Unlike YOU I don't judge public servants by their resume. Dubyette, the C-student and numnutz, has a sterling resume bought for him by Poppy and Poppy's friends. I don't know or care what Condie did at Stanford which, I'm sure, she did 100% by herself LOL with the entire University and its many professors, students and alumni just sitting back on their heels. How does fund raising translate into NSA?
Did you know that she couldn't get her husband Dubyette to give her what she really wanted: Sec of Defense? Then again, could she be any worse than Rummy? Are there any actual professionals in this administration?
I judge public servants BY WHAT THEY DO.
Rice is a Russian expert who was looking for the nonexistent Cold War while she arrogantly and stupidly ignored AQ before 911. Her comments during the hearings were ridiculous.
She whined that no one had told her what to do and when to do it when SHE was supposed to be the high level manager. It was a stunningly whining, childish, unprofessional attitude.
She's widely considered the most incompetent NSA ever and, as Sec of State, she's maybe sorta perhaps going to the ME but not to meet with both sides (unless something's changed since yesterday). So what is she doing in her job other than wearing boots and showing up for the occasional photo op?
I suspect: NOTHING.
guardian.co.uk
"...He turned the project over to Rice, who never presented him with a plan of how to achieve it. "He said that Condi would ride herd on this process. She never even saddled up," said Leverett. Six months earlier, Rice had appointed neoconservative Elliott Abrams as her Middle East coordinator on the national security council, and he threw up obstacles to prevent the road map from going forward. Bush, for his part, never followed up on his own rhetoric and was utterly absent from the policy making. So Leverett decided he must quit: "I didn't want to stick around for a charade."
On terrorism, Rice insists Bush wanted a strategy rather than to be "swatting flies". But the strategy that lay on her desk unimplemented on September 11 was virtually the same as the one presented to her by the NSC counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, on January 25 2001. On that fateful September 11, Rice was to deliver a speech on the administration priorities that stressed missile defence and not terrorism. Now, she will not release the full text of that speech.
The story of the Middle East debacle, like that of the pre-9/11 terrorism fiasco, reveals the inner workings of Bush's White House: the president -aggressive and manipulated, ignorant of his own policies and their consequences, negligent; the secretary of state - proud, instinctively subordinate, constantly in retreat; the vice-president - as Richelieu, conniving, at the head of a neoconservative cabal, the power behind the throne; the national security adviser - seemingly open, even vulnerable, posing as the honest broker, but deceitful and derelict, an underhanded lightweight....
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Why are you so much in love with incompetence, greed, deception and theft?
Don't you have enough respect for yourself that you demand more of your employees in office? Don't you? |
