So Condi Rice is a Bush family confidant. She was rewarded for her efforts by being named Bush's National Security Adviser during his first term in office. Dr. Condoleezza Rice was at George W. Bush's side when he made the decision to invade Iraq and issued the order on March 20, 2003. The failed war in Iraq is as much on Condi Rice's hands as it is on Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. She acquiesced in that disasterous decision. She was by Bush's side when he lied about WMD in Iraq. She was his national security adviser. She was as responsible for bad intelligence as former CIA director George Tenet.
Condi Rice continued to be rewarded for her faithful service to the Bush Crime Family. The Bush-Cheney regime loved to point to her and Colin Powell as examples of "diversity" on the Bush-Cheney team. The fact that she is black and a woman helped her win Senate confirmation as Secretary of State. Oh yes, she does have a Phd in political science and is supposedly a Russian expert, but her tenure as our chief diplomat has been about as "successful" as George H.W. Bush's oldest son has been as the 43rd President of the United States.
Condi can't stand up to George W. Bush. The extant question is whether Robert Gates or some senior military officers will man-up to Junior and tell him "No" to more war? Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a failure as Secretary of State.
Rice still struggling for success after two years as top US diplomat
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by David Millikin
AFP Thu Dec 28, 7:41 PM ET
Condoleezza Rice wraps up her first two years as secretary of state with few diplomatic successes to show for her efforts and fewer signs she plans to change course to improve the record.
And yet, as Rice heads into 2007, the 52-year-old former academic should be at the top of her game for the last two years of President George W. Bush's administration.
She has seen off her longtime rival for Bush's ear, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
And the Bush administration is under pressure from all sides to use more diplomacy and less bluster in its foreign policy, a shift which should place Rice at the epicenter of decision-making.
But since she took over as America's top diplomat on January 26, 2005 with an agenda to promote freedom and democracy around the globe, Rice has been shadowed by the failure of that plan on its biggest stage: Iraq.
The violence in Iraq, and the Bush administration's refusal to bring rivals Syria and Iran into efforts to stabilize the country, are widely blamed for the broader failure of US policy in the Middle East -- where Lebanon teeters on the brink of civil war and Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts languish.
Elsewhere, Rice's globe-trotting -- 37 overseas trips totalling nearly 500,000 miles (800,000 kilometers) -- has yielded little concrete success, with her few diplomatic victories clouded by poor or no follow-up.
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