Rice to warn Europe to back off over detainees

[kpete]

Rice to warn Europe to back off over detainees By Saul Hudson


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to give allies in Europe a response next week to their pressure over Washington's treatment of terrorism suspects: back off.

The European Union has demanded that Washington address the allegations to allay fears of illegal U.S. practices. The concerns are rampant in among the European public and parliaments, already critical of U.S. prisoner-abuse scandals in Iraq and Guantanamo, Cuba.

She will remind allies they themselves have been cooperating in U.S. operations and tell them to do more to win over their publics as a way to deflect criticism directed at the United States, diplomats and U.S. officials said.

U.S. diplomats recount how her successful stance against EU plans to lift an arms embargo against China unnerved Europeans, as she sternly told them not to sell weapons that could end up being aimed at U.S. forces in Asia.

One foreign minister spilled his drink when she delivered that warning over coffee in Brussels, a senior U.S. official said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051202/pl_nm/security_europe_rice_dc

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Damn I hate these fascist

and lets see who else said this? Oh yes Adolph hitler, this is an internal matter. truly disgusting

[Skidmore]

2. Well, hell, let's just declare war on Yrup and then turn

around and point our sights on South America.

What is wrong with these people? Being belligerent with whole world is not a smart thing to do. I'm waiting for everyone else to get together and unload a can of whoopass on us. With large portions of our military overseas, we'd be hardpressed to defend the homeland.

[VaYallaDawg]

9. Yeah! They need a regime change anyway.

Who's that feller who's the preznit of Yrup anyway?

[EuroObserver]

13. Think about your supply routes for a start... n/t

[Skidmore]

14. Really. These idiots are so beyond stupid it is mindnumbing.

[sui generis]

3. oh I hope they give her the smackdown

What fucking right do we have to tell anyone in Europe to do anything.

It will be perceived as just the arrogant braying of another arrogant ass.

This secretary of state understands absolutely NOTHING about western european culture. Nothing.

:popcorn:

[indepat]

4. Madame Secretary going to tell our European allies to f*ck off?

[Hubert Flottz]

17. She does what the Office Of Special Planning tells her to do...

Like Powell did! If they tell her to lie she does it like Powell did. If they tell her to bully someone she does it like Powell did. The difference between her and Powell is, that Powell had a tiny bit of class and a tiny bit of a soul left. Condie is a willing WAR CRIMINAL if she upholds torture. I think the Bush Gang is working 24/7 on the Final Solution to the Arab "Problem."

[Ioo]

5. I knew she had balls! How dare they!

Why do Republicans hate America

[HereSince1628]

6. As in back off or else...theU.S. will refer to you as cheese and chocolate

eaters? Or pershaps the truly insulting, _OLD_ Europa?
Maybe the US will suggest that your Beaujolais and Guiness have gone to your head? THAT WILL WRECK YOUR ECONOMIES JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!

Watch out. Condi is mad and she is a @!#$* when she is mad!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. WTF??

Since WHEN did America become the world police?

If I were a European country, I'd tell Rice to fuck off!

[Supersedeas]

8. Somebody wants to associate fear of Rice with spilling a drink-propoganda?

[Disturbed]

12. Hypocristy at it's highest level.

“You can’t allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them, because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die,” Condoleezza Rice

[librechik]

10. ahh--yes, let's escalate the outrage

that'll go over big

[MisterP]

11. nice people don't steal elections and start wars of world conquest...

[Skip Intro]

15. Who the hell does she think she is? Warn them - or what?

What is the regime going to do, attack Europe?

what a pig

[insane_cratic_gal]

16. Why doesn't she tell US to back off

the 70 percent who disagree with torture.. United States Citizens!

The Bush administration sickens me! I've never been so ashamed to be an American then now. For the assholes who'd tell me to move out.. you get the fuck out, and the leave country to those who truly honor what America is suppose to stand for.

Never has an administration ignored popular opinion and they will go down in flames over it too. I think even another year is too long to wait.. nm 3 more. They need to go now!

[understandinglife]

18. I thought war criminals did not have diplomatic immunity ... Psst Condi

... you better vacation at Camp David or Crawford TX ....


Peace.

[Rob H.]

19. What the hell?!

"She will remind allies they themselves have been cooperating in U.S. operations and tell them to do more to win over their publics as a way to deflect criticism directed at the United States, diplomats and U.S. officials said." (Emphasis mine)

I hope our European friends have the good sense to tell her to fuck off and to remind her that they don't give a rat's ass what she wants them to do. (A simple "You first" might get the job done just as well.)

Edited for shpelling.

[It was not a pretzel]

20. this is why the US needs a massive defence budget

because the US wants to take on everyone 'till the only people left on the planet are bushbots. And when there's no-one left to kill, the US will attack itself.

[Rex]

21. Fuck her

she should be in jail. Fucking stupid traitor.

[dkofos]

22. EU to condi

FUCK YOU

[Don Claybrook]

23. They need to impose sanctions on us

The EU needs to deny landing and flyover rights. They should send our diplomats packing, disengage from military exercises. Something, anything. The rest of the world won't allow us to be bullies forever, so they may as well start with the takedown sooner rather than later.

And just why in the hell would ANYONE, foreign or domestic, EVER listen to us again about democracy and freedom and so on? We're trying to cover up our human rights abuses throughout the world by threatening Europe and telling them that they had better get their populations under control. If you missed that part of the article, it's very telling.

(deleted this part, because talk of rifle butts and skulls just isn't productive)

[chat_noir]

24. can't wait to hear how this plays in the European media

:nuke:

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. That's the response? "We wouldn't lie to you"?

"Tell your populations they should be more pro-torture anyway"? Shit, this is depressing. It's as plain as a pikestaff that the CIA is torturing a lot of people in secret prisons, and wants to torture more. I want some European government to get down to business and produce documentary evidence, and take it to the United Nations. I want the guilty European countries censured by the EU. I want the torture chambers torn down.

[donheld]

26. Europe needs to tell Condi and cabal where to get off

:nuke: