Condi's poplarity beginning to fade as GOP joins growing war criticism

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With Rumsfeld gone, Condi Rice has faced increased, and somewhat unfamiliar, criticism. At a Senate hearing on Jan. 11, she confronted a wall of opposition from Republicans as well as Democrats. During hearings this week on Iraq, several of her predecessors were pointed in their disapproval of her job performance.

Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III took issue with Ms. Rice’s refusal to engage Syria diplomatically. Back in his day, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “We practiced diplomacy full time, and it paid off.”

James A.Baker, Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine K. Albright, Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski — were diplomatic in their critiques of the administration’s foreign policy, all left the impression that as America’s top diplomat, Ms. Rice was not engaging in real diplomacy.

As the Bush administration’s overall foreign policy has come under fire, and other senior officials have left the administration, Rice is starting to take the heat previously reserved for Rumsfeld.

Kenneth M. Pollack, a research director at the Brookings Institution, said: “It is no longer the case that Rumsfeld is the administration bad guy. People will look much harder at Condi’s role now, and Iraq is really going to rest on her shoulders.”

In the past, most of the criticism has come from the left. But now the disapproval has spread, and Republicans are joining in. The starkest example came on Jan. 11, when Ms. Rice faced a room full of skeptics as she defended, before a Senate panel, President Bush’s new Iraq strategy. “You’re going to have to do a much better job” explaining the rationale for the war, Senator George V. Voinovich, Republican of Ohio, told her, adding that the administration could no longer count on his support.

“That’s what we hire a secretary of state for, not to sit there and proclaim categorical statements, but to engage in the process,” said Mr. Brzezinski.

Rice sometimes takes criticism personally. Last fall, she telephoned Sr. Bush, who employed her on his National Security Council in the early 1990s, after Bob Woodward’s book “State of Denial” reported that the elder Mr. Bush had said that she had been a “disappointment” and “not up to the job.”

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1. Ain't it the truth that somebody needs to tell her what her job description is!

"“That’s what we hire a secretary of state for, not to sit there and proclaim categorical statements, but to engage in the process,” said Mr. Brzezinski."

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2. I have gotten in trouble here more than once for my sense of humor

but

"Condi's poplarity beginning to fade as GOP joins growing war criticism"

just tickles me.

She has lied and lied and lied. She is like the secretary of your dreams. She will tell your wife you are in Chicago when you are in the Hoiday Inn with the girl from shipping.

Fuck Condi. She is a liar. And it is provable.

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4. She is and always was, an INCOMPETENT

The only thing she was good at was playing the enabling sycophant to the lil Shrub...

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3. Trump on Rice; "She travels around the world talking to people however,she never produces results!

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5. Guess What, Repugs. .. . . . . .