Bush saw into Putin's soul AFTER Putin told Bush "some KGB story that he made up"

[Cell Whitman]

Glenn Kessler - WP reporter, part of two Pulitzer Prize winning teams and author of "The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy" - said this on C-Span re: Bush seeing into Putin's "soul":

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1752

quoting Kessler:

"(A)t his very first meeting with Putin, Putin told (Bush) a story about a cross that he had blessed in Israel that used to belong to his grandmother. People that are aware of this conversation at the State Department feel that the President got played by Putin. There is no cross. There was just some KGB story that he made up. But it had a real impact on President Bush. That’s when he walked out and said, ‘I looked into his soul and decided this is the guy I can work with.’ And for the longest time in the first term, if you talked to then National Security Adviser Rice, she always painted the relationship with Russia in very rosy terms.…”

[patrice]

1. Rice is the worst possible SoS this man could have had. nt

[WCGreen]

2. But she can play the piano....

[TomInTib]

4. That's her next big gig...

at the Holiday Inn Express.

[patrice]

6. . . . amongst other things, apparently. nt

[tularetom]

3. Ha ha the dumb shit - I knew Putin was playing him like a carp

Betcha Pooty poot and the rest of his commissars (or whatever they call em now) are ROFLTAO everytime they see a picture of the boy king.

And what about that dumbass Rice? she was supposed to be a russian scholar and expert and she fell for it too.

jeebus h christ we've hired friggin MORANS to manage our country for us.

This should piss me off but somehow it just makes me laugh and shake my head.

[Cell Whitman]

5. 10/6/2003 -- """"Rice will manage Iraq's 'new phase' """"

remember this one?

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

10/6/2003

Rice will manage Iraq's 'new phase'
By Judy Keen, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — President Bush is giving his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the authority to manage postwar Iraq and the rebuilding of Afghanistan. ....

"We want to cut through the red tape and make sure that we're getting the assistance there quickly so that they can carry out their priorities," Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said. "It's a new phase, a different phase we're entering."

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. ... Rice is one of Bush's closest confidants, and he has turned to her before to handle high-profile assignments, such as her appointment as liaison to the Middle East. Rice, 48, was a Bush adviser during the 2000 campaign. As national security adviser, she spends more time with him than any staffer except chief of staff Andy Card.

The new structure will give Bush's top White House aides a stronger voice in decisions and will make the president more directly accountable. Because of their close relationship, many people will assume Bush signed off on Rice's decisions. ...

"This new structure will provide higher-level and more focused" support from the federal government to the Pentagon and Bremer, Rice said. "Implementation and operational responsibility will, of course, remain" with them. ...

President Bush also weighed in on the reason for his decision.

Rice "is going to make sure that the efforts continue to be coordinated so that we continue to make progress," Bush said at a news conference with President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. "And listen, we're making good progress in Iraq. Sometimes it's hard to tell it when you listen to the filter" of the news media.

can anyone name one thing she has accomplished successfully? Just one?

[patrice]

7. That's right, she WAS touted as a Russian scholar.

But she doesn't speak Russian ?!?!!!