A maiming of the soul (about Rice)

[donsu]

http://jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20051210t150000-0500_94315_obs_a_maiming_of_the_soul_.asp


It is hard to feel sorry for a woman who has a supertanker named after her, a woman whose IQ is probably nearly twice as high as most of the men she works with, a woman who if she wanted to change jobs would probably be offered three or four times what she is paid as the second most important official in the US Government.

It is really hard to be sorry for Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state. Last week I felt sorry for her. I was looking at a photograph of Dr Rice and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, taken by the AP's Markus Schreiber at a media briefing in Berlin on Tuesday.
Dr Rice had a hunted look; the face of one cornered, surrounded by enemies, with no place to hide, no way to turn. Frau Merkel just looks terribly sad.

-snip-

"Mr Donald Rumsfeld, that macho symbol of American resolve, says he does not greatly care how the men are treated, although, as their official captor, he is accountable under the rules of war. And the attorney-general of the United States, Mr Ashcroft, the principal lawman for the United States of America, says he doesn't think that the men 'deserve basic constitutional protection'. They are, according to him, 'war criminals'.

". In the words of General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these most dangerous 'folks' are ready, to chew their way through the hydraulic lines of a C-17 plane, to bring it down. And no doubt, they are capable of levitation, of causing ball lightning and turning people to stone with their basilisk's eyes."

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the world knows

[stepnw1f]

1. Yeah But, Look What She Has Done

I can't feel sorry for her.

[Skidmore]

2. Integrity would demand that she say no to being a mouthpiece

for insanity and greed. I see no integrity. If she is suffering, it is because it has been her choice.

[savemefromdumbya]

3. She should have been fired for 9/11 attacks

along with Rumsfeld, Myers and the rest of them. They will never be forgiven.

[butterfly77]

6. i agree I hope it happens again for her and bush..

AND THEY ARE PUT IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY CAN'T CONTROL

[waiting for hope]

4. Neither can I

she has been this administration's puppet for so long - if there ever was an ethics problem, the bigger person would have resigned and moved on to greener personal pastures.

[donsu]

5. the writer of the article doesn't really feel sorry for her either

read the whole thing

"It is clear that Dr Rice's torture explanations have satisfied no one. The European foreign ministers, having embarrassed the US to the point where Dr Rice apparently promised no more torture, no more renditions, chalked up a victory."

and

"The German Chancellor, Frau Merkel, brought the case to the attention
of Dr Rice on Tuesday. According to Merkel, "The US government has, of course, accepted the case as a mistake".
Who told her to say that?

Dr Rice's spokesmen denied that the secretary had accepted al-Masri's case as a mistake; Dr Rice had said only that "Any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens we will do everything to rectify it".

That's odd, because Mr al-Masri was denied entry to the US last weekend when he arrived in Atlanta. If the US is serious about correcting mistakes, that was not a promising start. But perhaps it was all due to an error in interpretation - except that Frau Merkel speaks excellent English."

[billybob537]

7. What a thorough trashing

of what might have been a bright future, for her and America.Instead she as the "African American Woman" to reach this high position, is an embarassment to, her Race, her gender, and her country. What a pitiful soul.

[cap]

8. condi doesnt care...

she already has had Chevron helicopters fire on protesters in Niger. She just doesnt care

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

9. Someone I know predicts she will at some point have a "break down."

Having realized what she has done and allowed to happen.

I can't stand Rice, and always am aware of taut, inflexible body language, while her mouth runs in overdrive.

She also doesn't strike me as a human being comfortable within herself.

May her end of power come soon, thus the end of the abuses she encourages and/or allows.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Yes, the truth hurts but not as bad as torture. n/t