NYT: Rice Considers Iraq A "Stain" On Her Legacy

New York Times   |  HELENE COOPER   |   September 1, 2007 09:24 AM


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Within hours, the letters to the editor started coming in. "Condoleezza Rice serves an administration that has trashed the basic values of academia: reason, science, expertise, and honesty. Stanford should not welcome her back," wrote Don Ornstein, identified by the newspaper as an emeritus professor of mathematics in a letter published May 31.

Online comments on the newspaper's Web site were even harsher, a veritable stream of vitriol. One of the milder posts came from Jon Wu, who did not give an affiliation: "Please go away, Rice. We don't want someone who is responsible for the slaughter of an entire nation teaching at our school."

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Let's bury once and for all the absurd notion that "Dr." Rice is some sort of outstanding academic with a "brilliant mind," whatever her mammoth failings as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State:

1. This alleged "Soviet expert" was caught totally by surprise when the Soviet Union fell.

2. Provost at Stanford? Big friggin' deal. The Provost is a glorified paper clip counter whose chief job is handing out decals for student parking, along with other mundane duties. A janitor could fill the job just as well as she did, and probably better.

3. She revealed herself as a complete moron when she said after 9/11 that "no one" could anticipate that terrorists would use hijacked planes as weapons.

4. She is completely incapable of extemporaneous speech or anything approaching original thought. Everything out of her stupid gap toothed mouth is stale propaganda and discredited dogma, robotically delivered as if she stayed up all night memorizing it.

In short, this pathologically narcissistic shoe whore is a fucking imbecile, period. And if I read one more N.Y. Times puff piece lauding her proficiency at tickling the ivories, I'm gonna puke. As a way of "humanizing" this butcher, it's about on par with saying Hitler loved his dog.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:46 PM on 09/02/2007

Rice owes it all to affirmative action. Without affirmative action, she'd be working for the DMV.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 AM on 09/02/2007
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Thee are lawyers with sympathetic 'free cases' on thier belts regarding civil rights and segregation ,immigration etc. But the Constitutional Lawyers just never spoke even after the 1773 Constitution was written.

Now which side in Burma are they selling USA because The Military Hegemony is left with one point'before he announces ddemocratisation and hands over power to an elected A New Constitution ' and someone again has to remind him the world has one constitution and his is no Intellectually or
monetarily a different class or throne that public need a wriiten constitution for integrity and unity sake . Written Constitutions are a bland society-ism and a hard core socialism divides the rulers everytime more from publics....So whats the use of such vote ballot ,while already the supression has created Acheh Rebels at border which could headache both...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:00 AM on 09/02/2007
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The Consitutional Lawyers are biggest villians of Modren Age and disregard have no defense or escuse to count the actions into 'making of a Jewish Ideological state ' or 'Secular Socialist values!
They just dont have the word '
Republic' in their dictionary!
Secretary Rice is busy and theres no reason to accept their disrespect!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:50 AM on 09/02/2007
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And the Bush administration is a shit stain on America's legacy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:46 AM on 09/02/2007

Iraq isn't a stain on Condi Rice's legacy. Iraq is her legacy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:39 AM on 09/02/2007
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Dear Ms. Rice,

You have no one to blame but yourself. For an erudite individual, such as yourself, to endulge in such a glaring lapse in judgment, is a manifestation of a serious character flaw, to say the very least.

In other words, you shit in your messkit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:39 AM on 09/02/2007
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To me, 9/11 is the big stain, because she was the National Security adviser and ignored warnings about terrorism. Iraq is probably more the doing of Rumsfeld and Cheney.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:33 AM on 09/02/2007
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In an episode of "30 Rock" the Alec Baldwin character was supposedly dating Condi.

Because of her travels Alec could only talk to her by cell phone.

Tina Fay asked how Condi could get cell reception with her head so far up Bush's ass.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:23 AM on 09/02/2007
- bar1ed I'm a Fan of bar1ed 3 fans permalink

i really dont know what to say, that has'nt already been said. i'm at the limit of my fustrations with this admin. its just plain sad. she'll write books, the talking heads will have her on tv and radio. she'll get work at the heritage foud., and on and on. but the humans beings whose life she destoryed will have nothing to say. there'll be alot of rolling around in graves for some time to come. may they rest in peace !!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:12 AM on 09/02/2007
- wcfar I'm a Fan of wcfar 5 fans permalink

This woman knew who her boss would be. She's a Bush "loyalist" for Christ's sake. She would kiss Bush's ass and bark at the moon if he wanted her to do so. What is all this legacy crap? There are people who get up every day and do the work of this country they are the people who have a legacy of hard work and dedication. This woman was a front for the Bush hardline. Being in the lead statesperson's job meant she had plenty of time to do her nails and go shopping. Her "job" had nothing to do with diplomacy 'cause as we all know Bush doesn't give a shit about diplomacy. I have no doubt this rock solid member of the Bush Gestapo will find a rock to crawl back under when she leaves her "glorius" record behind her. But a legacy...no. She, like all the Bushites has the blood of thousands on her hands.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:44 AM on 09/02/2007
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Rice is a stain on the United States of America.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:27 AM on 09/02/2007

Rice will be tried at the Hague for war crimes. She is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:09 AM on 09/02/2007
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This ridiculous woman considers Iraq a stain on her legacy. How condescending is that? She is a stain on our country's legacy, a stain from the blood of the victims of our trumped up war. She can't hold a candle to Madeleine Albright and for all her touted intelligence, she behaves just as stupidly as Mr. Stultified, the Decider. They both sat complacently watching as Israel bombed Beirut to smithereens without lifting a finger. I have never liked this woman. She is vain and pompous and I care little for her pianistic accomplishments. She has served the worst administration our country has been forced to endure and any university that hires her deserves immediate discredit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:59 AM on 09/02/2007

Her legacy ...

Worst National Security Advisor

since the offoce was created seems right.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:46 AM on 09/02/2007
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