Bush Aide Draws Fire with Pre-Election Speech

[NVMojo]

...more and more of this, while we foot the bill to hear more and more about nothing about Bush.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser touted the president's foreign policy to a Jewish group on Monday in a speech Democrats said was as a blatant foray into Bush's re-election campaign.

Although Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) did not mention Bush's Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), by name, her speech reflected the Bush campaign's portrayal of Kerry as having a too narrow view of the war on terrorism.

"For some it is a limited engagement whose goal is to go after Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and al Qaeda, assume a more defensive posture at home and one day be able to put it out of our mind," Rice told the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

MORE....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=5&u=/nm/20041025/pl_nm/campaign_rice_dc

[Jacobin]

1. Wonder if Condi told them what Iraqis call American Soldiers?

was speaking the other day with Scott Pelley of CBS News's "60 Minutes" about the mood in Iraq. He had just returned from filming a piece there and he told me something disturbing. Scott had gone around and asked Iraqis on the streets what they called American troops - wondering if they had nicknames for us in the way we used to call the Nazis "Krauts" or the Vietcong "Charlie." And what did he find? "Many Iraqis have so much distrust for U.S. forces we found they've come up with a nickname for our troops," Scott said. "They call American soldiers 'The Jews,' as in, 'Don't go down that street, the Jews set up a roadblock.' "

According to Tom Friedman, who I find to be fully culpable in fomenting this invasion, but who at least has figured out it is a complete disaster.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/opinion/24friedman.html

[NVMojo]

2. calling names is a way to relieve that old powerless feeling....

[leftchick]

4. interesting....

I will never forgive friedman for his warmongering but this interesting. Does anyone know what the troops call Iraqis?

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Is that rhetorical or do you really not know?

"Does anyone know what the troops call Iraqis?"

[Jacobin]

6. I don't know for sure

I've heard they call them "Muhammed" or "ragheads", but I don't know.

[leftchick]

9. I really don't know....

I have heard "ragheads" used but not from anyone in the Military.

[phrenzy]

15. Ali Baba

They call them 'Ali Baba'

Can't remember where I heard that - but that is the Iraqi version of 'Gook'

[Nag Champa]

8. I believe they call them Hajis...eom

[leftchick]

10. why Haji?

isn't that from India?

[Nag Champa]

16. I'm no expert....but....

I watched the series, "Off to War" on Discovery Times channel where they follow some National Guardsmen to Iraq. One of the guys explained that they called them Hajis, referring to a Muslim who has completed his trip to Mecca...the haj. He said they used it as a racist term for the Iraqis.

[leftchick]

18. how special! using racist terms....

must make it easier to kill them.

[Voltaire99]

26. Yes. And they learn it from the top.

"You're either with us or with the terra-ists."

[lumpy]

22. No, look it up

That is what the internet is for.

[Nag Champa]

27. I was just reporting, man...

and thats what the guardsman said they used and why they used it.

[Debi]

17. Johnny Quest is not racist!

n/t

[KoKo]

20. But, wouldn't put it past Friedman to foster the belief that anti-semitism

is on the rise, giving him an excuse for his Pre-Invasion war mongering.

[malachi]

3. Condi skanking for the monkey. (Apologies to Steve Earle)

[Supersedeas]

7. For some, a strawman is great rhetoric and though political not about the

campaign....Rice has absolutely no credibility.

For some....insert attack Party talking point with no basis in reality.

Some say...insert attack Party talking point with no basis in reality.

How often do we hear this...yet how often does the Media point it out.

[cubsfan forever]

11. Poor little Miss Rice

as fake and pathetic as her non existent degrees.

Professor 2

[BlueScreen]

12. Don't forget who she was speaking to

AIPAC is the Israeli political lobby that was recently tainted by allegations that they were receiving classified documents from a Pentagon employee.

Just find it interesting.

Sagar

[reprobate]

13. Why does Cindasleezy Rice has ANY credability?

Her backgroud and education was about the soviet union. How does that qualify her as an expert on the middle east or islam? Other than of course being the monkey's main squeeze.

BTW George, with the librarian on one side of you and the oil empress on the other, are there any battles for who pulls the most blanket off the other's side? Must get interesting at night.

[LizW]

14. Aide?

The guy who carries Bush's coat is an aide. Condoleeza Rice is a senior White House Official!

Geez Louise, these headlines. :eyes:

[underpants]

19. When "marshall (ing) all elements..." why did you only use the military?

"But this is not the struggle that we face. The global war on terror calls us, as President Bush immediately understood, to marshal all elements of our national power to beat terror and the ideology of hatred that protects them and recruits others to their ranks."

[LuminousX]

21. This coming from a group that never bothered to consult

with Madeline Albright regarding any of the negotiations she had been carrying on while in office as Secretary of State. God I despise them so much. I hate willful ignorance and the Bush Administration is filled with it.

[robbedvoter]

23. Shouldn't she tend to her NEWS on the stolen explosives?

NYT sez she was only told about a month or so - is that her response? Campaigning? Not much improvement since the "historical" PDB!

[Redleg]

24. Doesn't she have a fucking job to do?

Bush likes to trot out his women when he's in trouble.

[crossroads]

25. He sure does... like a typical coward!

:eyes:

[Supersedeas]

28. "For some" and "there are some who say", then insert strawman

works everytime on the sheeple

Ofcourse, you can infer "whomever" you want regarding who might take such and such a strawman position, but without actually "CITING" a real person's position--it could mean 'anyone.'

but don't quote me on that...thank you Condi...

actionable intelligence dismissed.