Al Kamen’s In the Loop column in today’s Washington Post has two bits of information about our craptacular Secretary of State. The first piece says that she is going to get blasted in George Tenet’s upcoming tell-all-that-serves-Tenet book.
The drums have begun sounding for the long-awaited book by former CIA director George Tenet, in which he gives his take on pre-9/11 days and on Saddam’s huge cache of weapons of mass destruction.
And the drums are saying that Tenet is not going to get too many Christmas cards from Vice President Cheney’s office after they read “At the Center of the Storm.” Folks from down the river at the Pentagon, including former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz– a guy who’s already going through a rough patch — and former defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, might also get some heartburn.
Former secretary of state Colin Powell comes out fine. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was President Bush’s key adviser in engineering the Iraq invasion, doesn’t come out so fine. Not fine at all.
The second part deals with rumors that Ms. Rice might get her butt shit-canned before Bush’s term of office is over.
Meanwhile, Rice, still working the conservative-talk-show circuit, last week addressed the rumors that she would leave her job as secretary before the end of the Bush era to run for office and to make way for her deputy, John Negroponte, to take over the department.
Rice told host Michael Medved that “I understand American politics very badly. I’ve always said I’m much better at understanding international politics than American politics. I just know that I’ve got a job to do for the rest of this president’s term. That’s what I’m concentrating on. . . . I haven’t thought much about it myself. I’m thinking more about these days how to get other people to hold elections that are free and fair around the world.”
If Ms. Rice is much better at understanding international politics (say, for example, in Iraq) than she is at understanding American politics…
Well…I guess there’s little chance that could run a successful campaign for public office here.
Bush’s three bestest friends (Rice, Gonzales, and Miers) are all incompetent and malevolent buffoons. And then there is that Rove dude…that lost five millions emails. Heckuva job. What a crew!!
If the alternative to Rice is really Iran-Contra criminal Negroponte, I’ll be rooting for Rice to stay the course.
wonder if he’ll have to return that nice bling chimpy gave him?
To call Rice, Rove, and others “incompetent” gives them an out. As if all this was just a matter of relatively innocent inability to do their jobs. No!
Your “malevolent” OTOH was quite correct. Their actions have been quite calculated. Quite deliberate. They know exactly what they are doing. They are gambling that people will believe (at least their solid 29%) that, e.g., Rove just “innocently” “unintentionally” deleted years worth of e-mails on a system it was ILLEGAL for him (knowingly) to be using. Dana Perrino SAID that in speaking to the press. No one challenged her. As usual.
The question is, why is everyone still pussyfooting around these criminals? Giving them cover? I don’t get it.
Rice has always struck me as the sterotypical brown-noser. Her one skill is knowing what she is expected to say. She’ll never get any respect from her “superiors”, but it does get her a nice fancy title and income.
The fallout amongst thieves continues, with yet another self-serving “tells-all” book by a former Bush suckup.
Tenet, of all people, trying to posture as the “straight-shooter”, for God’s sake. After having his nose broken off well up Junior’s bunghole, he’s now getting his own back…har-har, sod the lot of these bastards.
DoJ not responding to subpoena, Rice is called unresponsive to committee hearings and Gonzo is practicing how to say nothing at all in 5000 words or less. On other fronts, FEMA is out a few million for food costs because it can’t plan for a disaster worth a damn. Wolfawitz (sp???) has his girl friend tying up world bank funds. And getting a heck of a salary. Morale is down at the world bank, at the DoJ and on the frontline. Bushie really knows how to cheer up the troops doesn’t he? And those are just the latest fups. Space is limited so all 6 years worth of fups will not be noted here, but are archived for our viewing pleasure in our age! So what to say to my repub senator? Raspberry maybe? Boos?
And now we learn what France knew all along, that THEY had practically handed the plot and all over to the Bushies who sat on the info. But lets face it, without the 9/11, Bush would have fallen on his dry drunk face within that first few months of his presnitsy.