Rice: Single women can understand war

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Rice: Single women can understand war

By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer 7 minutes ago

Condoleezza Rice let out a heavy sigh when asked Saturday whether as a single woman with no children she had difficulty appreciating the ramifications of war. It's a topic that has inflamed the Internet and talk radio in the U.S. since a Democratic senator challenged the secretary of state's personal stake in the Iraq war.

"No," Rice answered when asked if her status hinders her understanding of the sacrifices involved. "I also think that being a single woman does not in any way make me incapable of understanding not just those sacrifices but also that nothing of value is ever won without sacrifice."

Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., told Rice during a testy Senate hearing on Thursday that without an immediate family Rice will pay no personal price for the Bush administration policy in Iraq.

Rice has said she was at first perplexed by the exchange, and later told Fox News, "Gee, I thought single women had come further than that."

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Boxer of hitting "below the ovaries."

Standing with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Rice jokingly noted that as a woman with children, Livni is qualified to "make the decisions."

Livni leapt to Rice's defense, saying Rice's strong emotions about the Iraq war toll are clear during their private conversations.

Rice, 52, has never married. She is an only child and her parents are dead.

[depressed in 06]

Amen. God bless you.

[Churchillspirit]

She had a little more "war" than most of us, when she was a child.

Excellent point.

[Churchillspirit]

By bird-brain Boxer's logic there should be no male gynecologists.

[polymuser]

Boxer was HR's brother's mother-in-law? How quaint. So, how are they related to Pelosi or Reid or Murtha or Frank or Dean or...?

[no dems]

She had a little more "war" than most of us, when she was a child.

Ohhhhh. That's good! She should have thrown that in Babs face.

[Albion Wilde]

Poor Barbara: In 1994, her daughter, Nicole Boxer, married Tony Rodham, brother of then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a ceremony at the White House. The couple had one son, Zachary, and divorced in 2000.

Let's hope that's as close as anyone in the Barbara Boxer universe ever gets to living in the White House.

[Albion Wilde]

Single women can understand war But no one can stand Boxer "underwear"...

We need to find a competent Republican candidate named "Brief." Then the contest will truly be "Boxer or Brief?"

[Albion Wilde]

Hmm...my senator is Maria Cantwell, (D-WA), single, childless.... Can she vote on Iraq issues??? I think Babs owes Maria an apology....

Yep, and I've got Barbara Mikulski, D-MD. Guess she's not capable of making a decision, either.

[gogeo]

I wonder if Babs would like to apply the principle to cops?