She has learned the lingo--even if what she says is a lie or without substance. They all seem to be like that in Bush's White House and it will be their downfall.

She ought to leave and go teach Russion somewhere in some obscure junior college.. She has been useless as a Security Advisor.

[napi21]

11. Condi is trying to do a VERY DIFFICULT JOB!

Imagine how hard it is to cover shrub's behind! He screews up sooo often, she doesn't have any time to devote to national security. Hourly, Condi and all the other spinners around the WH, have to spend their whole day, every day, covering up, explaining what shrub meant to say, and trying to maintain the image the think people have of him.

Bet there were lots of late meetings Thrusday night and Friday trying to figure out how to cure the damage he did this time.

[leftchick]

14. that would be "A hard job"!

:)

[3113]

12. Condi: Saddam could have nuclear weapons by the end of the decade.

This morning on "This Week" Condi stated several times that Saddam could have nuclear weapons by the END OF THE DECADE.

What in the hell was the hurry? If that was the case, there was no reason to hurry to war, no reason not to have stayed focused on OBL in Afganistan when we had the moral support of the world behind us, and then go where ever the terrorist trail would lead us. Would giving the UN inspectors another six months or year, and taking more time to build a wider coalition have put us at any greater risk?

Oh yeah, I forgot--if they waited another day the Bush regime's case for invading Iraq would unravel if given time for their distortions, fabrications (lies), and hidden agendas to be exposed.

Edwards should quote Condi and ask Cheney, "What in the hell was your hurry, really? $$$$$$

[dennis4868]

21. "nuclear weapons by the end of the decade."

this is not what Bush and Cheney were telling us before the war...I remember Bush, in a press conference with Tony Blair before the war, said that Sdaam could have a nuclear weapon within 6 months.

BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED!

[bpilgrim]

13. there she goes again arguing for PREVENTIVE WAR - kerry needs to call them

on it.

by arguing that he 'would have' acquired the bomb sometime in the future, years even, is arguing for PREVENTIVE WAR which no nation had the right to since the 1930s when the axis powers claimed it.

since he didn't even have nukes, which could be argued as an imminent threat and therefore justify pre-emptive war, they are trying to argue for the former.

this should be the bright red mark kerry should be making to make clear his disagreement for this war, imo.

peace

[sr_pacifica]

15. Based on this logic, next stop N. Korea and Iran n/t

[sushi]

20. Yes, imagine that!

Not enough innocents, children, dead yet.

[arikara]

16. Q: How can you tell when Condi is lying?

A: Her lips are moving.

...I know, I know, its old...
;)

[llmart]

17. Ever notice......

that when Bush is in trouble he trots out Condi and Colon? As I've said before, Harry Belafonte was right. They are both Bush's house slaves. They must be regretting every day that they agreed to work for this idiot. Their reputations are completely ruined.

[Chelsea Patriot]

18. Exactly, they bring Prissy out of the kitchen to clean up after *

Just talking earlier today about how we haven't seen Rice in awhile.

Then when The Smirking Ass-wipe really fucks up in the parlor, they send their favorite housemaid out to mop up after the fool.

I doubt though if Prissy ever regrets working for her"husband".

[Kimber Scott]

19. It would serve Bush and his entire administration much better were they

to hide until election day. But, since I'm all for burying the bastards, I will happily tolerate watching them dig deeper into their own graves.

[mike_c]

22. Condi Rice is a pig....

A lying, scheming, porcine chumptres.

[number6]

23. kinda-sleeza

I vote lier ...eom

[no safe haven]

24. The tubes fiasco was a set up from the very beginning

Condi knew it, the WH and Pentagon gang knew it, and now the rest of the world knows it. Get a clue, Condi. You’re drowning in your own BS.

www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20031027_spinning_the_tubes/default.htm

Transcript:

www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/transcripts/s976015.htm

[despairing optimist]

25. How did this gal get to be provost of Stanford?

She has a Ph.D. and soared very high. She has a Chevron oil tanker christened in her name. And she reminds us of her childhood friends who died so horribly in that church bombing in Birmingham, and how "far" she's come.

Where did she go wrong? How did she become such a sellout?

If we can understand her story, we may have a clue as to what happened to this country over the past two generations, and I hope, how to fix it.

[are_we_united_yet]

26. Condi:

Give it up.