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Welcome to David Sirota's personal blog. Along with being a daily guest on the O'Franken Factor, I am one of the writers of The Progress Report and write a monthly column. I have set up this blog to chart some of the hypocrisy and lies in American politics. Feel free to email me at [email protected] with any thoughts/criticism. Note: this blog represents my personal views, and not the views of the Center for American Progress.

Condi Rice Needs a Geography Lesson

From today's Progress Report...

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told CBS' Face the Nation she had no details about the President's alleged decision to secretly divert $700 million from Afghanistan operations to Iraq war planning without approval from Congress. However, she did say circumventing Congress was acceptable because Afghanistan and Iraq are "within the entire region." While she might have been referring to official military regions, her answer was deliberately evasive. The fact is, Asia and the Mideast are separate geographic regions - more than 1400 miles separate Kabul and Baghdad, which means by Rice's logic, Austin, Texas is in the same region as Nicaragua. In fact, the U.S. State Department has two separate bureaus and two separate Assistant Secretaries of State to deal with Iraq and Afghanistan. Her answer also ignores the fact that fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan (as approved by Congress) had nothing to do with invading Iraq.


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