NYT- Rice Says She and Bush 'Strongly' Support Rumsfeld

[maddezmom]

ASHINGTON, May 8 - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld retains "the strongest possible support" from President Bush and the White House, the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said Saturday, a day after Mr. Rumsfeld testified for six hours in Congress about the abuse by Americans of Iraqi prisoners.

"The president strongly supports Donald Rumsfeld and so do his colleagues, and I strongly support him," Ms. Rice said in an interview. "He's doing a good job as secretary of defense in one of the most challenging periods in American history.


Separately on Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney said through his spokesman, Kevin Kellems, that "Don Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. People ought to let him do his job." The remarks, which Mr. Kellems offered to The New York Times, were Mr. Cheney's first public words of support for Mr. Rumsfeld, one of his oldest friends.

Asked about the calls for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation, Ms. Rice said that "what the president expects, and what the secretary's doing, is getting to the bottom of what's happened. This is an awful situation." She added that Mr. Rumsfeld was making changes "to fix the problem."

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More:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/international/09rice.html

Guess the UNSTICKER is back to work.........this seals it for me, Rummy must resign.

[MikeG]

1. Both Condi and her Husb

[Just Me]

35. Hey,...it's the new and improved "Power Cheney Bunch"!!!

To replace "The Brady Bunch" on TVs everywhere.

It's a story,...
About a greedy Cheney,...
Who had three decades of decandence on his own,...
Then one day he and Busholini got together,...
And called their corporatism America's home,...

[warrior1]

2. Good

hug him tightly to your breast and kiss him.

This will keep this story alive.

[Mom_and_Dad]

3. Best SecDef ever!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Dick must be sharing * pretzels

[grytpype]

10. Best ever, biotch!

Got that? Any other Secretary of Defense would have screwed up this situation! OK, clear now, everyone?

[newyawker99]

31. Hi Mom_and_Dad!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[pinto]

4. Candi Mouth:"this is an awful situation" ????? It's effin' despicable.

Go home, go back to UCLA and make some honest money, whatever.

[TankLV]

19. Translation: "It's awful we got caught and this hurts bunkerboy's

reselection efforts".

[calimary]

25. EEEEEEWWWWWWWWW! Don't send her back here!

She is not welcome!!!

[LiberalFighter]

36. She came out of Stanford

[54anickel]

5. I'll agree with her on this line, but she left a couple of key players off

the list.

Ms. Rice, who has had a history of tension with Mr. Rumsfeld over Iraq and the occupation, said in the interview on Saturday that the responsibility for the occupation, which has been marred by continued bloodshed and political unrest, lay not just with the Pentagon and Mr. Rumsfeld, but with the president's entire national security team.

Should have ended at the word president.

[calimary]

26. His "entire national security team"?

Uh, gee, contradicta, would that also mean YOU? You are the HEAD of that aforementioned "entire national security team."

You are also THE point-person on Iraq. bush named YOU, over rummy, to oversee the coordination of the Iraq adventure and reconstruction, did he not?

Yet another thing that YOU were put in charge of, and that YOU royally, egregiously, and spectacularly F-ed Up.

[maddezmom]

6. "The way to send a signal, and to show the world that we .....

take this seriously, is to act, and to have our actions be commensurate with the very grievous nature of this," Ms. Rice said. "We know the seriousness of this. But the way you deal with this, the way you send a signal, is that you show how strong democracies react when something like this happens."


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So what is the signal Condi, how are you going to act...............to show we are strong??? Our(US)standing in the World community is lower than pig shit about now.

[Tellurian]

33. maybe she should give up 'acting' and sending strong signals...nt

[Darranar]

7. War criminals supporting other war criminals....

They ALL should resign.

[stevedeshazer]

8. Why hasn't the Unsticker fired Rummy yet?

Keeping him on can only mean that they are all going down with the ship.

Or, that they've done their polling.

[RC]

9. How to fix the problem?

Take away e-mail, digital cameras and cell phones from the troops.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

11. Good! Keep on strongly supporting Rummy! It will have more impact...

...when he's impeached. I wonder how "strong" their support will be when the Iraqi rape videos hit the Internet?

Once again, we see the Bushies' inability to admit mistakes as a central component in their ever increasing publicity debacles.

JB

[ewagner]

12. WAIT A MINUTE!!!!

Didn't Bush* put Condi in charge of Iraq?/??????

Just exactly what has she done?

If she's in charge and not rummy, then who should be apologizing??????


Did we forget this?

[leQ]

17. i think that's the plan.... maybe they won't remember.

n/t

[pacifictiger]

13. well of course she supports him -

they put HER in charge of the civilian authority in Iraq back in October - he goes, she goes.

[deacon]

14. They strongly support him--as a scapegoat n/t

[truthisfreedom]

15. it's not an "awful situation," sleezy... it's the WORST POSSIBLE SITUATION

IMAGINABLE. idiot.

[Name removed]

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[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. I guess Rummy told them that he had his own pictures and vidoes...

...that he would release to the public if they didn't start backing him up.

[kskiska]

20. Never entered our minds

A White House official said that Mr. Bush had not extensively discussed Mr. Rumsfeld's case at Camp David on Saturday. The official, asked if Mr. Bush would ever accept Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation, replied, "It's just not even a viable question."

[DustMolecule]

24. .

.

[Beetwasher]

21. We Couldn't Have Asked for a Better Response!

Thanks Chimpy! Keep it up!

[grasswire]

22. But Condi was put in charge of Iraq

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-10-06-rice-iraq_x.htm

The last time Rummy was in trouble, Bush "gave" Iraq to Condi to oversee.

"Rice will head the Iraq Stabilization Group, which will have coordinating committees on counterterrorism, economic development, political affairs and media messages. Each committee will be headed by a Rice deputy and include representatives of the State, Defense and Treasury departments and the CIA."

[calimary]

27. Damn! Too bad they didn't make her bush's election campaign chair.

Let her run that. With her track record of being asleep at the switch, screwing everything up that she touches, making a complete mess of everything she's put in charge of, Dr. Do-Little would be a superb campaign chair. That would guarantee a landslide loss for the bushies if she were in charge. Too bad it didn't happen. I swear, her Reverse Midas Touch rivals bush's own. I've never seen anyone botch so many important assignments, and SO gravely, too.

It would be interesting to chart her track record from here on. I'd venture to say that if anything gets screwed up, chances are you'll discover she had something major to do with it.

[cliss]

23. Really? She could have fooled me.

Remember a few months ago, when Rummy was in yet more trouble because of his mouth. Rummy was in the doghouse. Condi, apparently was the Teacher's Pet. SHE was going to be given complete control over managing Iraq.

I've read that they don't get along. Then again, who could get along with that dude.

[opihimoimoi]

28. That means they condone cover up and evasion when asked questions

Does Rummy know too much? Maybe a stroke or cardio probs coming up soon?

[Malva Zebrina]

29. all I can think of is "insane" They are all insane

delusional and insisting upon foisting this false world on the entire country and insisting it is absolutely correct--they are unassailable

and unapproachable.





I am so saddened over the deaths of all the poor, innocent people who were murdered by this Keystone cop, gang of murderers and these crooks who stole our country, invaded the White House, turned it into a nightmare of a horror show, with props they manufactured. I am so saddened that our young people had to die for these slimes--for nothing.

Where did Bush vacation this weekend?

[Disturbed]

30. They are God's Warriors

They can do no wrong! It's only a few bad apples and isolated incidents that are not BushCo's fault. America is the beacon of freedom and BushCo are good,honorable, God loving freedom fighters. The Iraqis will forgive BushCo quickly because all but a few Iraqis love freedom.

[BeHereNow]

32. Dance Conda-sleezah! Dance!

Dance as fast as you can cause the curtain is coming
down on your act and SOON.
Get the hook, boys!
BHN

[indepat]

34. I'm absolutely shocked , but not surprised