Sitting bravely behind concrete walls while visiting Iraq this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose to channel her boss (circa 2003) by responding to Muqtada al-Sadr’s latest threat with an official “taunt” from the U.S. government:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. …(read on)
VetVoice’s’ Brandon Friedman goes on to explain that this “actually provides a huge piece of propaganda for Sadr, who can now use it as a rallying point for his followers who will view this as a challenge to their honor,” and just when the surge was beginning to work so well.
Spencer Ackerman has more.
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Condi, STFU! Nice of you to toss a match into the 100 gallons of gasoline. Especially when you are about to hightail it out of dodge.
Well of course… miserable liars come in all shapes and sizes.
they gotta get this war with iran going before the elections…
If there’s nothing for her to lie about, then she simply says something inflamatory.
As pissed off Patricia has observed, this statement really is bound to be an inFLAMatory one.
Meanwhile, a real American patriot, Jimmy Carter, was in Palestine, negotiating peace.
I think the Torture Queen is projecting…
Is Al-Sadr anti-american?
Why do I always look down when I want to look up
Why do I shake somebody down when Im feelin shook up
Why do I wander around when I want to hook up
Why am I puttin it down when I wanna pick up
If the whorehouse wants us to believe it’s not trying to pick a fight and get more soldiers killed simply so they can keep their war profiteering going why would they send Bucky the Wonder Horse to the top of a hill to taunt the people we are supposedly trying to achieve peace with?
Ewwwwww…feh! A link to FauxNews without a warning. Not fair.
Jeesh what a sordid record the black Republican has. Losers each and every one. Claude Allen, Alphonso, Condi, Powell.
The only way to stop what Cheney is doing (via, inter alia, Rice’s taunts) is to make sure that people know that al Maliki has stronger links to Iran than al Sadr.
In a way, you are focusing on the wrong part of the taunt. The key isn’t just the daring al Sadr to turn his followers loose. The key is how she said that al Sadr is in Iran, which is designed to fool the American public into thinking al Sadr has stronger links to Iran than al Maliki.
They already tried to link Iran to AQI, but that (amazingly) failed. So the new trick is to get al Sadr to fight back (which he’ll have to at some point; he can’t let his people in Sadr City be starved, etc.). Then they’ll keep hammering away (i.e., lying) about al Sadr links to Iran to get the public behind an attack on Iran.
We lost the nuclear argument when the damned NIE report came out. We can’t use Bin Laden, since he has absolutely nothing to do with Iran and everyone knows it. We tried and failed with the staged incident in the Red Sea. We tried and failed with AQI. So, not we’re going to try to start a war with Iran using al Sadr.
Help stop this by repeating, as often as possible, to as many people as possible: al Maliki has stronger links to Iran than al Sadr.
The man has nothing to lose…we have a saying about that. Rice, a provincial American, is taunting emotions she does not understand. Perhaps Sadr will see this a bravado for trailer park consumption..perhaps he will not. I think Mr. Bush, in hind sight , regretted his use of this style. Ms. Rice cannot hope to fix anything in Iraq with talk like that.
Not to worry John McGoo will save us with his revolutionary new ideas ….like stay the course….surge….surge is working…as safe as a market in Indiana…more purple fingers for all…follow us home…100 years…Sunni….I mean Shia…Shia…I mean Sunni…er..al-Qaeda…I mean Iran…or extremists…um…I don’t know about economy…thank you my friends.
Oh McGoo you’ve done it again!
What? Is the surge working too well and they need to stir up more shit? Like Fox said at comment 6, President Carter is trying to bring peace by communication and Rice is trying to bring on more killing by taunting.
Get ready to go shoe shopping Ms Rice, because thanks to you some real shit could well hit the fan and we all know how you react at a time of crisis.
Condoleezza McBeth doesn’t have enough blood on her hands?
Who could have anticipated….
God do I hate this stupid, affirmative action bitch. Like Bush, she hasn’t done shit in eight years.
Stupid is as Stupid Does! This lying bitch has no sense of what she is doing to the USA, the troops or the world at large. She’s just another war criminal from the Bush$Co fascism parade!
Maybe she’s auditioning for the number two spot on the McCain ticket.
Ms. Rice cannot hope to fix anything in Iraq with talk like that.
But she might win the VP spot on the GOP ticket. And since when did this admin actually want to fix anything in Iraq? They want a permanent clusterfck to justify permanent occupation. Which they dont want to win, because what happens when you “win” the occupation?
You leave.
Good points JTM, but Americans don’t know if al Sadr is a Shiite Al Qaeda, or an Iranian Sunni, or a Kurdish rebel posing as a Shiite posing as a Al Qaeda to build IED’s for Iran?
Condi Baby
“Your mouth will generally get you into more trouble than it will get you out of…”
Ah, the little chicken hawk lady speaks! Brave, brave Condi.
Excuse me… but I didn’t see the word ‘coward’, which you put in quotes in your headline, anywhere in what Rice was purported to have said.
What does C&L mean by putting such words in quotes?
Princess Condi the boneheaded, destined to be the greatest secretary of state ever! The splurge is working but hair isn’t girl.
The most “do nothing and just show up” Sec of State ever, now resorts to name calling and taunting like her idiot boss. Getting a little testy now Condi? We’re counting the days until your gone. As a Bush puppet she’s worthless and has no credibility.
Isn’t it time for Condi “Chevron named an oil tanker after me and all I got was this lousy Secretary of State job” Rice to go shoe shopping for some more S&M boots? How about some tickets to Spamalot? Fucking war criminal.
some would say he’s a patriot, and others would say he is a coward…
hmm…
Prairie Sunshine @ 16:
Anybody with a brain could have, sunshine.
Angling for the vice-presidency already?
Fugly is as fungly does.
Well, Ah thinks he’s one o’ those damned Cuban Chinese Commies, is what Ah thinks. Kill ‘em all, damn it. Ah’m votin’ Republican agin!
Thats the way to win friends and influence people,condosleazy. Dale Carnegie would be so proud of you!
f**king warmonger
WASHINGTON (AP)–U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the U.S. Air
Force is not doing enough to help the Iraq war effort, complaining that some
military leaders are “stuck in old ways of doing business.”
Gates complained Monday in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama that
getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been “like pulling teeth.”
The Pentagon chief praised the Air Force for its overall contributions in
Iraq and Afghanistan but made a point of urging it to do more and to undertake
more creative ways of thinking about helping the war effort.
MS Chevron Tanker
McCain/Rice ‘08.
Bring THAT on and let the voters decide.
I’d bet that Condi Rice’s taunting will work in Al Sadr’s favor among many Shia. This may even work to his advantage among those Shia in Iraq that are his rivals and will cement an alliance between them. A taunt coming from Bush or some other male official is one thing but when it comes from a non-combatant woman it could be seen as an serious insult to all Shia and maybe some Sunni Iraqi Muslims as well. Rice’s comments may have just set in motion a new wave of suicide bombers and who knows what else.
Pissed off Patricia,
Carter said on NPR that privately the State Department supported his trip. But publicly the State Department is ripping Carter.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
We can see who she’s loyal to
http://tinyurl.com/2cfrwu
Canuknotusa @ 24:
Here
BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.
ysbaddaden @ 30:
Fugly is as fugly does…but maybe she does have a problem with fungae.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
Ms Exxon Valdez?
Embittered American named Janet @ 39:
Sorry, but my understanding of a quote is that it is the exact words spoken. Maybe the definition is different in the US?
She’s an idiot, period. one of many in this administration. the second our troops feel they are making some headway some idiot has to stir the shit storm and start getting people killed.
Rosanne @ 29:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hAg_k69a4M
“One of the more bizarre characters:
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Torture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqaw5UnHA4
THIS….is just more bush diplomacy. What a dumb bitch!
Ossi @ 7:
This is the first time I remember him being specifically portrayed as such. He is anti-occupation and the time’s assertion, without any explaination is probably part of a government attempt to introduce war mongering propaganda into the the public eye.
Does the name “Judith Miller” ring a bell j?
another episode starring Condoleeza Rice:
Condoleezza Rice Led Chevron’s Public Policy Committee During Oil For Food Scandal
http://thegooddemocrat.wordpre.....d-scandal/
Why didn’t she just say “bring ‘em on?”
That worked so well last time…
“I know he’s sitting in Iran,” Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr’s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. “I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him,” Rice said. “I guess that’s the message; his followers can go too their deaths and he’s in Iran.”
And exactly where was the leader sitting who declared the invasion of Iraq? Was it all out war for anyone but him? Was he there with the soldiers fighting and dying, due to his command? Whose troops went to their deaths in Iraq while their leader cleared brush, rode his bike and made incoherent statements in the USA?
And, I’d bet that after Condi made those statements she slapped several U.S. troops on the back who were about to go out on patrol in Baghdad and said: “Go get em you guys! ha ha!” Knowing full well that she probably has just unleashed a new fire storm that those same troops will have to contend with.
How is it that I have no experience in foreign policy or the Middle East and Ms. Rice is supposedly a well-educated Secretary of State…but I’m smart enough to know that you don’t openly call a Middle Eastern man, whose culture is extremely male-centric and who has a powerful regional army, a COWARD in PUBLIC when he’s threatening you?!?
What in the world is WRONG with these people?!?
OK, maybe I’m a conspiracy nut, but, could it be that the Admin thinks stirring up the shit (and getting more of our people killed) in Iraq will help McInsane’s chances?
She’s ready to take on those nasty brown people. First… a little shopping:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7765/641rn1.jpg