Reply #10: The other day Condi likened the Iraqis "fight for freedom" with civil

[robbedvoter]

rights - they should be moving to other absurd methaphors by now, non?

ational security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq's halting steps toward self-government to
black Americans' struggle for civil rights, imploring black journalists Thursday to reject
arguments that some people are incapable of democracy. (snip)
"We should not let our voice waver in speaking out on the side of people who are seeking
freedom," Rice said. "And we must never, ever indulge in the condescending voices who allege
that some people in Africa or in the Middle East are just not interested in freedom, they're
culturally just not ready for freedom or they just aren't ready for freedom's responsibilities."
Rice said White House officials often turn to her on issues of race, and she infused her
discussion of Iraq with references to slavery and America's civil rights battles of the 1960s.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030807/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rice