Pitt. Post Gazette: Rice ... reveals Bush Disconnect

[Tesibria]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04297/400267.stm

Editorial: Rice's visit / The security adviser's talk reveals a disconnect


President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, spoke in Pittsburgh Thursday as part of a series of campaign speeches she is making in seven closely contested states. There was no reason to expect otherwise, but she did not deviate from the misleading contentions on U.S. foreign policy that the Bush-Cheney ticket put forth in the four recent debates.
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Ms. Rice said the country is in "a time of war." She claimed, with no evidence, that the United States has killed 75 percent of al-Qaida's personnel, that al-Qaida's sanctuary in Afghanistan had ended and that that nation, despite its precarious state and the presence of 20,000 U.S. troops, was under the control of a "free Afghan government."

She maintained that the Bush administration was successfully stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction -- citing the case of Libya, now open to U.S. oil companies' investment -- but left open the much more problematic cases of WMD in North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and Israel. She used Mr. Bush's debate line about freedom being on the march in the Middle East, with a passing reference to the administration's pallid position on a possible Palestinian state.
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Asked if the administration had previously anticipated the war's cost in dollars and in American and Iraqi lives, Ms. Rice sought to make again the nonexistent link between 9/11 and the Iraq war. She said the circumstances in the Middle East that had produced the 9/11 attack were still there and that the United States is thus obliged to endure the sacrifice of lives and money involved in the war.

Pittsburghers appreciate Ms. Rice's coming here, even this late in the game. What was disappointing was that her presentation was so partisan and out of touch with the reality of the world. If she actually believes what she said Thursday, it is frightening to think she is the president's chief national security adviser.

[flowomo]

1. whoa! that's beautiful... and right here in my "battleground" state!

[rhino47]

2. Hard to believe it was in the Post Gaz though nt

[flowomo]

4. But the owner of Block Communications.owner of the P-G..gives to Dems.....

is the paper right wing?

[Cha]

3. Bill Maher was Skewering condi damn rice

tonight on Real Time!

He said.. she was "on the campaign trail and ..oh I don't know ..there maybe some terrorist attacks before the election..isn't this her BUSY SEASON?"

Jamie Rubin said she didn't do a very good job before 9/11.

[Miss Authoritiva]

5. Okay. It's time.

No more "disconnect." Let's call it what it is: Delusional.