Posted on 09/20/2008 5:13:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist threats during her nation's darkest hours.
But a new book reveals that she was not so steadfast in facing down her own more personal enemies within the Bush administration.
Instead, Miss Rice was so fazed by former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that she burst into tears at a meeting in the White House situation room.
The floodgates opened for the then national security adviser in February 2004, as the Bush administration was wrestling with growing instability in Iraq and the legal status of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Love that movie. Love it!
And Condi? Rummy could’ve made me cry, too.
*Yawn*
Awesome!
I have ordered Rumsfeld’s book from Amazon. It’s due out end of October and I can’t wait.
As if this wasn’t singled out to print at a time when a woman is on the R ticket.
She will soon fade away to some hob where her skin color will count for more than her intelligence. I guess she couldnt take the heat from Rummy. Crying in a meeting - WOW!!!!!!
He made her cry by not coming to a meeting ? Nonsense .
I’m not feeling it. Sounds like BS.
have to agree (yawn)....Rummy is tough, Condi cried.......this is NEWS?
Baloney - the UK press.
In retrospect I’d rather not have had either as SecState. I’ve always respected General Powell for his public service, and Condi for her grace. However, I have too much fundamental disagreement with them and their leadership style to have them in such a high place in the administration.
When a woman crys it is best to get out of Dodge right then and there because when she stops the real fight is just getting started. They may be crying on the outside but they are thinking at supercomputer speed on the inside.
I hope this is true. Not a big fan of Dr. Rice. She’s too friendly toward Hamas.
And what might those accomplishments be?
I mean accomplishments for our side.
So please do not include the Hezzbollah rearmament and overthrow of the Lenanese government.
prisoenr6
bump
On finding Mr Rumsfeld absent from a second meeting, CIA director George Tenet was so angry that he defied a direct order from Miss Rice to sit down and marched out of the meeting, declaring: "This is bullshit."
The book goes on: "Something happened to Rice's face, control melting away. Her eyes welled up and her next words caught in her throat. The men in the room did not know where to look.
'She started to cry,' said one of them. 'And she said - I can't remember the exact words because I was so shaken - something like: "We will talk about this again," and she turned and walked quickly out of the door.'"
In a biography about Condi Rice called Twice As Good, her stepmother said she had made Condi cry once - "And it shocked me... She went from furiousness to boo hoo." My guess: The crying in these instances comes from emotion overload. Anger, in the case above, may well have been the operative emotion.
I was thinking more of her academic accomplishments, not foreign policy.
BINGO
Not me.
That thought occured to me too, but why would a Brit newspaper be tasked to "plant" the seed of the idea on weak minds? Perhaps I am too naive and simply don't give our domestic "progressives", or Obama's hit squads enough credit to find devious ways.
On the other hand, I'm cynical in not believing in "coincidences."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.