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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on December 01, 2008, 07:52:02 AM
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(http://www.planetroxy.com/tiki/article_image.php?id=196)
An ex-National Security Council member and former assistant secretary of state, Susan Rice brings the resume of a Rhodes Scholar-turned-diplomat to the team as she becomes the US face at the United Nations.
The Washington-bred Rice -- no relation to outgoing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- served as member of the national security council during the administration of president Bill Clinton.
She worked as a top foreign policy advisor to the campaign of president-elect Barack Obama prior to her latest appointment; indeed despite far-reaching ties to the Clinton administration, she joined Team Obama when Hillary Clinton was widely seen as frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
Obama's selection of a close ally Rice to represent the United States at the world body may be a sign of how the incoming administration will prioritize strained US-UN ties.
Susan Rice, who received her doctorate from Oxford University in England, and who served as an Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has had some on-the-job experience with Al-Qaeda. She was top US diplomat for African issues during the 1998 terrorist bombings of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
Often described as straight-talking, arguably not unlike her mentor former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, the politically well-connected Rice in 1997 became one of the youngest assistant secretaries of state.
She was a Rhodes Scholar in 2000, and was honored with the NSC's Samuel Nelson Drew Memorial Award for distinguished contributions to the formation of peaceful, cooperative relationships between nations, and US security policy for global peace.
She may well come under some fire from lawmakers considering her for confirmation for her part in US policy toward Rwanda during the 1994 genocide; Bill Clinton's US administration stayed on the sidelines -- an experience she has said made her more committed to action in the face of crises.
Rice has been a firm and vocal critic of President George W. Bush's handling of the situation in Darfur.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081130190149.e554shiz&show_article=1
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Rice has been a firm and vocal critic of President George W. Bush's handling of the situation in Darfur.
Well my fellow military brothers and sisters...guess where we're going next. :thatsright:
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Well my fellow military brothers and sisters...guess where we're going next. :thatsright:
But, but, the US should use it's military might for strictly humanitarian reason, not national security purposes. (end DU mode)
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Well my fellow military brothers and sisters...guess where we're going next. :thatsright:
It won't be so bad. You'll have the very latest in military equipment, a Swiss army knife and a mo-ped. what else do you need? STUPID moonbat/mode off ....off .....off ....OFF DAMMIT!
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I saw a news story this morning that said that Jughead is going to make the U.N. Ambassador a cabinet post again.
Ya'know it worked out SOOOOO well when Clinton was bowing before the alter of the U.N. and dispatching troops based on where CNN was bitching about human rights issues. :whatever:
The organization is a travesty.
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He is on TV now...introducing all of them...Hillary just spoke.....Obama introduced her as "my dear friend, Hillary"... :puke:
I have NBC on...in the corner is the DOW....dropped over 400 in an hour and a half already today.....
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Often described as straight-talking, arguably not unlike her mentor former secretary of state Madeleine Albright...
We're goat-****ed...
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We're goat-****ed...
Given a choice between Madeleine Albright and a goat.....I'd take the goat.
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Well my fellow military brothers and sisters...guess where we're going next. :thatsright:
not really, do you think he's going to invade sudan for darfur? (the prevailing regime are the ones perpetrating the genocide) look for several rounds of concerned hand-wringing and attempted economic sanctions (how do you sanction an economy that is barely there?), with a net result of zero.
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not really, do you think he's going to invade sudan for darfur? (the prevailing regime are the ones perpetrating the genocide) look for several rounds of concerned hand-wringing and attempted economic sanctions (how do you sanction an economy that is barely there?), with a net result of zero.
No what I think he'll do is like what Clinton did in Somalia...send our soldiers there under some half-assed "Peace Keeping" force under the control of the U.N.
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No what I think he'll do is like what Clinton did in Somalia...send our soldiers there under some half-assed "Peace Keeping" force under the control of the U.N.
Don't forget about the convoluted, cluster-**** of a ROE package, guaranteed to generate an incident to make "BlackHawk Down" look like an antebellum tea party. :banghead:
The deployment that has me scared shitless at the moment is the 20,000 combat troops being brought into US territory for "peace-keeping" operations. (still clicking around, looking for a good link to that. Source I heard quoted on Glenn Beck this morning is Stars and Stripes though.)
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Don't forget about the convoluted, cluster-**** of a ROE package, guaranteed to generate an incident to make "BlackHawk Down" look like an antebellum tea party. :banghead:
Don't remind me. I still have my ROE card somehwere from my time in Mogadishu.
The deployment that has me scared shitless at the moment is the 20,000 combat troops being brought into US territory for "peace-keeping" operations. (still clicking around, looking for a good link to that. Source I heard quoted on Glenn Beck this morning is Stars and Stripes though.)
Does Raw Story count as a credible source? :uhsure:
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Just found the WaPo article.
LINK (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html)
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Just found the WaPo article.
LINK (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html)
so much for Posse Comatus....
just like Lincoln using the Army as his personal goons....
I predict the military will be visiting Kenya to help his pal there.
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so much for Posse Comatus....
just like Lincoln using the Army as his personal goons....
I predict the military will be visiting Kenya to help his pal there.
Posse Comitatus - like the Constitution's restrictions on the powers of the Federal Government - are for mere mortals. Such trivial things do not factor into the Indomitable WILL of the Messiah.
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Looks like Obama and Dr Rice might have some 'splainin' to do......
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/obamas-un-pick-is-responsible-for-911/
...The same can’t be said of Rice, however, at least according to several of her former colleagues, who say she deserves a hefty portion of blame for the fact that Osama bin Laden wasn’t neutralized during the 1990s.
“The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan,†one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.
Richard Miniter, author of the book “Losing bin Laden,†concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
In November 2003, Miniter told World Magazine that while Sudan was anxious to turn bin Laden over to the U.S., Rice - then a member of Clinton’s National Security Council - questioned Khartoum’s credibility.
“Rice [cited] the suffering of Christians [in Sudan] as one reason that she doubted the integrity of the Sudanese offers,†said Miniter. “But her analysis largely overlooked the view of U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Tim Carney, who argued for calling Khartoum’s bluff.â€
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From the first link:
Susan Rice, who received her doctorate from Oxford University in England, and who served as an Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, has had some on-the-job experience with Al-Qaeda. She was top US diplomat for African issues during the 1998 terrorist bombings of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
That one there could be read a bazillion different ways.
Where were you, Dr. Rice, when the bombs went off? What had you done to ensure that the ambassadors in both Tanzania and Kenya had all the information they needed to properly secure their respective embassies?
What the **** were you doing, Dr. Rice? Polishing your toenails?