Exclusive: Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir

[kpete]

Source: Reuters


Tue, Aug 30 2011
Exclusive: Condoleezza Rice fires back at Cheney memoir

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Rice, in a telephone interview, also disputed a passage in Cheney's memoir, "In My Time," in which he says the secretary of state "tearfully admitted" that the Bush administration should not have apologized for a claim in Bush's 2003 State of the Union address on Iraq's supposed search for uranium for nuclear arms.

Cheney, who opposed a public apology for the unfounded claim, wrote that Rice "came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right."

"It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?" Rice said in the interview. "I would never -- I don't remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him."

"I did say to him that he had been right about the press reaction" to the administration's acknowledgment that the remarks about Iraq seeking uranium in Africa should not have been in Bush's speech, Rice said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-usa-rice-c...

[bluestateguy]

1. Only Dick Cheney could make Condi Rice sound reasonable

and only Dick Cheney could make Colin Powell sound like a statesman.

[JBoy]

2. Cheney's confusing Condi with the guy he shot in the face.

Birdshot in the cheek can make your eyes water.

[Brother Buzz]

17. DUzy material

[laconicsax]

3. I seem to remember Condi crying in a Senate hearing.

To the tune of, "please don't question my integrity" or something similar when she was asked why she gave contradictory stories to different news agencies within hours of each other.

Edit: It was "impugn my integrity" to Barbara Boxer during her confirmation hearing: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/200...

[KG]

4. geez, which of these lying liars to believe?

[Angry Dragon]

5. bush and cheney have given you your answer

TORTURE

both have said the only true way to know is by torture and water-boarding

I would like to for some interviewer to have a water-boarding
scene set up and see how either reacted

[Lasher]

29. Yeah, waterboard them both!

Lord Vader insists it's no big deal so I'm sure he wouldn't object.

[No Elephants]

13. I was thinking the same thing. When two Republicans contradict each other, how the hell do you know

which one is lying? The question hurt my hair follicles.

I know! They're both lying.

Now, we just have to figure out which is lying about what.

On being questioned during an interview, Cheney made it clear that "tearfully" did not mean she was crying. Maybe they are both fudging around that issue.

[marions ghost]

24. right

good point

and the meaning of "tearfully" is....

[dflprincess]

30. I think Cheney is lying about what Condi says he was right about

I'm thinking she had a bit too much to drink and then sat down with Cheney and got all sloppy-drunk weepy about George-Boy and told Cheney he was right when he said Junior would never leave Laura for her.

[cascadiance]

6. Maybe she should threaten to sick Kaddafy on him!

... if our justice system is to weak to do what it should be doing... He doesn't have too much to lose any more.

[No Elephants]

14. I think Gaddafi might have other priorities right now.

(Which, coincidentally, is about what Cheney said when asked about his 5 draft deferments: "I had other priorities then.")

[Yon_Yonson]

7. This does not look like a tearfull Condi Rice

[Alameda]

15. Ha ha ha....I don't think she's that "perky"

[sabrina 1]

8. And he's not even grateful to her for lying so willingly for him.

'Mushroom clouds' 'Who would have thought' etc. etc. I hope she's learned that a killer and a torturer like Cheney can never be totally appeased. You cannot ever cross them even in the smallest way.

Both of them liars, and it's fun watching what we used to be told was a totally united 'team' go at each other, so it's hard to know who is lying this time, not that it matters.

[closeupready]

42. Yup. "Mushroom clouds" - "It's all been worth it" at Xmas time - "who could have predicted?"

Laughing at Code Pink's demonstration, deliberately giving bureaucratic doublespeak nonsense in response to question posed during her testimony before Congress in order to run out the clock.

[onehandle]

9. They're both manipulative liars. nt

[tanyev]

10. Cheney needs to stop watching all those Mary Tyler Moore reruns.

[Maccagirl]

11. Oh Mr. Cheneee!

n/t

[gratuitous]

12. Who the eff cares? Let 'em sort it out in Thunderdome

Two enter, one leaves.

(Note: Not intended as a criticism of the peerless kpete or the story, but as a measure of my disgust with this bunch of criminals who were allowed to get away with their crimes in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and by escaping prosecution again will return in the 2020s to fuck over our country again.)

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Got popcorn?

Get munching.

[Supersedeas]

18. actually it does sound like her...as she sounds like she is crying/whining in the media response

[Joe Bacon]

19. yawn...

Wake me when somebody actually says something that resembles the truth!

[Solly Mack]

20. Blah, blah, blah goes yet another war criminal

[SoapBox]

21. You took the Blah, Blah, Blah right out of my mouth.

The WHOLE BushCo. should be in orange jumpsuits, shackles and hauled off to Gitmo, Miss Thing included.

[Marie Marie]

25. His whole book is nothing but a bunch of Blah Blah Blah

I think that pulse machine that's keeping him alive is not sending enough blood and oxygen to his brain.

[treestar]

22. Of course Cheney is sexist to boot

He wouldn't say any male said anything "tearfully." He's just trying to imply that women will cry even as Sec. of State.

[ScottLand]

23. Maybe they can someday share a jail cell and iron out

their differences - or waterboard them out of each other.

[drdtroit]

26. Why are these two psychopathic sociopaths still walking around freely???

[daleo]

27. They should be arguing about this in prison. n/t

[mvd]

28. Exactly

Looks like Darth Cheney opened a different can of worms than he expected.

[closeupready]

31. Report: Condi rejects Cheney’s ‘attack on my integrity’

Source: ABC News

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is hitting back at former Vice President Dick Cheney, who in his new book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” reportedly accused her of being naïve during nuclear negotiations with North Korea and of misleading her superiors about the talks.

“I kept the president fully and completely informed about every in and out of the negotiations with the North Koreans,” Rice told Reuters today in her first comments on the matter.

“You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president. You know, I don’t appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies,” the former top American diplomat added in the interview.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/08/report-co... /

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"attack on my integrity" -

[Frances]

32. Has any vice president in US history

ever so overtly claimed the kind of power Cheney claimed?

It would seem to me that Cheney is overstepping the bounds of his legal power by presuming to speak for the President.

Or am I wrong?

[Frances]

33. Is Cheney deliberately setting up a scenario

where he is claiming he was the President in all but name?

[KarenS]

34. I despise Condi ~ but I'm happy that she's speaking out. n/t

[closeupready]

35. Agree on all points.

nt

[kenny blankenship]

36. No worries. You can't lay a glove

on what was never there.

[Roland99]

37. "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

Integrity...

Sorry, but she deserves to be called the "c" word.

Esp. after lying to the 9/11 Commission. Flat-out lying!

And her little toadie, Hadley...what a fucking slimebag!

[boycottfaux]

38. DITTO

She carried RW water every day for the Bushies and repeated
every scripted RW TP expertly.  Personally, I think she
deserves an Academy Award for her performances . .

Rice, the "weeper" . . 

Soooo much for your loyalty, eh Condi . .

[Botany]

39. What an awful attack on Condi!

She never had any integrity.

As noted up thread:







"I believe that is was titled bin Laden wants to attack the United States."

[hunter]

40. The real fireworks begin when their Dark Lord is gone.

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[goforit]

41. Tit for tat!

Satan's dominions.

Pathetic pathological liars.