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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Wow! What ego! To be concerned with her legacy as an underling to a clown. As I write this the H-Post article on Rice is just above the article about Iraqi deaths reaching 1,800 for August. What a legacy. The "stain" referred to is a massive "blood stain." With any luck the students and faculty of Stanford will drive her out if she tries to return.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:02 PM on 09/01/2007

Condi has the blood of innocent Iraqi children and brave American soldiers on her fucking Ferrogamo's. Another sneering, arrogant member of the Bush gang who looks down on the rule of Law, the Constitution and the American people. Hey Condi, have you become "inclined" yet to answer the subpoena Congress served on you? What a disgrace to this country! And you just know when she leaves the government she'll be paid big bucks to sit on every corporate board of directors.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:00 PM on 09/01/2007
- lex I'm a Fan of lex permalink

i just sent Helene Cooper an email, here it is in full....

"hi Helene,
you continue to spin the 'Big Lie' of the neo-cons. this is wrong, didn't you even take journalism 101? you wrote, "But that was before she sounded public alarms based on faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war"

the big lie (proven at link below, shown in living color for the whole world to see on 60 Minutes)is the proven fact the intelligence was NOT FAULTY! Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice Rumsfeld, etc. cooked the books, they LIED.

"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure," Drumheller tells Bradley.

Drumheller was the CIA's top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:

"The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other," says Drumheller.

Drumheller says he doesn't think it mattered very much to the administration what the intelligence community had to say. "I think it mattered it if verified. This basic belief that had taken hold in the U.S. government that now is the time, we had the means, all we needed was the will," he says."

thank you,
gary"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 PM on 09/01/2007
- fatdave I'm a Fan of fatdave 2 fans permalink

Never mind you gap-toothed klingon. Mother Earth considers you a stain on her inner gusset.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:20 PM on 09/01/2007
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TAKE YOUR MILLIONS, MISS ("CHEVRON") KNEEPADS, AND GET OFF THE WORLD STAGE.

WE'VE ALL SEEN ENOUGH OF YOUR EVIL MUG AND YOU FAILED AT REINING IN THE MURDEROUS CHIMP.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:15 PM on 09/01/2007
- getoffmedz I'm a Fan of getoffmedz 114 fans permalink
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Condoleezza Rice is a stain.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:02 PM on 09/01/2007
- outnow I'm a Fan of outnow 192 fans permalink

Condi has a legacy of Uncle Thomism with blood on her hands that cannot be washed off. This stigmata is indelibly etched upon her soul, if she even possess one. Her "mushroom cloud" is an albatross around her neck that will drag her to Hell with Bush and Cheney. She and Colin Powell have betrayed human rights the world over. She is shameless.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:59 PM on 09/01/2007
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Isn't this the height of hubris. A stain on HER legacy?

SHE is the stain on the office of the Secretary of State.

What a waste of sperm.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:54 PM on 09/01/2007
- StillAmused I'm a Fan of StillAmused 273 fans permalink

Delirious flower girl for the neocons thinks she rates a "legacy"?

You have to fucking DO something to leave a legacy... even if it's half-assed.

YOU'RE the stain, Tanker Queen. Play yourself off the fuckin' stage... the piano's on rollers.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:48 PM on 09/01/2007
- hillaryj I'm a Fan of hillaryj 8 fans permalink
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......Well, bless her little heart!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:41 PM on 09/01/2007

STAIN ON HER LEGACY??

She is a festering sore on the face of this country, forget legacy...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:39 PM on 09/01/2007
- Libsrule I'm a Fan of Libsrule 21 fans permalink

A STAIN!?!?! A FUCKING STAIN???

Bitch. She takes NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BLOOD STAINS ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST and OF OUR FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN.

FUCK HER!

WHAT is it with these fucking assholes in this administration? Talk about pure ego.

Fucking bitch.

I hope she lives in very interesting times.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:22 PM on 09/01/2007

What legacy? What has this shit head contributed to the nation? There are thousands of PhDs that could have done a better job.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:16 PM on 09/01/2007
- Naithom I'm a Fan of Naithom 53 fans permalink
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I know it's rough getting those blood stains out, Condi, especially when they are deep set and have been there a while.

It never fails to disgust me that while American troops and Iraqi civilians die in a made-up war, her main concern is her "so called legacy".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:16 PM on 09/01/2007
- Shadow51 I'm a Fan of Shadow51 2 fans permalink

That stain is a blood stain. If I were her, I'd be less worried about my legacy and more worried about my Karma.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:08 PM on 09/01/2007
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