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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:20 PM
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Condoleezza Rice: "If You Want Another Terrorist Attack In The U.S., Abandon Afghanistan"
Source: Huffington Post

Those in Congress who would like to see the U.S. begin to pull out of Afghanistan don't have a supporter in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

In a new interview with Fortune Magazine, Rice offered extremely sharp criticism of the idea of withdrawal and painted the consequences of this course of action with an almost Cheneyesque bluntness.

"The last time we left Afghanistan, and we abandoned Pakistan," she said, "that territory became the very territory on which Al Qaeda trained and attacked us on September 11th. So our national security interests are very much tied up in not letting Afghanistan fail again and become a safe haven for terrorists.

"It's that simple," she declared, "if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/condoleezza-rice-if-you-w_n_294755.html
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MarjorieG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:22 PM
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1. Then why did we take our eyes and resources off in ffavor of Iraq. Now worse.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:24 PM
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4. Damn, you beat me too it.
I'm getting a little tired of being abused by Republicans that do whatever they fuck they want because they know that the good-government Democrats will pull our collected asses out of the fire.

:grrr:
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:25 PM
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5. It's Cheney-style fearmongering
Plain and simple. It's like they wish a terror attack would occur.
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tiny elvis Donating Member (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:13 PM
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25. cheney style means threat by proxy
not a wish, something more than mongering
empty threat from rice
cheney's real whacks came without warning
mafia style
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:15 PM
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27. What I meant was it mirrors Cheney's statements
You are talking more about actions.
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tiny elvis Donating Member (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:40 PM
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37. i know
but these statements are threats, not warnings
maybe empty threats now
but if cheney says everything is cool, grab your wallet and watch the skies
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:25 PM
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6. +1, nt
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:39 PM
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16. No kidding - nice try Condi. nt
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 12:58 PM
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98. She's Clueless
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last man out Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 06:21 PM
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74. Destroy Al Qaeda
My experience has been that the U.S. Armed Forces are driven by intelligence reports, no matter whether the reports are accurate or not. The truth is that once the report is given credibility, only by acting on that information is the truth learned. Some times the information says the threat has 40-50 soldiers set in place and when the U.S. force goes in with equal numbers ( more or less ) then learns that the actual count is 0-10 or 90-100, the U.S. force is overwhelming or hit hard with casualties.

Intelligence reports concerning Al Qaeda strength in Afghanistan back in '02-'03 said that the threat of WMD in Iraq were a greater threat than Al Qaeda activities on the ground in Afghanistan, so off we went to Baghdad. So many Al Qaeda forces escaped every muslim extreme nation in the region that Afghanistan became a safe haven to the worst of the islam murderers that soon, they were dug in everywhere by the time new intelligence reports noted the evidence and U.S. leaders finally admitted their mistake ( at least within their own (( Pentegon )) community ) and made some adjustments to add forces in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell any truth to the new reports and buy some time to gather accurate reports, digest the information, form a solution and begin again.

Mean while, inexperienced U.S. soldiers were killed, blown up, crippled, shot, captured and tortured. The horribleness of that fact is not lost on me, however, we must destroy Al Qaeda everywhere it exists and more soldiers will die in defense of our cherished freedom.

Two years ago we didn't know that Wall Street bank owners were gambling our financial stability and employment away, but now we do and we are addressing it. We can't get back the lost but we can and must protect our future for us and the next generation. We must do the same in Afganistan and refuse to let
any Al Qaeda cells on U.S. soil. It is late, but not too late.

John
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:07 AM
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92. Or we could go after the REAL Terrorists, who are already on American Soil
Edited on Wed Sep-23-09 04:11 AM by TheWatcher
and were Masquerading as leadership during the last dictatorship.

But it's more fun to live in a fantasy and treat ourselves to a steady diet of "America: FUCK YEAH!"

"Two years ago we didn't know that Wall Street bank owners were gambling our financial stability and employment away, but now we do and we are addressing it.'

Speak for yourself. Many of us did, and were laughed at and mocked every day while the majority of the country continued to believe the constant Media Propaganda that the economy was "Robust, Strong and getting Stronger."

RIGHT UP UNTIL THE DAY OF THE COLLAPSE.

And what did we do to address it?

Why, we bailed out the Criminals, engineered ANOTHER Fake Stock Market Bubble, and The Banksters are back to their old tricks again, preparing to fleece the Public of what they have left, while Helo Ben devalues the currency via monetization and Infinite Printing, while telling us The Recession is over and happy days are here again.

And the American Public?

They are mostly buying it with Both Hands.

My, THINGS SURE ARE CHANGING.

:eyes:
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 12:41 PM
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97. Excellent post!
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newspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 11:09 AM
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95. Maybe it would have been nice to be in on Cheney's secret energy meetings
It would also have been nice if the public remembered some of *'s remarks BEFORE he was selected. See, daddy would have got a second term if only he started another war, because, everyone knows that war makes a president. Or maybe they should have listened to some of his comments about Iraq. The * administration had every intention of going to war with Iraq, before the election. I knew if he was elected, we'd be in a war, he just needed an excuse.

When the UN is telling the US that there are no WMD's found, but * keeps saying "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." It is the US who tells the UN to get out of Iraq, because they're going to start bombing. And, violent actions taken, especially against civilians, guarantees more recruits for terrorism. You understand that, don't you?

Afghanistan is a sinkhole for any country who attempts to dominate it. It has been that way for centuries. Just ask the previous Soviet Union. So, are we being dismantled like the old Soviet Union by our war profiteering overlords? Because that's what it's looking like to me. As we funnel more and more dollars into these faux wars, our infrastructure, as well as, the people in this country suffer.

And fabricating Condi, the same Condi who got on TV after 9/11 and stated that she couldn't imagine that they'd use planes for an attack. The same Condi who couldn't bother to take notice of a PDB. The same Condi and the rest of the gang, who couldn't bother to listen to anyone from the previous administration, that terrorism would be their number one issue. And, the same Condi, who was out buying shoes while NO drowned.

You want to get rid of terrorism--CUT OFF THE FUNDS!!!! But, oh no, never gonna happen. Because, I bet, some of the greediest corps of the world are making major profits off of the "war on the terrorized." It's as simple as that, cut their money. Under Clinton, I believe, they attempted to pass a bill to follow the money, but the REPUG congress voted it down.
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:23 PM
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2. Actually what we would like is for the previous failed administration to BUTT THE FUCK OUT.
Thank you, that is all.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:29 PM
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34. You'd like them to butt out and I'd like to put their butts in jail.
Or watch them dangling from a tall, tall tree.
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:24 PM
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3. Shut up Condi. Your 15 minutes are over.
What the hell did you & the rest of the boosh admin do to prevent the 9/11 attack?

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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:10 PM
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24. Amen. And who the hell cares what
she thinks anymore? Her fellating of Bush when she should have damn well known better should alone be more than enough to shred any credibility she may have and cast doubt on her "judgment."
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:25 PM
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7. I do not believe a word of it...
We need not be in the middle east at all!
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:25 PM
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8. Actually, Condi, wasn't it the Saudis that attacked us on 9/11?
And the UAE? 15 of the attackers came from Saudi Arabia, 2 came from the UAE.

17 of the 19 attackers came from countries that are either friends and business partners of the Bush family or connected with Cheney's Halliburton. That's 89%.

Perhaps we should have attacked them instead? Or perhaps you should have made sure Bush read the August 6 PDB and made sure he understood what it meant...
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:43 PM
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59. Yep. And allegedly that extremely skilful flying
was the result of (very brief, abbreviated) training in US commercial flight schools.

Uh huh.

"Indoctrination", on the other hand, is no doubt going on at a lot of international locations, and has surely been greatly facilitated by the actions of the Bush (not only) regimes.
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Mrs. Ted Nancy Donating Member (303 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:23 PM
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76. Speaking of indoctrination
Is this for real?

US Spec Ops operates psywar websites targeted at UK

As far as we can tell we aren't one of them
By Lewis Page

Posted in Government, 16th September 2009 12:09 GMT
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The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare "influence websites" supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as "targeted regions".

SOCOM is principally famous for its large contingents of elite, secret operatives from all four US armed services (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Delta Force, Team-6/DevGru, "the Activity" etc etc). What's less well-known about the organisation is that it also includes the US forces' active psychological-warfare apparatus. According (pdf) to the 4th Airborne Psychological Operations Group - the only full-time psywar unit in the US Army, and part of SOCOM:


"PSYOP is the dissemination of truthful information to foreign audiences in support of US policy... these activities are not forms of force, but are force multipliers that use nonviolent means in often violent environments... they rely on logic, fear, desire or other mental factors... The ultimate objective of US military psychological operations is to convince enemy, neutral, and friendly nations and forces to take action favorable to the United States...
Their purpose can range from gaining support for US operations to preparing the battlefield for combat."

Now SOCOM's Joint Military Information Support Command, which "orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media campaign formatted to the cultures and languages of relevant audiences" in "what has become a tough, entrenched war of ideas" has deployed what it calls the Trans-Regional Web Initiative (TRWI). Specs on the programme were issued last year (pdf) and earlier this month General Dynamics was awarded $10,116,177 to run the Initiative for the first year.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/16/socom_psyops_against_uk/
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 01:55 PM
Response to Reply #76
100. For sure,
on the evidence, I think.
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:21 PM
Response to Reply #8
64. She is so full of shit.
just go away. :puke:
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:25 PM
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9. When will the war criminals sit down and shut up? Nobody wants to hear from them, except
maybe a few loons.
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:14 PM
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103. I agree. Except I'd like to hear from them at their trials for their crimes. //nt
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:25 PM
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10. For all my disdain for her, if she says it, I am inclined to believe it.
If Condoleeza says it and Hillary seconds, or the other way around, I'd really be inclined to believe it.
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:36 PM
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14. She of the huge lies about Iraq? The mushroom cloud etc?
You give her credibility? On what basis?
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:43 PM
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18. Because she's not in office. nt
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:45 PM
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19. astounding. Do grifters flock around you?
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:00 PM
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61. Though she could certainly be preparing to run.
So why does her not being in office mean anything? :shrug:
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:22 PM
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65. She's more "truthy" that way? Beats the hell out of me. nt
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:28 AM
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87. Neither is Cheney
Do you trust him more now, because he isn't in office?

How about Bush, elder and stupider? John Ashcroft? I could go on for quite a long time but hopefully you've reconsidered that stance.
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:07 PM
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102. I think Rice cares more about her reputation than those you mentioned.
She wants to be remembered as a great mind.

The rich white men know something she doesn't- it doesn't matter.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:07 PM
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105. If she wanted to be remembered that way,
she needed to act that way - consistently.
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:30 PM
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106. I think she's done pretty well for herself.
Think about how calculating this woman must have been, and at such a young age. I admire her for that. She may have sold her soul to the devil, but she got a good price for it.
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bc3000 Donating Member (766 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:53 PM
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42. I agree
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 06:06 PM
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71. I disagree. She's just looking for a job. This is part of the application process. n/t
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:12 AM
Response to Reply #10
93. Then you are completely lost.
And I'm not sure you can find your way back.

Wow, just unbelievable.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:26 PM
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11. Thanks for the advice, idiot.
You know, whenever I have a question about something, I always try to find an abysmal failure to tell me what I should do.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:30 PM
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12. Living up to their image when she was in the BUSH Executive Branch.
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:32 PM
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13. At this point if the neo-cons wanted action to happen, then they wouldn't discuss it publicly
Their reputations are shot to the point that if they want to be listened to, they shouldn't speak out loud.
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:38 PM
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15. Only if we leave the nation as is.
And by that I mean only if we don't partition the shit out of it.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:40 PM
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17. Is this the same Condi Rice...
...who looked at an August 2001 Public Daily Briefing titled, "Bin Laden Determined to
Commit Terrorist Attack Inside the United States" and decided that it wasn't important?

That same PDB, detailed that bin Laden wanted to fly airplanes into buildings.

THAT Condi Rice is now giving the Obama administration advice on avoiding terrorist
attacks?

How stupid is she? How oblivious is she to her own failings?
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polly7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:32 PM
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56. I've always wondered how much work it would have been
Edited on Tue Sep-22-09 03:35 PM by polly7
upon receiving that PDB for Bush to contact all the major airlines and stepped up all security, installed air-marshals like they did afterwards, fitting the cockpit doors with a lock that could be operated by the attendants, or having them locked before takeoff as they are now, I believe. Don't know much about it, but it doesn't seem like it would have been that hard. Which is a horrible shame.
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:47 PM
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20. Condi, if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S...
...you shirk your duties as National Security Advisor and ignore the Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US."

If she had any sense of shame, she would sit down and shut up the rest of her natural life.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 12:52 PM
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21. Bullshit. If you want another terrorist attack, elect Republicans. nt
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ThePantaloon.com Donating Member (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:02 PM
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22. Frightening
What's frightening is that it seems some GOP are hoping for an attack.
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Mithreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:03 PM
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23. Advice from a fool making excuses for why she failed. nt
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SandWalker1984 Donating Member (533 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:15 PM
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26. How many attacks on Russian soil have happened since they left?
Answer: Zero

When our government learns to keep their corporate-collective noses out of other countries business, then those people will look at the US more favorably.

In my opinion, attacking Afghanistan was more about their failure to negotiate pipeline agreements than about our security as, it has been pointed out here, the so called 9/11 terrorists (if you believe the CIA version of this) were mainly from Saudi Arabia not Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and Iraq are bottomless money pits into which our government is dumping money so Dick Cheney and his friends can get richer and richer, meanwhile we are told we cannot afford health care for American taxpayers that are paying for all of this.

Duh!
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:16 PM
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28. Well said IMO!
:hi:
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tiny elvis Donating Member (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:44 PM
Response to Reply #26
41. wrong
russia has had several attacks
both real and self inflicted
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 02:56 PM
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47. re-wrong
Russia has a huge problem with outlying regions of the old empire and former soviet union, specifically in the caucuses region, and that problem is not directly related to their failed efforts in afghanistan, predates by almost two centuries the soviet union, and was suppressed by sheer brutality (e.g. the deportation of the entire population) by one J. Stalin in efforts that kept down any nationalist movements for decades. The closest you can get to a connection is that the people of Afghanistan and Chechnya and Ingushetia etc are muslims and fiercely nationalistic.

The Taliban has not attacked Russia (nor did they attack us of course) nor has Al Qaeda.
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tiny elvis Donating Member (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:10 PM
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50. (nor did they attack us of course)
whole thing is moot
why has al q not attacked russia?
guess they're busy
you make dick cheney smile when you argue from his premise
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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:42 PM
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58. WTF you made an assertion that was false
and a-historical. Now you've backed off from that and instead have attempted to align me somehow with Dick Cheney.

Russia's historic problem in the caucuses has NOTHING to do with Afghanistan, and their pulling out of Afghanistan did not cause unrest in the caucuses aside from the withdrawal and the collapse of the soviet union being somewhat linked. The collapse of the USSR allowed for the renewal of nationalist movements across the former Russian empire and soviet client states. There is no case supporting Dick Cheney and his sidekick Rice that can be made out of the failed USSR experience in Afghanistan that our withdrawal from Afghanistan will result in attacks from taliban or al qaeda forces. Such claims are just more neocon bullshit.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:03 PM
Response to Reply #26
62. 'Zactly.
and welcome to DU. :hi:
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Libertas1776 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:17 PM
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29. If the US wants another attack...
we'll just make you National Security Advisor again, since obviously you were so good at that job.:sarcasm:
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LiberalLovinLug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:24 PM
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30. Seriously Condi. You want us to take you seriously?


seriously

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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:24 PM
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31. Think about how nice a woman Condi COULD be...
if she would JUST GET LAID! Geeze, how frigid can you GET?

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MissDeeds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:26 PM
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32. Oh, well, there it is
A proclamation from one of the great minds of the Bush administration. Gee, Condi, thanks for sharing your considerable insight and intellect. :sarcasm:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:27 PM
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33. Well, you've heard her. Get out of Afghanistan NOW!
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:32 PM
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35. STHU, Traitor Rice. You didn't care about that little ole PDB, now, did you?
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:32 PM
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36. Condi, I have never ever had an original thought ever, Rice, NOW comes out on
foreign policy?

Where the fuck was she for the past 8 fucking years? oh that's right, blowing moron*.
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:40 PM
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38. Worked so well for the Soviets
:eyes:
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:42 PM
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39. "No one could have imagined Al Qaeda would attack"
No one gives a shit what you say, you stupid hag.
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thelordofhell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:44 PM
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40. Here's how to get another terrorist attack in the U.S.
1. Ignore FBI warnings that people are training to only fly planes in American pilot schools.

2. Ignore CIA warnings that terrorists are planning a strike in the United States using planes.

3. Ignore reports from the previous administration on terrorism.

4. Ignore advisors who insist that a terror attack is imminent.

5. Go shoe shopping. (Oh, I'm sorry, that's how you respond to an American city being wiped off the face of the Earth)
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:54 PM
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43. STFU, you irrelevant ****
Kindasleazy Lies.
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tomm2thumbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 02:01 PM
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44. after Cheney, HER little head pops up to screech and then she pulls back down into her burrow

makes you wanna play whack a mole
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 02:25 PM
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45. It's shameful the way America allows war criminals to remain free
spreading their bullshit
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last man out Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 02:27 PM
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46. Anti - Al Qaeda offensives must continue!
C. Rice is absolutely correct in her assessment of Afghanistan and Al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda terrorists are being challenged by U.S. and allied armed forces in
Afghanistan which forces Al Qaeda to focus their resources to protect their
mountains, caves and ( centuries old ) hole in the ground hidouts. Al Qaeda
cannot allow their home-based hideouts to be lost, period.

In the interim, Al Qaeda resources to attack U.S. and other free nation sites
are limited and their deadly intentions against all people who don't give in
to their selfish demands, are curtailed.

Until a more direct ( and final ) response against Al Qaeda can be developed
and implemented, for self defense sake, we must keep them occupied, or else.

New York and the rest of the world know what "or else" means ( more Al Qaeda
attacks on defenseless citizens who don't even realize that they have been
targeted and are being stalked for mass murder and mahem ).

We had to fight to get freedom and we have fight to keep freedom. The only
way to keep Al Qaeda terrorists off of our land is to destroy ALL of THEIR
resources on THEIR land. If we don't destroy Al Qaeda now, Al Qaeda will be
attacking US tomorrow.

Our next generation, our children and our grand children, will be the target
of Al Qaeda too, if WE survive. We have to finish Al Qaeda now, period.


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tiny elvis Donating Member (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:00 PM
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49. al qaida is centuries old? and we need a final solution?
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:32 PM
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55. dubya, is that you? How's the pretzels? You still porkin' Condi?
Edited on Tue Sep-22-09 03:33 PM by Raster
Is cheney* still porkin' you? Why does your daddy hate you so? And what about those two missing years in the Texas Air National Guard Champagne unit? Are you still doing blow with ol' Bulldog?
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 09:47 PM
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80. ...
:wtf:
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:34 AM
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89. Someone let the little guy stay up too late
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:32 AM
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88. You like writing Al Qaeda, don't you?
I wonder if they make pizza? Al Qaeda, I mean.
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newspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 11:40 AM
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96. you mean the Al Qaeda that we basically created?
That Al Qaeda? Al Qaeda that Bhutto warned us that it would bite us in the butt? I remember clearly on 9/11--I remember an immigration official who was interviewed on TV stating that certain citizens coming from SA were not to be given the thorough investigation before coming into this country. The order came from above. Now, I wish I would have recorded all of the interviews coming out right after 9/11. And then, there were those from the House of Saud and Bin Ladens who were allowed to fly out of this country right after that fateful day.

Those hijackers were mainly from the SA. And look what * gave to Bin Laden. He closed one of our bases in SA that Bin Laden didn't approve, he got rid of Saddam who Bin Laden hated. Also, our wars have been a great recruiting tool for guess who? And, who has been crossing over into Iraq and causing some of those attacks against civilians? Why, per a terrorist expert, it's SA. And what role did Pakistan play? Remember the general from Pakistan who allegedly wired money to Atta? And, why did we forgive our debt to Pakistan?

Just some questions, I'd like answered. This reality is starting to look more like the film "Brazil."
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ellie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 02:57 PM
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48. I saw this dummy had
something to say so I rushed right into this thread to add my FUCK YOU CONDI! to it.

I feel much better now. I hate that woman with the red hot intensity of a thousand suns.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:15 PM
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51. Uh.
I see, the poster mistress of MASSIVE FAIL has an opinion now.

That's what was missing. Well . . . .

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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:21 PM
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54. PO mentioned this on Letterman's last night..
that we were in Afghanistan in 2001 and then we got sidetracked.

His way of saying bush+cheney+condi..messed the fuck up and now we have to deal with it.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:18 PM
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52.  condi/national security advisor during 9/11/
doesn't really have a good resume to stand on.
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:22 PM
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66. Yup.
you nailed it.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:21 PM
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53. .....
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timo Donating Member (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:35 PM
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57. more war chit chat from the war mongers
fuck them pull out, pull out now, never look back, tighten shit up here at home before we try and fix the rest of the world
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 03:47 PM
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60. Terra Terra Terra! Fear Fear Fear!
Spews the woman who no doubt is in on the LIHOP/MIHOP of 911.

Condi-go shop for some more shoes-that's probably what you do best.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:21 PM
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63. August 6, 2001: " Bin Laden determined to strike in US." Remember this Condi?
And "No One Could Have Anticipated' Terrorists Flying Planes Into Buildings Before 9/11 "

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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:01 PM
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67. PNACese, translated: "If you pull out of Afghanistan, the oil and defense industries,
(by the way, did you know that I actually have a great big oil tanker named after me?) will be denied the enormous unlimited profits to which they are accustomed during wartime. No one has ever been able to conquer Afghanistan - that makes this war a bloody inexhaustible gold mine, let me tell you!(heavy breathing, orgasmic moaning) Oh, sorry, where was I? Oh, yeah - And do you have any idea how much planning it took to pull off 9/11 and the subsequent wars without anyone in the PNAC or the Bu*h administration getting prosecuted? It would be sheer genius if the American people weren't such gullible sheep. Just because I was the head National Security Advisor when 9/11 occurred doesn't mean I failed at the job. (Hell, we made so much money on it all, only a stupid liberal would argue that it wasn't an enormous success - different value systems and all that, ya know :wink:). So don't even think about ending these wars that we spent so much time orchestrating, or it'll be much more spectacular this time, if you catch my drift."
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:32 PM
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78. ...and then there's US drug running . . . !!! Taliban might drop production again--!!!
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:10 PM
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68. I have a better idea...
Edited on Tue Sep-22-09 05:20 PM by AntiFascist
crack down on the governmental corruption that allowed 9-11 to happen in the first place.

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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:47 PM
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69. That Sounds Like an Open Threat, To Me
Still speaking for the BFEE, Condi? Passing along Poopy's warning?
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 06:03 PM
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70. Obama could hire her back and that would
guarantee it even more.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 06:09 PM
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72. Who the f$%^ said anything about abandoning Afghanistan?
:eyes:
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IDFbunny Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 06:17 PM
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73. Somalia is the new Afghanistan
Indoctrination camps will pop up and we will get hit again like a pop-a-mole. We won't be able to cover it all anyway.

The only solution is to give up Israel and convert to Islam.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:40 AM
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90. No, actually the cure is much less black and white and substantially harder
First, we need to get Israel to stop encroaching on others territory. That is going to be a bitch of a hard thing to get them to do. Then we need to get them to stop banging on their chests. And then we all need to show a couple of generations of the Middle Easterners that we aren't trying to destroy them. Eventually, the children of the children of the children might decide to quit with all that jihadist crap. But none of us wants to go for such a long term fix so it will continue, as you say, like pop-a-mole. We've tried force and it's been shown not to work. Now we need to try caring and not being assholes. Might work and certainly couldn't hurt.
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PeaceDreamer Donating Member (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 06:29 PM
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75. Don't these Bushies ever go away?
Shut it, Condi.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:31 PM
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77. From the team that was keeping us safe when the WTC went down . . !!!! Thanks, Condi!!!
Since we know from Richard Clarke that they purposefully IGNORED every warning

on "terrorism" -- I would suspect that if there is another terrorist attack, it

will be orchestrated by them -- again!!

Looks like the GOP is still counting on "false flagging" their way to power?



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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 09:37 PM
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79. now, now....
"if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan."

....911 did not occur because of Afghanistan but because YOU couldn't control our airspace, YOU couldn't control our aircraft, YOU couldn't control our borders and because YOU couldn't keep our country and citizens safe. And didn't YOU, in fact, 'abandon Afghanistan' in favor of Iraq?

....spending a trillion dollars fighting a useless corporate pipeline war is just another repug wet 'pipe' dream that shouldn't happen....
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 10:12 PM
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81. Says the "national security advisor" who ignored "Bin Laden determined to strike inside US"
and held ZERO counterterrorism meetings prior to 9-11.

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jtrockville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 10:20 PM
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82. Ummm... remind me why Condi has cred. on avoiding a terrorist attack?
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 11:03 PM
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83. Condi "mushroom cloud" Rice?
Hmm, sorry she's not highly credible in areas such as these. ;)
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 11:08 PM
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84. Why is the media reporting anything from her?
Anything from Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and so on should be automatically ignored. Huffington post? Really? Ugh.
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KakistocracyHater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 12:45 AM
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85. she has been wrong for SO long & still is, I'd do the opposite of what she
says. DON'T let Pakistan become the 'Iraq' of the 2010s. Berlin Food Drop, again.
Maybe it will sink in?
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:24 AM
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86. Will it be in the form of a mushroom cloud?!???!!!!!111
Oh noes!

Great Goddess woman, get up off of the floor. Those kneepads must be wearing awfully thin by now and in case you haven't noticed, you're boyfriend has pretty much learned the stfu game. You might want to try it.
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:59 AM
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91. This country is being run by a bunch of abusive Spouses.
Edited on Wed Sep-23-09 04:00 AM by TheWatcher
"Don't tell us what to do or we'll slap you again."

Let us have more wars, as many as we want, or another attack will just HAPPEN to occur, as if by WILD coincidence.

Jesus Christ, WILL THIS COUNTRY EVER WAKE UP TO WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO IT?
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 09:23 AM
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94. Or rehire Condi.
Much simpler.
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Bragi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 01:01 PM
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99. Yo, Condi ! I'm happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but...
I prefer the new bunch by a whole lot.

Maybe you should go travel abroad. Talk to people about the magic that happened inside the biggest show on earth.

Oh, I forgot, you can't travel much!

Whatever, it would still be good to have you out of my face.

Thanks.

- B
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:23 PM
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104. FTW!
If we could get Kanye to throw a shoe at Condi, THEN we'd have us a memefest!
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 01:56 PM
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101. Shut up CondiLier, shut up! nt
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 06:48 PM
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107. It's all Raygun's fault.
.
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