Thursday, May 11, 2006

Condi and Iran

". . .Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice freely admits that she responded to President Ahmadinejad's letter to the U.S. before it was translated into English. I kid you not. Via liberalcatnip (who found it here), which Raw Story found and blasted across the web. It's quite possibly the most categorically ignorant statement yet to come out of Condi the Incompetent.

That is after the whopper that no one thought terrorists would fly planes into buildings, when a study said that indeed could happen: "I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon. That they would try to use an airplane as a missile? A hijacked airplane as a missile? All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking." Kristin Breitweiser's response was that Rice was either lying or she was incompetent. Sounds like a twofer to me.

Then there was the statement about "mushroom clouds" that was made up out of whole cloth. We all thought it couldn't get any worse after her admission that the PDB was entitled Bin Laden to Attack in U.S. Oh, and let us not forget what she said after Hamas won the elections: "I've asked why nobody saw it coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse." How this woman got to be secretary of state is one of the ten wonders of the political world.

But that she is so utterly wreckless with regard to Iran is flatly unacceptable. Secretary Rice evidently didn't even bother having President Ahmadinejad's letter translated before she responded. That's right, it wasn't important to know what the Iranian president said, because Condi knew what to say before she even read the contents."

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