Rice itching to get Iran war going; mocks cleric al-Sadr as coward

[gatorboy]

http://www.thestate.com/nation/story/381847.html

BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Rice, in the Iraqi capital to tout security gains and what she calls an emerging political consensus, said al-Sadr is content to issue threats and edicts from the safety of Iran, where he is studying. Al-Sadr heads an unruly militia that was the main target of an Iraqi government assault in the oil-rich city of Basra last month, and his future role as a spoiler is an open question.

“I know he’s sitting in Iran,” Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr’s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. “I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him,” Rice said. “I guess that’s the message; his followers can go to their deaths and he’s in Iran.”

In a statement on his official Web site, al-Sadr said, “We denounce the visit of U.S. secretary, asking the government to ban the entrance of the terrorists’ occupiers to our pure land.”

The statement asked Iraqis to express their opposition to the visit through peaceful means.

[uppityperson]

1. Huh, sounds like her boss also.

“I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him,”

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. She knows as much about diplomacy as a plumber knows all about gynecology.

[gatorboy]

8. Heh!

[provis99]

3. and Rice proves her bravery how?

By hiding in the White House? When is this god-awful administration going to end?

[bushmeister0]

4. Remember she wants her foreign service employees to volunteer

to go to Baghdad or she'll order them to. "Direct Assignments" is the eupahism they like to use, short of death sentence.

The WaPo:

"At a town hall meeting inside the department last fall, a number of personnel questioned the possibility of forced assignments, saying that diplomats received inadequate training before deploying to Iraq and insufficient medical and psychological care on their return.

The complaints caused a divide within the Foreign Service between those who raised objections and those who criticized them as complainers who were unwilling to undertake risk and made the department look bad.

Rice said yesterday that those who attended the meeting were 'self-selected' and that many of their colleagues were 'absolutely offended' by their remarks. 'I was deeply offended myself and deeply sorry that these people . . . went out of their way to, to my view, cast a very bad light on the Foreign Service,' she told the House committee."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041503145.html

Yes, how dare they say being assigned to the Green Zone is a death sentence!

Huh hu, cry babies, go clean up W.'s mess and make sure to sleep in your PPEs!

[Wizard777]

5. Did Sadr give Bush 48 hour to go into exile?

:rofl:

[bushmeister0]

6. "Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people."

[Wizard777]

7. You can't argue with that.

But that won't stop Dick Cheney from thinking they are his, all his, and don't you even look at 'em!