Iraq Invasion Proponent Condoleezza Rice To Testify At Senate Confirmation

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Iraq Invasion Proponent Condoleezza Rice To Testify At Senate Confirmation Hearing

AMY GOODMAN: And her relationship with the Bush team, with Cheney, with Rumsfeld, with Wolfowitz.

LAURA FLANDERS: Well, that's another interesting point. Sey Hersh was talking about how important Rumsfeld and Cheney are in this administration. She has been working with them since the first Bush administration. And as I write in my book, she entered this administration to rejoin Dick Cheney, after the first Bush service where she and Dick Cheney were on opposing sides of what to do about the Soviet Union. He supported regime change. He supported the breakup of the Soviet Union. She supported much longer than he did maintaining relations with Gorbachev, maintaining the Soviet Union as a single entity. In the eyes of the neo-cons -- Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz -- she was wrong, he was right. She came in to the first Bush administration with that history, which in my mind -- I don't know the inner workings of the administration -- she must have come in wounded and weak. And they know every time they talk about how brilliant she is, they know that she knows that they know that she was wrong in 1989, in 1990. She left the first Bush administration under a cloud, so who has power in that negotiation between Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice? I don't think it's Rice.

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