From the Irony Dept.: Rice Questions Iran Government Openness - AP

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Rice Questions Iran Government Openness

Wednesday December 5, 2007 1:01 PM

By MATTHEW LEE

Associated Press Writer

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, working to defend U.S. strategy
on Iran, questioned the openness of the Iranian
government on Wednesday after its president said
a new U.S. intelligence review concluding his
country has stopped developing nuclear weapons
amounts to “a final shot” against Tehran's
critics.

Rice declined to respond to Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark, but told reporters
in the Ethiopian capital that the public release
of the National Intelligence Estimate showed the
Bush administration was committed to transparent
democracy, while Iran was not.

“I am not going to comment on that comment
except to say that what the National Intelligence
Estimate shows, and the transparency with which
the administration released it, is what it means to
live in a democracy and I hope one day that the
people of Iran will live in a democracy too,” she
said.

Earlier Wednesday, Ahmadinejad said the conclusions
of the report, which said that Iran's nuclear weapons
development program has been halted because of
international pressure, amounted to “a declaration of
victory for the Iranian nation against the world powers
over the nuclear issue.”

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[kurth]

1. What a shameless, soulless whore

[Vickers]

2. lol! It's also funny when this MISadministration complains about

"religious extremists." :crazy:

[hobbit709]

3. None of the bush cabal would know irony if it bit them on the ass.

[provis99]

4. does she get stoned before she tells these whoppers?

[hobbit709]

5. She's way too much of a control freak to get stoned

[ladjf]

6. "Government Openness" - What a novel concept!

Thanks for the insight Ms. Rice. You continue to enlighten us with your profound nuggets of political astuteness.