NY Times: "Europeans Welcome Rice's Reassurances on Torture" WHY???

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My comment: We just HAVE to be living in the Era of The Absurd Headline, which means we're living in an absurd time in history. See the Europeans believe a known liar, even though they follow our politics rather closely I thought.

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"By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: December 8, 2005
BRUSSELS, Dec. 8 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears during her current visit to have reassured many European leaders who were concerned about the treatment of terrorism suspects held in secret, foreign jails. But the issue nonetheless became the focus of her participation in a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

At a dinner on Wednesday for 32 foreign ministers and NATO representatives here, Ms. Rice said later, she had decided to bring up the detainee issue first, since it was on everyone's mind, and "I thought it was important that we have ample time to discuss and reassure and have a really extensive discussion of that issue."

The conversation took more than an hour, and the ministers had many questions. But at one point Foreign Minister Phillipe Douste-Blazy of France spoke up. France has not been the Bush administration's most reliable supporter in the last few years. Still, Mr. Douste-Blazy said, he told the others, "Allow me to recall here, the United States, they are our friends and our allies."

Other ministers offered only heavily veiled criticisms leavened with praise for Ms. Rice, in public and in private, American and foreign officials said..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/international/europe/08cnd-rice.html