   Rice now Head of Iraq Freedom
Rice now officially in charge of post-Iraq strategy. Have we not learned our lesson in letting UNQUALIFIED individuals to take control important and complicated situations. Raise your hand if you think this is a good idea.   
  What's the job description for that position?   ;  So a person who admitted herself (see 9/11 commission testimony) that she has absolutely no leadership or descision making skills is going to be in charge of handling one of the worst messes America has gotten into this century. Face it, she was a university professor, and she still is. She can make all the hindsight big word essays and broad theories about geopolitical relations, but when it comes to working, and worse, taking a leadership role in the real world, she is absolutely useless.Quote:Bin Ladin determined to attack inside USTerrorists making plans to hijack one or more planesTerrorists observed at flight training schoolQuote:No one told me to do anything about it;  Is this part of grooming her for 2008? She can campaign on what a great job she did for Iraq. Here's a scathing criticism of her: Condi's Trail of LiesQuote: 12/08/05 "Salon.com" -- -- Condoleezza Rice's contradictory, misleading and outright false statements about the US and torture have taken America's moral standing - and her own - to new depths. The metamorphosis of Condoleezza Rice from the chrysalis of the protégé into the butterfly of the State Department has not been a natural evolution but has demanded self-discipline. She has burnished an image of the ultimate loyalist, yet betrayed her mentor, George H.W. Bush's national security advisor Brent Scowcroft. She is the team player, yet carefully inserted knives in the back of her predecessor, Colin Powell, climbing up them like a ladder of success. She is the person most trusted on foreign policy by the president, yet was an enabler for Vice President Cheney and the neoconservatives. Now her public relations team at the State Department depicts her as a restorer of realism, builder of alliances and maker of peace.On her first trip to Europe early this year she left the sensation of being fresh by listening rather than lecturing. The flirtation of power appeared to have a more seductive effect than arrogance. So the old face became a new face. But on this week's trip the iron butterfly emerged.Rice arrived as the enforcer of the Bush administration's torture policy. She reminded the queasy Europeans that their intelligence services, one way or another, are involved in the rendition of hundreds of suspected terrorists transported through their airports for harsh interrogation in countries like Jordan and Egypt or secret CIA prisons known as "black sites." With her warnings, Rice recast the Western alliance as a partnership in complicity. In her attempt to impose silence, she spread guilt. Everybody is unclean in the dirty war and nobody has any right to complain. "What I would hope that our allies would acknowledge," she said, "is that we are all in this together." ...;  Didn't she get charged with straightening out Iraq in the first place? I'm pretty sure Bush named her as the post-invasion Iraq go-to person even before her promotion to SoS.   ;  She was not actually very convincing, when she visited Europe , regarding the alledged torture practices over here. I didn't follow this all, I just saw her making a kind of uncomfortable speech over here (on TV) ,   but all credibility of tnose individuals has long, long been lost in my opinion.If she is really now head of project Iraqi freedom.. well that is just.. making me think that there is no direction at all on the top. [remark striken]   ;  Fall girl.In other news, I still think Condi is sexy. As hell.   ;  what is a fall girl? (i'm Dutch)   ;  You're kidding me, right?   ;Quote:Original post by Marminwhat is a fall girl? (i'm Dutch)A Fall guy means that person is a scapegoat.Oluseyi is saying that Rice is being set up to take all the blame for Iraq's failure, rather than the people who deserve the blame.   