Our secretary of state and former Chevron oil tanker, Condoleezza Rice, appeared on 60 Minutes last night. She talked about terrorism with Katie Couric before taking us for a run on her treadmill, then playing a little Brahms or Led Zeppelin for us on her piano.
The oil tanker related how she learned of terrorism at a very early age with the bombing by racists that killed four little girls at a church just two miles from her Birmingham home. Here then are some excerpts of what Rice had to say:
"These were innocent children, this was homegrown terrorism, I know a little bit of what it's like to have somebody try to terrorize a community. These little girls weren't gonna hurt anybody. They didn't have any political power. This was just meant to terrorize the community."
Couric then asked if Rice sees a connection between those bigoted bombers who killed innocent little girls in Birmingham and the suicide bombers in the Middle East, ignoring the worst terrorists responsible for the most deaths, our very own government. Rice responded:
"Sure," she replied. "Because the people who commit terror against innocents do it for the same purpose. Some people say well they do it to prove a political point. Then why go after little girls? Or innocent people standing at a bus stop in Britain or in Madrid?" (Or Fallujah, Dada adds.)
"And it's the worst kind of inhumanity to just go after innocent people who are just going about their daily lives like those little girls who were just in the bathroom after Sunday school," Rice says. (Dada: Or preparing for another school day in Ramadi?)
Well, it was around that time I dove for the remote. Froth was evident in the corners of my mouth, formed at Oil Tanker's inability to realize her own terrorism in the estimated 100,000 plus civilian Iraqis killed at her own hands.
As noted during the interview, the oil tanker is a deeply religious person. This no doubt goes far toward explaining her compulsion to kill huge numbers of innocent persons, I suppose.
Of the Iraqis, Rice asked, "What's wrong with assistance so that people can have their full and complete right to the very liberties and freedoms that we enjoy?...it's not the matter of being the boss of them. It's speaking for people who are voiceless," Rice said.
"Because we killed them," she neglected to add.
5 comments:
well that's what you get for tunring the tube on - grin
sorry, just trying to lighten things up
she is an idiot....sh speaks the words she has been taught to speak and nothing more...
watch the documentary 'why we fight' -- it explains exactly what you are hearing what you are hearing...and who is actually behind this...
I cannot even begin to state how much that woman makes my belly churn! The whole executive branch smells to high heaven.
As long as you're doin' the work of The Lord, it doesn't matter how many people you kill. You can still sleep soundly at night, knowing that you did your best.
She is a piece of work, huh. Talk about playing the race card! The Repugs must be desperate.
Hey, Condi...if you love democracy so much, why do you and your homeboy ship in more bombs to oust freely elected entities like Hamas and Hezbollah, that your own iron fist policies made so popular? And then they get even more kudos for cleaning up after the mess? Birthpangs of a new Mideast my ass -- I only wish New Orleans could have had the advantage of as swift a response and rebuild as southern Lebannon.
Abuse and neglect...we don't let a drunk in a trailerpark treat his wife and kids the way our government (and its foreign dogsbodies) treat everyone from the working middle class here to the dirt-poor everywhere.
I want to see COPS DC. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you, bad boyz?
Dada, I didn't want to sully your beautiful taos post with this & it seems much more appropriate to Condi anyway. In fact, it almost seems like a play-book for the whole bush gang's iraq policy today :
After the civil war, General Carleton sent Kit Carson to tell the Navajo not to resist white encroachment on their lands any longer. Tell them this, Carleton instructed Carson, "You have deceived us too often, robbed & murdered our people too long, to trust you again at large in your own country. This war shall be pursued against you if it takes years, now that we've begun, until you cease to exist, or move. There can be no other talk on the subject." Carson then initiated a scorched earth policy against the Navajo.
wow, i sure hope history isn't repeating itself. D.K.
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