posted December 29, 2006 07:56 AM EST
It is my understanding that Dr. Condoleezza Rice was brought on board the Bush team to serve as Junior's tutor when it was decided he would run for President after his smarter brother Jeb lost an election in Florida. George W. Bush needed a tutor because he didn't know shit about foreign affairs or geography. Bush didn't know Kazakhstan from Kyrgyzstan or Shiite from Sunni. It is important that the most powerful man in the world know these things.
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
quote:posted January 03, 2007 09:35 PM EST:
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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Well, well, well. One can only surmise that old hand John Negroponte is being brought in to bail out Dr. Condoleezza Rice who is clearly in over her head at State almost as much as her pupil George W. is as Unitary Executive. Maybe Rice will resign or be forced out to make way for the "professional" diplomat, Dr. Death Squad himself, John Negroponte. As they say in the biz, stay tuned for further developments.
U.S. intelligence chief to switch jobs
quote:
POSTED: 0156 GMT (0956 HKT), January 3, 2007
STORY HEADLINES:
• NEW: NBC reports Navy Adm. Mike McConnell to succeed John Negroponte
• Negroponte to replace Robert Zoellick as deputy secretary of state, source says
• Negroponte oversees nation's 16 spy agencies
• He's a career diplomat; will be Rice's No. 2
WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Intelligence Director John Negroponte will resign to become deputy secretary of state, a government official said Wednesday night.
Negroponte took over in 2005 as the nation's first intelligence chief, responsible for overseeing all 16 U.S. spy agencies.
Congress established the post in late 2004 following a recommendation of the 9/11 commission, which reviewed intelligence miscues leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Yet, it has been at times a struggle for Negroponte and his staff to bring all 16 spy agencies together under one umbrella.
He will return to his roots as a career diplomat to become the No. 2 to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the government official said.
The official said the timing of Negroponte's departure was uncertain but that it was expected soon. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because there has been no announcement of the move.
Negroponte, 67, played a key role before the war in Iraq as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He then became ambassador to Baghdad before being named intelligence chief.
Now he is stepping down as President Bush develops a new strategy on Iraq.
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