Audio: Condi's candid "very frank exchange" with Russian Foreign Minister

[Human Torch]

Video: Rice, Russian diplomat argue 'in private'

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday June 29, 2006

Audio of a closed lunch meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was accidentally broadcast revealing a disagreement about Iraq Security.

The audio broadcast reveals a difference of opinion between the two government regarding the protection of diplomats in Iraq. Throughout the audio broadcast, Secretary Rice and the Russian Foreign Minister argue and interrupt each other.

Responding to Lavrov's concerns about the protection of diplomats Secretary Rice says, “You know, on a fairly daily basis we lose soldiers and I think it would be offensive to suggest that these efforts are not being made. … We are making those efforts and we are making them at quite a sacrifice. ... The problem isn’t diplomatic missions. The problem is journalists and civilian contractors and, yes, diplomats as well.

“The problem is you have a terrorist insurgent population that is wreaking havoc on a hapless Iraqi civilian population that is trying to fight back and on a coalition force that is trying to fight back and the implication that by somehow declaring that diplomats need to be protected it will get better I think is simply not right.” In contrast, both officials agree on the point during their public statements.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_Rice_Russian_diplomat_argue_in_0629.html

[Roland99]

1. Here's the YouTube link (Vote it up!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srGAuxg4fU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erawstory%2Ecom%2Fnews%2F2006%2FVideo%5FRice%5FRussian%5Fdiplomat%5Fargue%5Fin%5F0629%2Ehtml

[Olney Blue]

3. Condi sounds very worried about the state of security in Iraq.

This is a telling conversation.

[MADem]

5. The stress in her voice is detectable NT

[Roland99]

6. She always sounds like a 12 year-old going up on stage or something

Her voice is always cracking and nervous-sounding. Guess it comes with being a pathological LIAR!

[MADem]

7. I always think of some junior high kid with a LOUSY science project!!NT

[Olney Blue]

8. Maybe she didn't get the memo- things are going great in Iraq!

(the pretzeldent took a four-hour vacation there and proved it)

[MadMaddie]

2. So if I understand Condi....we want other countries to

sacrifice their soldiers...and put their diplomats in harms way and we will not protect them sufficiently....hmmmm...how many coalition of the willing are left....

[bleever]

4. Glad Condi is able to be as condescending to diplomats as she is

to the people she works for: us.

Also: foreign policy super-genius Condi Rice has no trouble understanding man with Russian accent!


:woohoo:

[stevedeshazer]

9. Now, wait just a minute here!! I thought Condi was fluent in Russian

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/20/125023/077

[lala_rawraw]

12. yep... just as i said too... this makes no sense

[Mr_Spock]

10. What's that sycophant Condi doing now to ruin our foreign relations?

God, do I hate Condi as much as anyone in this childish administration.

[lala_rawraw]

11. Um, she speaks fluent Russian, why is she speaking in English?

[ContraBass Black]

13. They were both speaking English.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. her first visit to Russia was a fiasco. The Russians believed the hype

that she spoke fluently. In fact, they were forced to cancel a special TV program in which she was going to be invited to talk to the Russian people directly. They scrambled to find a translator (with proper security ratings). (A friend of mine was with the delagation flying there as a translator)

It was a complete screw up.

Her skill with Russian is on par with my Attic Greek. But, like everything else, she is a concoction, a put up job, a faux empty, talentless person groomed by big oil to represent their interests in the future.