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

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


stumbleupon :NYT: Rice Considers Iraq A "Stain" On Her Legacy   digg: NYT: Rice Considers Iraq A "Stain" On Her Legacy   reddit: NYT: Rice Considers Iraq A "Stain" On Her Legacy   del.icio.us: NYT: Rice Considers Iraq A "Stain" On Her Legacy

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."

Comments for this post are now closed

 
Comments
572
Pending Comments
0
iPhone App Promo

Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to

View Comments:
Page: « First ‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next › Last » (15 pages total)
- lthuedk I'm a Fan of lthuedk 22 fans permalink

Shall we examine the "stain," then?

The CIA's Aug 6 PDB trick, the mushroom cloud tactic, the Brewster Jennings destruction, and the attempted Neo Con subversion of the United States. It looks indelible.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/worm_2.html

Unless, of course, she flips, comes clean, and works diligently with Justice in the prosecution of the Bush Administration.

.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:18 PM on 09/01/2007

I guess that only leaves Dick and George to eventually announce that Iraq was a stain on their legacy too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:14 PM on 09/01/2007
- kittycago I'm a Fan of kittycago 5 fans permalink

She is a stain on our nation and our soldiers that have died or lost limbs due to her lies when she was a stepping up the dialogue for her lying boss with talks of mushroom clouds and nuclear rods when she knew it was all these claims were debunked before she did make her Sunday morning fright appearances.she also is a russina expert -how is that working lately CondeLIESa?I would try her ,Bush ,Cheney ,Rumsfeld,Tommy Franks,and a few select more for wreckless endangerment and depraved indifference to human life if I had my way in this nation.Her legacy indeed!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:03 PM on 09/01/2007
- amanda85 I'm a Fan of amanda85 108 fans permalink

More to the point, Rice is a stain on the legacy of African-Americans...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:03 PM on 09/01/2007

At one point, she probably knew better, but she gave into hate, greed, and ignorance. The only institution she belongs in is FCI Dublin, northern California.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:59 PM on 09/01/2007
- Lisette I'm a Fan of Lisette 39 fans permalink
photo

----------------------------------------------
Did Condi ever do anything, besides smile and shake hands????
---------------------------------------

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:58 PM on 09/01/2007
- arabbit I'm a Fan of arabbit 2 fans permalink

Being a war criminal does tend to leave stains.
People will find her legacy by following the trail of blood.
Rabbit

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:56 PM on 09/01/2007
- HumeSkeptic I'm a Fan of HumeSkeptic 1658 fans permalink
photo

THE KNOWN UNKNOWABLE
---------------------


British army chief attacks US as 'intellectually bankrupt' over Iraq


Peter Richards
Saturday September 1, 2007
The Guardian


The former head of the British Army has attacked US postwar policy, calling it "intellectually bankrupt".
General Sir Mike Jackson, who headed the army during the war in Iraq, described as "nonsensical" the claim by the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that US forces "don't do nation-building". He has also hit back at suggestions that British forces had failed in Basra.

Mr Rumsfeld was "one of the most responsible for the current situation in Iraq," Gen Jackson says in his autobiography, Soldier. He describes Washington's approach to fighting global terrorism as "inadequate" for relying on military power over diplomacy and nation-building.

...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2160384,00.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:31 PM on 09/01/2007
- wordvarc I'm a Fan of wordvarc 32 fans permalink

RICE IS A STAIN ON STANFORD

Iraq is w's alone.

Rice is only another of his goons that allowed the unjust, unethical, immoral, pre-emptive invasion and destablization of Iraq.

She's a stain on Stanford. Send her to The Hague with w's gang.
.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:29 PM on 09/01/2007
- starrianna I'm a Fan of starrianna 49 fans permalink
photo

******************************************
NEW STANFORD PROFESSORS FOR 2008-9:
******************************************
KARL ROVE - Political Science 101
A Series. Includes Dirty Tricks 301/2/3 and Gaybashing 201, and a special lecture entitled: "How to Make Christians Your Bitch!"
RICHARD "DICK" CHENEY - Gerontology 401
New uses for old people in the workplace: grind them up using advanced rendition techniques! Special Field Trip to fabulous secret locales in Cuba, Romania, and Poland.
JEFF GANNON - Journalism 101
How to Get Jobs By Sucking Cock. Period.
It's easy and it's fun! Demonstrations by former Senator Larry Craig (R-ID). Also includes: How to get night passes to the White House, How to Earn Extra Income while Escorting, in conjunction with Matt Sanchez's lecture on:
"How to Do Gay Porn While Still Being Straight"
(live demonstrations)
LYNNE CHENEY - Women's Studies 609
Ms. Cheney will read sensuous and hard-hitting passages from her masterwork "Sisters" while Swedish pages ply you with wine pressed by naked virgins from her home state of Wyoming. Extra Credit given if you join one of her "think tanks".
OSAMA BIN LADEN - Business Finance 666
[Note: Professor may not be available, in which place another member of the Carlyle Group, such as one of the Bin Laden Brothers or George Bush Sr. will preside over the class]
Subjects include: How to take War Profiteering Cash away from the American people, and by diverting it through "lost" or "stolen" merchandise, build huge illegal secret terrorist empires that don't have to pay taxes and are completely outside the financial system! Unlimited profits guaranteed.
LAURA BUSH - Professor of Education 101
Note: Special Studies Class
How to bring EVERY child, even the most hopeless and borderline retarded, up to a minimum level by reading shitty books to them, spending $999 billion on crappy educational materials and doing nothing else. Laura shows how even your lame-ass child can, under her tutelage, become a loyal Dairy Queen employee and/or President of the United States!
Visual Aids: A Sock Puppet OR her husband George, depending on scheduling.
***********************************************
anyone else have suggestions for STANFORD?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:22 PM on 09/01/2007
- partyofone I'm a Fan of partyofone 45 fans permalink

Is Judith Miller still at the NYT and writing under the name "Helene Cooper". This article was Bush/Rice spin, pure and simple.

How could a serious journalist write a 2,300 word article about Rice and her legacy and omit any reference to September 11, 2001? Is it just a minor detail that Rice was National Security Advisor when the nation was attacked? The role of the National Security Advisor is to coordinate the foreign and defense policies of the country, and advise the President on issues of national security.

There is a substantial body of evidence that Rice was aware of but failed to give priority to reports of an imminent al Qaeda attack, or was not sufficiently assertive to focus President Bush's attention on the threat. The President's Daily Security Brief on August 6, 2001 stated "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike". Rice received a briefing from then CIA Director George Tenet and top CIA counterterrorism expert Cofer Black on July 10, 2001 in which reportedly stated in the starkest terms that an al Qaeda attack was imminent. What about the Daily Briefing from the Clinton era saying "Bin Ladin Determined to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks."

By any reasonable standard, Rice failed the nation miserably as national security advisor in 2001. She failed again when she was an enabler for the President in conflating 9/11 and Iraq, and in spreading propoganda to justify an elective, unprovoked war, alienating much of the world and many U.S. allies.

Rice's legacy is the same as Bush's. She's an incompetent, lying, war-mongering, criminal. She should be shunned by any higher education institution with any ounce of integrit. Let her go be a "scholar" at the George W. Bush Library and Center for Propoganda at Southern Methodist University, and spend her weekends at the Crawford Ranch.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:15 PM on 09/01/2007
- Tom95134 I'm a Fan of Tom95134 56 fans permalink
photo

Poor Condi. Let's all cry crocodile tears for her. It's too bad that her "legacy" is so tarnished by her incompetent performance as National Security Advisor.

As penance, for her job poorly done, I sentence her to go to Baghdad, live there for 60 days, put on body armour everyday, and ride with our troops through the streets and villages that she created because she backed the wrong horse's ass.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:14 PM on 09/01/2007
- micdago I'm a Fan of micdago 2 fans permalink

"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.'"

An Oriental who doesn't want any more Rice! Quite telling. (I had to go for it, apologies, Mr. Wu.)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:10 PM on 09/01/2007

Legacy as in lifting their legs to mark their territory.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:08 PM on 09/01/2007
photo

Good one. Yeah, she's all that.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:14 PM on 09/01/2007

What Legacy?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:01 PM on 09/01/2007
- helonias I'm a Fan of helonias 263 fans permalink
photo

She meant Bela Legosi.

Probably something to do with drug addicts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:20 PM on 09/01/2007
Page: « First ‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next › Last » (15 pages total)
Comments are closed for this entry

 You must be logged in to comment. Log in  or connect with 

Connect