Not only has the Bush administration rejected the recommendation of the Iraq Study Group to negotiate with Iran, it rejected a dialogue offer from Iran in 2003, when the United States was in a much stronger negotiating position.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried to play dumb about the 2003 offer at a House hearing Wednesday, suggesting that it never happened. But former State Department and White House officials have acknowledged receiving the Iranian offer to discuss nuclear safeguards, action against terrorists, coordination in Iraq, ending "material support" for Palestinian militias and accepting a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Washington Post reported. And Rice seemed the refer to the offer during an interview last June, saying that "what the Iranians wanted earlier was to be one-on-one with the United States so that this could be about the United States and Iran."
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Are you surprised? This administration has been opposed to any sort of negotiations with any country in the middle east. Bush only wants to dictate terms of surrender and they won’t surrender.
Gee Ben, but at least she isnt flip flopping.
She was AGAINST diplomacy before she was AGAINST diplomacy…
Nice position for the Secretary of State, the nation’s supposedly chief diplomat.
I think she is, instead, the assistant secretary for the ministry of lies.
Or the assistant secretary FOR war.
In any event, she is a cold war expert in the new world of fighting global terrorists. Nicely and conveniently outdated.
“We dont need no stinkin’ diplomacy”.
Phillip Brownlee,
“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried to play dumb about the 2003 offer at a House hearing Wednesday, suggesting that it never happened.”
Maybe she wasn’t “playing” dumb?It’s like her claim that NO one had ever thought of using an airplane as a weapon…?
Sheesh look at her!
I think you’re right kfg. And I think the evil callousness of her duties is starting to show in her appearance!
Heh heh Click the pic. I’ll wait.
“The President likes when I do this with my fingers.”
She is a miserable failure.
This is nothing new from Condi Rice. She has been and will always be a puppet for George W. Bush. Why even bother bringing her in to testify – just send a videotape in saying whatever Georgie says.
I’d give a lot to be privy to what Colin Powell’s inner thoughts about this are!!
I guess the moral is: “Integrity is as integrity does”.
Yeah JR. Her “pissed off chihuahua look” is well known.
I guess that is what happens when you studied all your life for something that no longer exists, and then you have to gear up for a whole new world.
Methinks she just wasnt up to the task…
And what the hell would be so bad about one on one talks?Sounds like a good idea, cut through all the bullshit and get right to the bottom line.
KFG,
You’re right on with both posts. I couldn’t have said it better myself, on all counts. Kudos!
There’s no money in peace. Just ask Halliburton.
Condi lies, soldiers die.
Telling that none of the blog’s Wingnuts have come to Rice’s aid. Where’s Hank Price to defend “Vice-President Rice” when she needs him?
Condi’s the moron who tried to make out that anyone who said the people in the mid-east weren’t ready for democracy “used to say the same thing about blacks, in this country”. Was she ever wrong, again.
Condi should have resigned over her ignorant stand against the CIA prior to 911. Only in political America can a politician be told that Al Queda was going to fly planes into buildings – and she did nothing about it. She failed. She should have been gone on 912. That 7 minutes of total dipshitmania that occured when the Commander in Chief sat silent after being told our country was under attack. That was the first message, Condi’s was the second – we as a country were in the hands of losers. I cannot believe, I mean I absolutely cannot believe GWB, with his National Guard training, his gigantic ego, and his thrill in being chief, would sit for 7 minutes as Americans died. I have a psychological theory on this – it’s just like a high school class room – the teacher asks for volunteers to move something or clean something. Those who don’t want to do it will have that goofy look on our faces and will try not to make eye contact until we hear that someone else has volunteered.GWB knew that ’someone’ was in Charge of making a decision so he waited it out. The VP was making the decision to shoot down planes, etc. Where was Bush? He was acting just as he always has…in charge, at large, and completely incapable of really truly leading. This is why he is incapable of speaking extemporaneously to reporters. This is why he went through with pushing for a constitional amendment defining marriage. It is because he is a pawn for hollowness and today, we feel hollow about our washington leaders.Why didn’t Bush fire Condi? She black and female. So, he played to the voters rather than leading.I hate the dumb sonofabitch.
And to think that one of the biggest influences in Condi’s life was Madeline Albright’s father. He’d turn over in his grave if he could see her now.Surely she must think GW is a moron, she’s not that dumb. What is her agenda? To secure her position and political power at all costs?
I would say she has already secured her position in life, either flat on her back or on her knees.
I would say she has already secured her position in life, either flat on her back or on her knees.
The very least she hooked her wagon to the wrong horse! I have to admit that I have often wondered how she has managed to escape being covered in the mud that has came down on this administration. She has been there from the beginning and was instrumental in most of all the “Special intelligence groups” that combed through intel to find the dubious intelligence that was used to justify the invasion.
I must say Grayfox that was a very rude and crude post about Rice.
Jeez, JM, is that any different than what you have said about Bill or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi or anyone else, for that matter?
Republican hypocrisy – alive and well.
Whether we like it or not it looks like we are going to have to accept Iran as a regional power in the Middle East. Saddam was always a counter balance to Iran and we removed him. Really if anybody “wins” in Iraq, it will be Iran!
Really WSClark?
I haven’t posted here in a long time. Pelosi wasn’t even Speaker of the House since the last time I posted in a political thread.
Show me a post where I said Hillary Clinton or Pelosi should do such things.
Still making things up I see WSClark.
Condi is a miserable failure. Refute that if you can, koolaide drinkers.
She is the national security advisor, and she has no idea there might be a threat from Al Qaeda on 09-10-01??? If she wasn’t George and Laura’s friend she would have been fired as opposed to promoted for her incompetence.
The president of Stanford University??? I would not send my dog to Stanford given the performance (or lack, thereof) of Condi.
J R, you’re wrong.
Condi is estimating the size of her “husband’s” business assests.
She and Laura have laughed about this many times, I am sure.
You’re not going to meltdown again, are you, JM?
Should we notify the State Police there in Mississippi? You aren’t going to go all McVeigh down there are you?
For Christ sake, JM, you only left the blog about a week ago. It’s not like you have been gone for ten or twelve days!
We have not forgotten your rants and explosions. It’s not like it was LAST year or anything!!!
Meltdown?
I remember everyone on the blog trying to get you WSClark to calm down and not meltdown.
Are you going to meltdown again soon? You melted down in several threads for at least a week.
And you still do. How could anyone ever forget the famous WSClark meltdowns. They went nuclear.
Don’t worry folks, JM is leaving town soon.
At least that’s what he keeps saying.
But has anyone else noticed that what JM says and what he does are often two very different things?
For instance, sometimes he’s black.
Condi is part of George W.’s bungle squad. In Feb of 2001, she and Powell gave a press conference in which they assured reporters that Saddam was “in a box” and “posed no threat.”
C’mon, let the predictable reich-wing “she did NOT say that (because I didn’t hear it on Rush)” begin so I can humilate you once again by quoting chapter and verse.
In the picture, Condi is saying, “This is the chance of a democrat being President in ‘08″.
No, no, Fleetwood.
She’s saying the president’s you-know-what is even smaller than this . . .