Posted on 12/31/2005 10:21:56 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
In an interview posted on the Democratic National Committee's web site, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says she doesn't like the way President Bush "repeatedly" talks about achieving victory in the Iraq war.
"I was very troubled recently, particularly by [Bush's] first speech to the Naval Academy," the former top Clinton diplomat complains in a DNC audio webcast.
"They clearly had some kind of a new pollster in the White House tell them that the word 'victory' had to be repeated endlessly," Albright griped. "Plus, [there was] the backdrop that said 'victory' and then there was 'victory' on the podium. I don't know how many times he used the word 'victory.'"
Still, despite her discomfort over President Bush's victory talk, Albright insisted that she and other Democrats really do want the U.S. to prevail in Iraq.
"There's not a Democrat who doesn't want this to work," Albright said. "I think that Democrats are united in not wanting this to fail."
Still, she credited her party with forcing a debate over the question of how President Bush managed to take the country to war without "really having a very good discussion of it."
And Albright complained that it isn't fair for Democrats "to be called unpatriotic simply for asking questions and having a debate."
She also took some pot shots at her successor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, suggesting that her performance during a recent trip to Europe was a diplomatic embarrassment.
Noting that Rice was repeatedly pressed by reporters to clarify U.S. "torture" policy, Albright said, "I don't think it was a trip that was particularly the one that she had in mind."
"Given the fact that it's being written that she has a great deal of influence with the president, she may have come back and said, 'You know, this was not a great trip - we've got to do something.'"
The former top Clinton diplomat suggested that Dr. Rice may be in over her head, telling the DNC: "I think that you would have had to have been really asleep at the switch not to know what a very hard trip she had and one presumes that others in the White House read the newspapers and could see she had a very hard trip."
The academic types think she's a genius. Columbia University magazine had a cover story about her wonderful contributions as Sec.of State, etc.
She's bird brain, and that's an insult to the birds. She's stuck on stupid, so the leftist lunatics love her.
This is the idiot that dragged the other Zombie like cabinet members of Slicks adminstration, to appear on camera, and say they believed the disgraced liar when he said, I did not have blah, blah,blah.......Shut the hell up fatso,we are all sick of your lies too!
Condi Rice is not Madeliene Albright's successor. Colin Powell was Madeliene Albright's successor. Don't newspapers have editors anymore?
Dont forget Cohen,Podesta,Hillary,Reich and each of the others and oh Lewinsky, that was real judgment and morals at work!
Wasn't Rice Albright's father's protege? I think this sniping at Condi is profoundly personal.
To a perpetual loser, the concept of victory doesn't compute.
Oh!
That's great!
Thank you!
It seems Maddy has her knickers in a wad. ;o)
GREAT PIC George! Everyone is smilin'
I thank God (seriously) that we survived his eight years of debauchery and incompetence.
the old broad isn't the same ever since yasser isn't around to grab her ass in the oval office.
That's why I'm one of that rare breed--roadies.
Happy New Year!
Oh, I don't know, about as many times as the Democrats used the word "gravitas" about the Bush-Cheney ticket.
Corksuckers.
Maddy talks too much.
Whatever happened to Golden, Silent Retirement?
Mad Maddy and her socialist brethren gave us 'no score' little league baseball.
They would love to give us 'no score' global conflict.
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