Posted on 01/18/2005 4:38:21 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Goodness! Now he's talking the UN!!! Ungh!
What a jerk.
I knew he would snap at her....
"I know who the fighters are."
:-)
Kerry interrupts again..
Does anyone there have the authority to stand and tell JK to shut the heck up? He is rude, condescending..."I know that. What I'm asking is..."
Yes, Kerry insinuated that. Condi countering him on his points.
Naturally, Kerry has to interrupt Condi.
Kerry: Why have we rebuffed the efforts of others to be involved? Why are we going it alone. THere is a frustration among the global leadership and are we going to change the dynamic and bring others to the table.
Condi: We do have an international coalition - 27 countries soon to be 28. We have contributions from Japan and South Korea, which we did not expect and we need to honor those contributions. I am not aware of Indian peacekeepers in Iraq.
(Don't you know who I am?)
She just called him a liar......whoa.
and Condi slam dunks another one!
That was two years ago!
Oh, she's telling him she doesn't know anything about Russian offers for peacekeepers.
Perhaps the "leaders" he is talking to are LIARS.
Russian? Indian? Swiss? Germans?
Kerry is clueless.
Rice: We have to look at the overall picture of helping a country recover from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.
She is sure we have made mistakes but the decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right one.
She gladly stands by helping the Iraq people overthrow a dictactor and having them become strong and our allies over "buying" stability.
We do have acknowledges difficulties abound. The election is a huge step in the right direction. Iraqis must choose leaders, make political compromises. Our role is focus on what we can do to help them build security forces and their economy.
We can talk about what was forseeable and what was not...Some are disappointed...Allawi trying to siphon them off and redirect to help build economy. We must help them create jobs.
Many who are attacking are not mad because they weren't paid by us (Kerry's charge that we didn't keep promises to pay so they turned against us). Rice says they were Baathists or foreign terrorists who have decided to fight in Iraq. They weren't "sitting drinking tea somewhere".
Kerry: I know all this, what are we going to do? Why have we rebuffed offers of other countries like Russia to help? Why have we decided to "go it alone"? There is a frustration out there.
Rice says she addressed who is fighting due to the previous characterizations. She commences to list some countries that are indeed helping. We need to honor.
Rice says she'll check but she is not aware of Russian offers to send forces (which is exactly what Kerry said). He asks about offers to train or some such? Kerry says the Germans say they can do more. Rice says if so, they only need to say so.
God bless her. I'd want to smack him.
Kerry: The Germans say they want to do more (with the suggestion that we've rebuffed them).
Condi: I assure you they only have to offer and we'll accept.
RE: Russia , India
Yup.....
Kerry: The current policy is growing the insurgency, not diminishing it.
So he's blaming Bush for the terrorists streaming into Iraq? Okaaaaaay.
"My time is up and we're not really finished with it in a sense."
And then a lecture...
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