Lawrence O'Donnell Interviews Condi Rice: 'Lawrence, We Can End This Interview Right Now...'

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Interviews Former Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice.

RACHEL MADDOW'S RESPONSE TO THE INTERVIEW: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=581138&mesg_id=581138

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. kudos to Larry. She came off as a petulant flatulent b

itch.

[tabatha]

2. A-know-it-all c

ow

[glarius]

101. She lied saying Canada was part of the coalition...our P.M. refused to join the

attack on Iraq. That was the best thing Chretien ever did as Prime Minister.

[mlevans]

111. She must have got her information from Anne Coulter

who apparently felt Canada also had troops in Viet Nam.

Ann Coulter on Canadian troops in Viet Nam

[glarius]

115. I remember that interview...Coulter wouldn't accept the truth.

n/t

[bjobotts]

130. What a sociopathic liar.We killed and maimed hundreds of thousands unnecessarily?

[bjobotts]

131. Monstrous rationalizations to justify war for profit and power which she lied us into.No conscience

[democracy1st]

3. K & R

[SunDrop23]

4. is she on drugs?!? (nfm)

[Hutzpa]

10. Nah!!

she just eats lots of pretzels.

:evilgrin:

[tavalon]

29. Naw, she's just naturally that arrogant and stupid

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. Condi has been faking it her whole life

This interview is just another example of her skills at "in your face" lying and misdirection. She is just as pathetic and evil as she was during the GW Bush Admin.

[radhika]

94. You nailed it - all pretense and posturing n/t

[butterfly77]

129. She wouldn't answer..

what Iraq had to do with Osama and 911. He also should have asked her if he was such an evil dicator why didn't they go after all of the other evil dicators around the world...

[Warren Stupidity]

6. kindofanasswipe

[grasswire]

7. still shaking her head when lying, I see

I would have thought she could train herself out of that "tell" -- lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

[PatSeg]

26. You got that right

She is a terrible liar. Why she put herself out there when she didn't have to is beyond belief.

I'd forgotten what a despicable human being she was. I think she's actually gotten ruder.

[grasswire]

79. haughty, too

It is a good question why she put herself out for interview. Self-delusion is the only explanation I can come up with.

She believes her own narrative and defends it to protect herself from the truth of the matter, which is that she is a heinous criminal with blood on her hands.

[PatSeg]

96. I remember her pulling that "haughty" crap

on Barbara Boxer during a senate hearing. I'm sure Boxer was thinking the same thing I was, "Who the hell do you think you are? And WHERE do you think you are?" I've seen some really big people show considerable humility before Congress, but not Ms. Rice. She's evidently better than everyone on the planet.

GW has the good sense to keep a low profile. Why can't the rest of that horrendous administration do the same?

[FarLeftFist]

8. I liked how...

Larry told Condi that they didn't have the coalition they wanted and he says they only had about a half dozen then she refutes his statement and she proceeds to only name 5 countries. LOL.

[Devil_Fish]

139. One of them being Canada who wasn't actually a coalition member. NT

[wtmusic]

9. Eesh. Can't even watch that lying criminal.

See you at the Hague, Condi.

[pitchforksandtorches]

11. Condi’s rebuttal here: She is really mad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwb2H-ZWJY

[underpants]

12. "we thought" meaning they believed

they believed themselves

[Grassy Knoll]

13. Don't look at this hand, look at this one........

No wonder why Shrub hired her.

[Gregorian]

14. Condi's Chronic Criminal Denial.

Absolutely pathetic.

And as for the media, these are the questions that should have been forced a number of years ago. Better late than never. Thank you Lawrence O'Donnell.

[bjobotts]

132. She was knee deep in the food for oil scandal she profited from.WAS under investigation

[Jack Sprat]

15. After Sept 11th, we could not allow threats

to materialize, according to Ms Rice. Yet, North Korea was acquiring a nuclear capability through the Pakistani Dr. A. Q. Khan and it was being funded primarily from Saudi Arabian sources. So Team Bush told our CIA and DIA investigators to back off because the Saudis and the Bush Family maintained a special relationship. Even Libya was offered the Khan blueprints and materials but Khadafi abstained. So this contradicts all she said in regard to threats, especially in respect to Saddam Hussein and Iraq who posed no threats. Early in the conversation, she maintained that "the U.S. had been dragged into the war with Iraq thru their invasion of Kuwait." We weren't dragged into any such thing and everybody knows it. Becky Thatcher put a burr up Bush Sr's butt and insisted we protect Kuwait days after the occupation.

[loudsue]

41. Thank you, Jack! So true. DUer researchers and detectives had done an amazing

job of tracking all the illegal goings on concerning nukes, and the bush crime family just looked the other way since they were complicit.

It is deplorable that the country, and the WORLD, is STILL being run by these same criminals behind the scenes. If Obama only had courage to change all that.

Your post reminds me of DU's great research threads.

[bjobotts]

133. "Can't let the proof of nukes come in the form of a smoking gun...?"They knew better.

[bjobotts]

134. Seems the wrong people were waterboarded eh Rice.She deserves no respect.

[pacalo]

16. Rice was irritated because she's unable to answer questions concisely & to the point.

She wanted to be allowed to drone on with her robotic platitudes. I saw nothing wrong with Lawrence's attempts to go on to another question when it was clear that she wasn't going to get to the point.

And she was WRONG to compare Iraq with Libya! Bush used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq for oil. Which Bush official admitted recently that, yeah, it was for oil? Bush's focus wasn't on bin Laden, but on Saddam to settle old scores ("He tried to kill my daddy", Bush admitted). Rice thought she made a big point with that; she's wrong

[Myrina]

45. They wanted Hussein gone, just like OBL, because they're 'disgruntled former employees'

of the BFEE and CIA -- they knew too many secrets, probably had too many reciepts and leftover project plans that could have made some of the very wealthy 'respected' politicians & businessmen VERY nervous.

[A wise Man]

49. Plus she wanted to control

the interview by not answering the questions and never shutting up.Lawrence should have told her to answer the question...answer the question..answer the question. or shut the "F" UP. I wish

[zbdent]

51. What's a longer document, more pages?

The tax code, or the transcript of Republican spin on how something a Democrat does is illegal/immoral, but when a Republican does it, it's okay?

I'd be afraid that Boehner/whomever dropping THAT document onto the floor might set off a shockwave that would make the tsunamis of late look like the effect of a small child peeing in the ocean ...

[JJW]

17. Let her explain this all at the Hague

[rwsanders]

18. What I wish he had done...

When she had said "we can end this interview right now."

I wish he had said "OK get her out of here" (like he did to the birther queen) and told her "if you can't answer the important questions you're irrelevant".

That would have destroyed her smug self-importance.

[Libby2]

113. Me too.

[Auntie Bush]

136. I wish he had said, " Cuse me!" every time she interrupted him.

She was the ruddiest guest I've ever seen on TV. She trumps Trump!
I don't know why her mic wasn't turned off. What an ass!

[tomm2thumbs]

19. Interview Colin Powell & her together and let's see who's answers are truthful

[A wise Man]

50. now that would be

A HEADLINER.

[MrMickeysMom]

20. So, the one percent solution...... a la shriveled ovaries...

She did sport a great necklace, though!

Actually, she was right... they acted on their own intelligence.... and there is not a fucking thing we're willing to do to these war criminals. They're so happy with believing their own shit, they'd die if for one second they stopped believe their own shit.

[live love laugh]

21. WHY did I watch that crap? WHENNNN did Saddam do all the shit Rice purported?

WHY didn't ODonnell just ask her WHEN that shit happened? SHE even said "1991".

The fact is he did do those things--a decade earlier.

It's like going and attacking Germany today for Hitler's travesties.

"Hitler WAS WAS WAS a threat." (So was Japan once upon a time.) But I haven't heard about any oil in Japan or Germany so there.

UGH!!!!

[ejpoeta]

40. exactly. we had the world with us after 9/11 and then we pissed it away

with the bs going after iraq that didn't have anything to do with it. they LIED to the UN.... shouldn't there be something done about that? they lied to the american people.... shouldn't that have been prosecuted???

[rationalcalgarian]

22. What? What? What?

Trying to make a point that they were actually able to "form a coalition" and that most of the world was with the Bush administration, she begins a short list of countries that fought with the US in Iraq and, at 6:42, finishes off with... Canada.

Canada? Really, Condi? Excuse me, Condi? You don't even know who was with you in Iraq??? I seem to remember a certain amount of friction between our two governments at that time when our Prime Minister Chretien stepped out of the cabinet meeting, up to microphone and announced we would NOT be following you into the quagmire because an invasion was not ratified by the UN Security Council.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20030318/canada_iraq_position_030317/

But if you want to go on thinking Canada was part of your "Coalition of the Willing", go ahead. You are entitled to your own fantasies. I just wish Lawrence could have tuned her in, much like a certain other RW harridan got schooled by a journalist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg7IhR0ccgo

[Hissyspit]

23. kick nt

[mackerel]

24. She is sooooooooo very very very fecking boring!

[lob1]

25. She likes to pump up how Saddam used chemical weapons

on the Kurds. What she always fails to mention is that we sold Saddam the chemical weapons.

[Myrina]

46. BINGO!

n/t

[quakerboy]

64. Not "we" generaly, "we" specifically meaning people she worked with in the admin.

That would have been a key point to have introduced to that conversation when she started talking about how Saddam committed war crimes.

[colorado_ufo]

122. Just academically . . .

one might wonder what the Union would have done to the Confederacy (and vice versa) if they had had the technology and the means.

[Johnny Morales]

27. Why is it hosts feel free to treat her this way

I do NOT recall any other Bush team member being treated this way. I wonder if it has to do with her being a woman, seriously.

Sure she was wrong in her positions, but unless I see other Bush officials treated this way this is hypocritical.

Just the other day Wolfowitz (they'll throw flowers) was on TV and he was treated with the utmost nauseating respect.

[AtomicKitten]

28. Actually Lawrence was rather restrained in this interview.

Granted he can be rather overbearing in interviews, however, considering she is and was in this interview entirely full of shit, I thought he leaned in just about right.

[Thornleylv]

30. What?

It sounds like you have never seen lawrence's show before. Please believe me that there are many many reasons to treat her like that other than being a women.
First of all she sent 40,000 U. S. Solders to their death for one mans revenge.
Second she a Repug that in it self makes Her evil.
Third she was the biggest yes women kiss ass to bush that ever was.
On top of that she continues to lie knowingly to protect her reported lover boy.
But not because she is a woman.

[A wise Man]

53. Don't forget

Harriet Myer's.. agreed condi was a kiss ass and "CS'r" Harriet thought Bush was a GOD.

[pscot]

95. 40,000 dead U.S. soldiers?

Ms. Rice sucks, but let's keep things reality based.

[xocet]

105. At Time Index 2:34 in the Video...

My apologies: this reply has been self-deleted for the purposes of moving the response to its proper location.

[xocet]

107. Location Corrected: At Time Index 2:34 in the Video...

Yes, though Condoleezza is definitely double-plus ungood, a reality-based claim were better - casualties are not necessarily fatalities: to wit,

...
Lawrence O'Donnell: "40, 000 casualties later in Iraq...4400 military...American military deaths in Iraq later.... Would you say...?"
Condoleezza Rice: "Sudduh...Saddam Hussein was a threat. He had used...."
...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkiMCLr83oA)

cas·u·al·ty...
–noun, plural -ties.

1. Military .
   
   
   1. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
      
   2. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
   
   
2. one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.
   
   
3. any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event: Their house was a casualty of the fire.
   

...

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/casualty)

[JTFrog]

34. She doesn't deserve respect.

She is some reptilian slime disguised as a woman. She deserves as much respect as she gave this country. Zero. Nada. Zilch. The End.

[truth2power]

35. Are you watching the same interview as I am? O'Donnel shut up and let her talk

numerous times. She's a lying piece of crap. She should be in prison along with all the other Bushco war criminals. :puke:

[Warren Stupidity]

38. Actually she went after Larry.

She attacked the host repeatedly. Odd that you would interpret that as her being mistreated. Also, republican spokespeople are trained in the art of "motor-mouth talkover". A host who does not interrupt quickly has the entire timeslot consumed by circular run-on sentences of meaningless blather.

[Hissyspit]

48. I didn't see the Wolfowitz interview.

Who interviewed her? I shit on him, too.

[A wise Man]

52. Your love for a crazy woman

is admirable. Just as our love for the 3.0000 killed on 9/11 and the 4,000 plus killed in IRAQ on the lies she, Bush and Chenney told America. Get a life...oops sorry you don't have one.

[AlbertCat]

62. Why is it hosts feel free to treat her this way

Yes... O'Donnell was so MEAN to her because she's just a little woman.... a homemaker and mother who's never worked in the "real world"..... oh wait...


Never mind

Maybe he was so mean because she was black?????!!!!




:eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes::eyes:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

63. How many bush officials have granted interviews to Lawrence O'Donnell? nt

[Boudica the Lyoness]

76. She's a fucking killer

and she got away with it. Rice owes an explanation, not only to the American people, but to the whole world.

[grahamhgreen]

84. She refused the answer the questions and was pressed on it, that's all. She lied us into a 3

trillion dollar war that has destroyed our country.

[NewJeffCT]

110. How often are the other Bushies in adversarial interview situations?

I can't recall Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Feith, Gonzo, etc ever even daring go anywhere that they would have to endure tough questions.

[colorado_ufo]

121. Well, geez, I dunno -

Maybe because that's the way Fox news does it, so he figured that's how she would prefer it.

[Keith Bee]

31. Should've become NFL Commish instead

K&R

[Enthusiast]

32. I will not listen to that liar. nt

[lutefisk]

74. I can't watch it either. But if she is ever tried for crimes, I will watch that...nt

[stuart68]

33. I don't watch Larry, so don't know if this was an off day, but

I thought he got his ass handed to him...

Regardless of the facts discussed.

[A Simple Game]

37. I don't like to watch him either.

He is as bad an interviewer as O'Reilly. Just terrible, can't stop listening to himself talk.
He has good points but ends up looking worse than the other person because he can't keep his mouth shut.

Big Ed has the same problem.

[Myrina]

47. Indeed.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[A wise Man]

54. Glad its only 2 of you

[Myrina]

73. Seriously, can't anyone have an opinion other than the freakin' kool aid bandwagon

... here anymore?

What ever happened to original thought?

[A Simple Game]

80. I like Lawrence and Ed's politics.

They are probably the two most liberal hosts on TV. I just don't like their delivery.
They are the Left's O'Reilly and Hannity.

If you like confrontation instead of debate, I'm sure you are happy watching their shows.
But if they don't change their ways they will go the same way as Crossfire.
Stewart is already making fun of Ed.

In the Condi interview, I thought Condi played Lawrence like a baby grand.
She had all the bad answers but made him look like the bad guy because he would not stop talking over her.

[stuart68]

106. so, there's at least 3 of us - last count

Agreed. No use having a good argument if you have no ability to deliver it (if you are a media person). That was my point about him having his ass handed to him.

[on point]

36. One of the war criminals and torture leaders. She belongs in jail

[closeupready]

39. She disgusts me.

:puke:

[Botany]

42. Canada? Right Condi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_–_Iraq

[RoccoR5955]

43. You can tell she's lying...

...because she is moving her lips.

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

[A wise Man]

44. Let's face it......

everyone and i do mean everyone in the Bush administration should be arrested for war crimes and treason. Why is it that suspicion is called theory by rethugs? In a court of law anything that is suspect is investigated. Condi..Bush..Chenney..Rumsfeld..and the attorney general..all should be arrested and tried. Let the courts prove how monsterous they all are.

[deutsey]

57. True, but don't hold your breath. n/t

[hakko936]

55. Lawrence had no intention....

...of letting her answer the questions. He could have done a much better job proving her wrong if he had just let her babble and then hit her with the facts as we now know them.

[leveymg]

56. That lady really digs in her high heels and never budges. She's thoroughly convinced herself,

from years of repetition of the same half-truths and refuses to address the issues that O'Donnell is trying to bring up.

On the other hand, I would have to fault Lawrence for not pressing her about why she chose the intelligence that had been manufactured by the Feith-Wurmser OSP shop and WINPAC to support the lies the White House was telling about WMDs, while the much better-informed CIA/CPD had concluded the aluminum tubes were not suitable for centrifuges and the Niger yellowcake documents were fakes. I also wish Larry had asked Rice about Condi's role in outing Valerie Plame in her AF-1 press gaggle.

[joeglow3]

58. Our side has found it's O'Reilly

Sorry, but I don't know a host invites a guest on only to be an ass. Sure, the ardent supporters get some great masturbation material, but it really turns off the vast majority of us.

[valerief]

60. Not those of us who hate what she's done to Americans. nt

[joeglow3]

68. Exactly my point

The only reason she was invited was to create masturbation material for a select group of people. Same thing O'Reily does for the idiots on the right.

[valerief]

69. So that's why she let herself be interviewed? To provide that for the left?

Why would she do that?

[joeglow3]

100. So your argument is she knew he would react that way, so it is cool?

So, is O'Reilly cool every time he does it, since we clearly know this of him?

[valerief]

108. Just trying to understand your point. So far it's Condi Good, Larry Bad. nt

[joeglow3]

116. Condi can eat a fat one.

All I am saying is that O'Donnell employs many of the same tactics of O'Reilly in terms of treating guests. The difference is the political leanings of the respective parties.

[closeupready]

75. selfdelete

selfdelete

[bluecoat_fan]

59. Her eyes are spooky when she gets pissed

[valerief]

61. So is this oil baby gonna be served up as a Grand Oil Party prez candy?

Is that what this was all about?

Will RW teevee use this interview to elicit sympathy for her from their sheeple?

[loudsue]

65. Evil woman.

Lies. That's all the republicans do. They lie. If their lips are moving, they are lying.

[Maineman]

66. Rice is intelligent and talented, and strong. But she is also an

arrogant right wing propaganda merchant who spreads right wing B.S. I can't stand her.

[AtheistCrusader]

71. I was going to say a 'blood soaked jackal'

but yeah. Pretty much.

[Avant Guardian]

82. I think she is a halfwitted, gullable and weak

...and a pathological liar to boot.

[jorno67]

67. C U Next Tuesday!

[AtheistCrusader]

70. Canada didn't join the Coalition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War

Canada primarily assisted in Afghanistan, had very little to do with Iraq.

[Fire1]

72. Dr. Rice refuses to be bullied and I admire her for that.

In reference to Saddam, they acted upon the intel they were provided. In my view, "everything" is not "rightwing propaganda." Sure, there were mistakes and misteps that she admitted but I certainly didn't expect her to turn into a democrat and bash the administration that she served.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

77. Your Doctor Rice is a fucking killer.

Rice owes an explanation, not only to the American people, but to the whole world.

[Avant Guardian]

78. He was not bullying her, he was confronting her with what REALLY happened

...and every time he stated what we now know to be the truth, she would stop the question. Obviously she knew she could not lie her way out of it, so she got upset instead.

They cherry picked the 'intel' and where they could not do that, they either made it up or went back 4 or 5 years to old intel that fit what they wanted to do. Hindsight is 20/20.

[grasswire]

83. +1 n/t

[grahamhgreen]

85. The woman lied us into a 3 trillion dollar war that destroyed our country. She is the bully.

[BobbyBoring]

88. BULLSHIT

Scott Ritter begged Bush for more time to locate WMD they could not find because they weren't there. Saddam was cooperating with the UN inspectors and turned over 800,000 pages of documentation regarding their weapons programs.

All of these pukes are liars. They wanted war and they got it.

[Forkboy]

99. "Dr. Rice"....lol

[closeupready]

102. LOL, good point.

nt

[rainlillie]

103. This women deserves nothing but contempt and disdain not admiration!

[Jakes Progress]

118. Your dr. rice refuses to testify against herself. I don't admire liars.

She is a liar who has scammed her way to power by kowtowing to rich republicans and pretending to know what she obviously does not.

She is stupid and self-serving. She was way out of her league and way over her head. She only followed the people she was serving. A disgusting woman.

[Avant Guardian]

145. There may be another reason she refuses to answer questions

If she admits any of it she could wind up in the Hague. They keep lying about it to keep their asses out of the hangmans noose for crimes against humanity.

[Jakes Progress]

146. She is damned either way.

Either she is a stupid dolt whose ambition led her to help kill hundreds of thousands or she is a knowing accomplice in those deaths. Either way, she belongs in the dock with the whole crew.

It drives me crazy that places keep naming schools after this cold-blooded killer.

[A wise Man]

120. There weren't mistkes...

they lied intentionally. Look we are talking about lies that KILLED OVER 3,000 PEOPLE ON 9/11 and over 4,000 troops in IRAQ that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. Are you so blind to see that any question of suspicion concerning the DEATH OF THOUSANDS...be it THEORY OR NOT...'MUST BE QUESTIONED AND ANSWERED". If you love that nut then crack that nut to see whats in it. Damn...what is wrong with you????????

[stevenleser]

138. Not right. The most important intel from on the ground weapons inspectors should have stopped war

plans.

[KansDem]

81. Condi doesn't like to be questioned...

Throughout this interview, it was obvious she wanted O'Donnell to ask question for her to answer, but she did want him to follow up with more questions when her answers fell short of the truth. This is the kind of questioning that should have been standard for the last 17 years.

She must have thought all interviewers were like the ones on FOX News...

[grasswire]

86. who are all these wusses that can't take the little woman being..

...asked to answer for her actions??

Do these posters who want to protect Condi understand the kind of questioning she would get in a war crimes trial?

Do they understand that she would be confronted with photos of the carnage, the motherless children, the dead and maimed children, the legless soldiers, the bombed families, the wailing grandmothers, the impoverished millions, and asked to explain herself?

Lawrence O'Donnell was a gnat compared to what she deserves to face for her actions. Bullying?? Hardly.

[rainlillie]

104. AMEN!

[Ikonoklast]

87. Holy crap, is she a bad liar!

Her body language, the head shaking 'No' when she is trying to say 'Yes', and the exact converse, her head shaking 'Yes' when she is saying 'No', are massive tells of being untruthful.

The rapid eye blinking is another 'tell' of being deceitful, or of stress, which can be caused by knowingly lying.


LEO's look for this type of thing all the time.

When one is telling the truth, when you say 'No' you shake your head 'No'.

If you are lying, many times your voice will say 'No', but your head will shake 'Yes'.



Funny how when the body is put under stress by one's mind, it will betray you...

[big lu]

89. K&R

[L0oniX]

90. Just another war criminal who goes off unpunished.

[skypilot]

91. I hate watching interviews like this.

These assholes take advantage of their role as guests on these shows. When they see where the question is heading they jump in to head it off and if the interviewer persists they talk over him knowing that he will eventually defer so as not to appear rude to his guest. The end result is that they get to be rude by interrupting the interviewer, avoiding the real meat of the question, and ultimately running out the clock. Republicans are very good at this.

[wxgeek7]

92. She forgot to mention this

From Wikipedia:

"During the lead-up to war in March 2003, Hans Blix {the head UN inspector} had found no stockpiles of WMD and had made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting 'proactive' but not always the 'immediate' Iraqi cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441. He concluded that it would take 'but months' to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks. The United States asserted this was a breach of Resolution 1441 but failed to convince the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution authorizing the use of force due to lack of evidence."

She also fails to mention that evidence was found in afghanistan back in 2001, that linked Osama to 9/11.

And if Saddam was such a threat due to use of WMD on his own people, how come Bush Sr didn't take him out?

IMHO, I think it was a war fueled by the Isrealis and "Big Oil".

[tropicanarose]

93. How can she possibly compare the invasion of Iraq to the current situation in Libya?

It doesn't make any sense. It is actually frightening.

[stevenleser]

117. I agree, it's asinine, but some here have made the same comparison. n/t

[Lynx]

97. I turned it off

That Rice bitch makes me sick.

[bongbong]

98. What I remember

What I remember as most striking about this particular War Criminal is whenever she went in front of Congress to answer questions. She would sidestep, filibuster, lecture, give useless background, and basically avoid answering the questions for long, long minutes until the particular questioner's parliamentary time limits ran out. She did this every single time I watched her "testify".

[dadzilla]

109. Is it really a suprise?

She has invested her reputation in a lie, one she can't admit as it undercuts her reputation. On one level I almost feel sorry for her, somewhere inside she has to know, even if she can't admit it to herself, she was wrong. She has to know that she was apart of the killing of an untold number of Iraqi civilians and that she helped to unleash that horror. If I didn't feel so much sorrow for them, perhaps I could forgive her a little easier.

[colorado_ufo]

125. A life wasted.

All that talent, intelligence, education, and political capital invested in nothing but "OK-let's-all-keep-our-stories-straight" lies.

The Shoe-Shopper is a direct contrast to the equally talented, intelligent, educated, and politically savvy Hillary Clinton, who is one of the hardest-working people to ever have served her country. Clinton serves her country; Rice has always served only herself.

[happy5]

112. Ugh, literally had to turn it off..

Typical repub fashion, "we can end this interview right here..." perhaps he should have. I literally could not watch it.

Though it is hypocritical of the media to now start openly questioning these morally dubious individuals, everyone knows they are full of BS. She knows she is full of BS, and most likely drowning in her arrogance that no one is actually listening to her.

Kudos to Lawrence for not really letting her off the hook. Dr. Rice, even a small, token admission of "on retrospect, we were wrong" is way overdue. If she had something nice to say about Obama and his administration, I missed it.

[crim son]

114. I do not miss the horror of hearing this kind of bullshit from the people

on whom our lives depend. She is a lying, manipulative and deluded woman who didn't belong in a position of any power. :shudder:

[libodem]

124. True

It's batshit bullshit.

[ErikJ]

119. FoxNation Top Story right now: "Condi Rice Manhandles Sputtering NBC News Anchor"

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Thursday had a highly-contentious interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

"The Last Word" host repeatedly interrupted his guest leading her to say after one such incident, "Lawrence, you have a bad habit with your guests. You never let them answer a question."

http://nation.foxnews.com/condoleezza-rice/2011/05/06/condi-rice-manhandles-sputtering-nbc-news-anchor

[A wise Man]

135. OH YEAH RIGHT

LIKE ANY DEM THAT APPEARS ON FOX HASN'T EXPERIENCE THE SAME TREATMENT.

[MrScorpio]

123. Didn't we give Saddam Hussein those chemical weapons to use against the Iranians in the first place?

And if we allowed him those weapons against the Iranians, why is NOW saying that Saddam was a threat during the time that we supported him?


This woman is a certifiable liar of the first order.

[rainlillie]

128. Yes and we also trained and armed Bin Laden.

[colorado_ufo]

126. She has not aged well.

[rainlillie]

127. For anyone expressing sympathy for the way Lawrence handled her, save if for people who deserve it..

Like I don't know...the American's that were wounded and killed and also for the innocent Iraqi's. Let's not forget the children and spouses who were left behind too. Too damn bad that she was asked a few tough questions. This is why people like her are able to get away with wrongdoing, there's always someone waiting to make excuses for her and make her out to be the victim. She and the corrupt Bush administration have victimized countless number of people.

[liberal N proud]

137. Why did he let her tell the lies that long?

As an interviewer, I would have had a hard time not punching that bitch in the face. I don't punch people in the face.

The lies and the belligerence is astounding.

[sulphurdunn]

140. Understanding Condie one only needs

to channel Babs Bush: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

Rice arrogantly washes her hands of the all the blood on them by projecting all that blood on to all the blood shed by Saddam Hussein.

She's just a war criminal, obviously incapable of reflection or remorse, not a national icon. O'Donnell should have stuck a fork in her and told her to get the fuck off the set when she threatened to end the interview because he wouldn't just let her run her mouth in the manner to which she has become accustomed.

[Aerows]

141. She's a terrible liar

She blinks twice every time she tells a lie.

[Klingon]

142. This MSNBC guy was unprepared

She keeps repeating the same BS the Bushes used to justify the Iraq war. The host should have said that most of them, not just some, were proven exaggerations or lies, according even to Condolezza.

For example, when she keeps saying that she sincerely believed in 2001 that Saddam was a threat to his neighbors and to the US, people should just show her this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wbpKCdkkQ

Next, the "Saddam gassed his own people" story has been destroyed by NY Times articles based on CIA intelligence and analysis on the field. Most or all the gassing was done by Iranian troops that crossed the border into Iraq.

You gotta know and say these things when you interview the big shots, Lawrence. Otherwise they will get away with the same lies again and again.

[suzanner]

143. Too true. I give Laurence credit for trying, but there are

probably only a handful of psychiatrists who would know how to break through that kind of psychic wall in 5 minutes. He should have started with something to put her on a new tangent, referred to Bush as her husband, played the clip where she accidentally referred to him as such, talked about some fettish she is rumored to have... it would have been just as informative.

[grasswire]

144. he could have played an audio clip of the "I Was Not a Nazi Polka"

Lyrics:

--As you travel through Der Schöne Deutschland,
--A melody will greet your ears.
--It's a melody that's been around in Deutschland
--For fifteen to twenty years.

Each and ev'ry German dances to the strain
Of the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
All without exception join in the refrain
Of the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

Göring was a crazy we wanted to deport.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
We all thought that Dachau was just a nice resort.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

The German is so cultured, he does not like to fight.
The peaceful life is what he most enjoys.
For years, the German people were utterly convinced
I. G. Farben manufactured children's toys.

I never shot a Luger or goosed a single step.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

--Was you not an SS guard? --I was not an SS guard.
I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
--Did you not love Ilsa Koch? --I did not love Ilsa Koch.
I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
--Did you not despise the Jews? --I did not; some were my best friends...
I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
--Did you not think Adolf great? --I did not. Adolf who?
--Adolf who! --Ja, Adolf who?
--Fritz, you're putting me on. --Was bedeuten dieses, "Putting me on"?
--Are you kidding me or something? --Nein, I'm not kidding you. Adolf who?
--Adolf Hitler. --Should I know him? Is he a folksinger?
--You don't remember. --Nein, I don't remember him. Who was he?
--Well,...

A little man, very mean, very loud and brash. --Mm-mm.
Not too tall, he never smiled, wore a black mustache. --Nein; I never heard...
He had a girl, Eva Braun, hair as red as flame. --Ah, ja, ja.
He papered walls for many years till his moment came. --Of course!

He's the one who clapped his hands, went into a dance. --Ja!
When the news came to him that we had conquered France. --That's him!
He once said, when our flag proudly was unfurled,
"Today, Germany, tomorrow, the world!"
...tomorrow, the world! ...tomorrow, the world! ...tomorrow, the world!
--I never heard of him. --Neither did I.

To our Israeli allies let us raise a toast.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
Sure there were some Nazis, two or three at most.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

We tried to throw out Hitler right from the very start.
That's what ev'ry hist'ry book should tell.
We hated Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, too.
We believe as Sherman did that war is hell...hell...hell...hell...
...heil!...heil!...Seig heil!...Sieg heil!...Sieg heil!

Germans are as gentle as flowers in the spring.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
Germans are a people who love to dance and sing.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

--Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You there, you are not singing. Did you not like to sing? Tell me, you still have a family in Germany, nicht wahr? Sing.

Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
Sieg heil!



Recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio.