Here's your 'brilliant" Condi clueless as ever.
Clueless Condi Rides Again
by sarabeth at 6:00 am on May 29th, 2008 in Bush Man Date, Iraq War, Rice
Our Condi is in Stockholm doing whatever it is that Secretaries of State do when they’re not achieving world peace, but she wasn’t going to let that stop her from joining in wholeheartedly in the “stomp McClellan” loyalty ritual.
However, it is virtually impossible for Condi Rice, Ph.D., to do anything right. So here’s one of the things she proclaimed:
“It was not the United States of America alone that believed that he had weapons of mass destruction that he was hiding,” Rice said, dismissing suggestions that the administration knew the intelligence was incorrect.
“The story is there for everyone to see, you can’t now transplant yourself into the present and say we should have know what we in fact did not know in 2001 and 2002,” she said. “The record on weapons of mass destruction was one that appeared to be very clear.”
Those who were skeptical should have spoken up at the time and argued against U.N. sanctions such as the oil-for-food program, she said.
Someone please sit her down and explain to her that the oil-for-food program wasn’t a U.N. sanction, it was a humanitarian exception to the U.N. sanctions.
And it wasn’t just a one-time slip of the tongue. She really thinks the oil-for-food program was an economic burden imposed on the Iraqi people:
“You can agree or disagree about the decision to liberate Iraq in 2003, but I would really ask that if you … believe he was not a threat to the international community, then why in the world were you allowing the Iraqi people to suffer under the terms of oil-for-food.”
Not knowing the difference between an economic sanction and an exception to economic sanctions wasn’t the only bizarre aspect of her statement. What on earth could the oil-for-food program possibly have to do with weapons of mass destruction and the Bush administration’s case for war? The oil-for-food program “was introduced by United States President Bill Clinton’s administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War.”
Condi clearly believes that the oil-for-food program was introduced during the lead-up to the Iraq war, when the U.N. was trying to use sanctions as a means to get Saddam to come clean about WMDs.
Surely by now, as she nears the end of her glorious tenure as Secretary of State, our Condi should have learned to get at least the most basic things right? |
