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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."
What's he supposed to talk about maddie...losing? Oh yea, take any coach when his team is doing good and he's gonna speak to the sideline interviewer about losing? Oh wait...that WOULD be the rallying call of the dems and maddie and her ilk...they are all a bunch of losers and defeatists so what else would they talk about?????????????
The word victory probably sounds to patriotic for Madelaine. The word is just too patriotic and celebratory for the Democrats, who only want the US not to fail. The new Democrat motto is, "Aim for mediocrity, it will make EVERYONE feel better."
Either way, she and the Clinton administration came up short.
Man, you got that right!
"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."
Too funny! This womans credibility is zero! She is as worthless as a propagandist as she was as Sec State.
Who asked her ?
Talk about agitprop.. What planet is she from.. She lives in a world of her own making.. UNLESS this damage control.. for 2006..
What a pig, does she think Bush should talk about defeat and losing?? Typical liberal, they must think winning wars is "divisive" or something..
This woman's idea of victory is to bomb some innocent Christian nation into the stone age for the benefit of narco-terrorists, white trash, and savages.
lol, now that 's a winning attitude...
Send our military in with hopes of No Winn.
LOL...what do you call it when you have a "visual" with your nose? Cause I just had one!
Worse than Warren Christoper??? (Jimmuh Cahter) Okay, maybe it's a toss-up...
Corrupt hag is projecting ...
Clinton did far more damage to our word lexicon than Bush has evver done. This Albright.. what a tool. I can't believe she was the foreign whatever for my country.
Long Live Bush!
God Bless America!
Victory!!!!!!
I know...awful huh? Just awful. :)
Victory is the word you use after you have Won the War!! Nothing the cleaning lady would know anything about. Wonder if BJ was ever that horny???
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
(Giggles) "I've never been on a date before. So, I'll meet you at the Korean Dog restaurant at 7pm then?"
Wow - we've gotten now to nickpicking the use of one word? Maddie- you're not relevant anymore- got that? Now bug off!
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