Accept no substitutes. Ask for the real Dr. Rice.
Posted on 08/10/2004 10:03:15 AM PDT by JulieRNR21
Senior Kerry Advisor's Disgraceful National Security Record
In a move made almost as quietly as a man sneaking classified documents out in his socks, John Kerry has a new "Senior Advisor for National Security Affairs".
Her name is Dr. Susan E. Rice, and she takes over that position from Sandy "Indadvertently" Berger whose idea of covert action is grabbing sensitive national secuirty documents and stuffing them in his Fruit of the Loom's.
Make sure you "cache" the above link about Ms. Rice's position with the Kerry campaign, as those descriptions tend to disappear once the person proves to be and embarrassing disgrace, like Sandy Burglar.We think this decision by Kerry is important, because if Dr. Rice's name isn't familiar to you, it should be. Along with Sandy Berger and Madeline Albright's she was a key partner in the Clinton administration's appeasement of Osama Bin Laden and played a major role in the decision to refuse Sudan's offer to hand over Bin Laden in 1996-1997.
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Any president's most important decisions are those he makes when appointing individuals to fill key national security positions. In a post 9/11 world, those appointments offer a window into the president's strategy and approach to fighting the war on terror.
Before getting caught like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar, Sandy Burglar was thought of as a potential Secretary of State in a Kerry administration. Since that is now politically untenable (even for Democrats), Kerry chose Susan Rice to take over Berger's position in the campaign, leading to speculation that she would be Kerry's National Security Advisor.
If Ms. Rice is in line for such a promotion, be very afraid. Why? Because according to multiple sources, including former Clinton official Mansoor Ijaz and Richard Miniter, author of the bestseller Losing Bin Laden, it was she who was a major opponent of accepting Sudan's offer to turn over the world's most wanted mass murderer. At the time, Rice was the Clinton Administration's Secretary of State for African Affairs and a former assistant National Security Advisor under Sandy Berger.
According the both Ijaz and Miniter, Rice's personal beliefs on the Sudan's credibility led to her convincing Berger to reject their offer to turn over Bin Laden, overruling the advice of Tim Carney, then ambassador to Sudan.
Her partner in this colossal error in judgment? Bush hater Richard Clarke. Sadly, a little more than a year later, Bin Laden's murderers blew up the African embassies, killing US soldiers and citizens. And while we all know it, the Kerry people need to keep in mind the event known as 9/11. We say that because nobody who remembers that awful day could possibly call for "neighborhood watches" to fight terror.
Further, it appears that Ms. Rice's judgment has not gotten any better over the years. Before jumping on the "Anybody But Bush" bandwagon, er, the Kerry campaign, Ms. Rice was a key advisor for none other than anti-war conspiracy nut, Howard Dean. Just a year ago, she was backing the Dean claim that the capture of Saddam has not made America safer.
In a further example of Ms. Rice's poor judgment, and her inability to see things staring her smack dab in the face, she is one of the few people still vouching for Joe Wilson's credibility long after everyone else realized that not even vultures could find any shred of credibility on the Wilson carcass.
One absolutely shudders with the thought of this woman being in charge of our national security. She has been behind the curve and wrong on just about every issue on which she's gone on record. The fact that she has the Osama cloud hanging over her head, and her shilling for Howard Dean should automatically disqualify her from being anywhere near a position of influence in national security affairs. Yet, John Kerry, in another episode of poor and unexplainable judgment chooses to put Ms. Rice front and center to the public as his national security mouthpiece.
President Bush has assembled perhaps the strongest foreign policy team ever. Think about it. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell (though we disagree w/ him on numerous issues) are all people who know that in a post 9-11 world the fight must be taken to the terrorists and clearly see the danger of doing nothing in the face of a grave threat.
On the other side, you have the John Kerry model of a "law enforcement" type strategy to fight terror, being carried out by the likes of previous appeasers and retreads like Sandy Berger, John Edwards, Susan Rice, Madeline Albright and Richard Clarke.
Let's hope the adults stay in charge.
"President Bush has assembled perhaps the strongest foreign policy team ever. Think about it. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell (though we disagree w/ him on numerous issues) are all people who know that in a post 9-11 world the fight must be taken to the terrorists and clearly see the danger of doing nothing in the face of a grave threat."
"On the other side, you have the John Kerry model of a "law enforcement" type strategy to fight terror, being carried out by the likes of previous appeasers and retreads like Sandy Berger, John Edwards, Susan Rice, Madeline Albright and Richard Clarke."
"Let's hope the adults stay in charge."
(My comments) And let's work to make sure they do for the sake of our children & grandchildren...........Julie
(Apologies to Yogi Berra)
Who wants to make the first "Rice up his butt" joke?
ALERT......Kerry now has the incompetent Dr. Suan Rice replacing 'Sock Stuffer' Sandy Burglar as Senior National Security Advisor.....So Kerry's got his own Dr. Rice .....but this one has a very poor record.....as you will learn from this article.........PING
Ping..................
http://www.thehill.com/under_dome/080404.aspx
Either way, it’s a Rice from Stanford
No matter who wins the presidential election in November, the next White House national security adviser probably will be a telegenic African-American woman with ties to Stanford University whose last name is Rice.
That’s because Sen. John Kerry’s new senior adviser on national security is Susan Rice, a member of the National Security Council and assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Clinton administration who is on leave from the Brookings Institution, where she is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies.
Rice, a 1986 Stanford graduate and Rhodes scholar with a doctorate from Oxford University, was front and center at the Democratic convention in Boston.
Rice, 39, is the daughter of Lois Dickson Rice, a retired business executive, and Emmet Rice, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
Susan Rice made it clear in an interview with the Stanford alumni magazine in 2000 that she doesn’t suffer fools gladly. “I guess you can say I’m plain-spoken,” she said. “I can be diplomatic when I have to be. But I don’t have a lot of patience for B.S.” Or for “horses---!” which is how she reacted to criticism of the African policy she promoted in the Clinton administration.
Of course, if President Bush wins reelection, former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice — who’s not related to Susan — will still be running the National Security Council, providing she doesn’t become commissioner of the National Football League.
Nice find bump.
I wonder if the classified documents went from Berger's pants to her panties...
Accept no substitutes. Ask for the real Dr. Rice.
He hired a Dr. Rice for a National Security Adviser???
He is soooooooooooooooo Obvious
Did you hear about Kerry's "religious adviser" kerfluffle?
I heard he had to let his second pick go also
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".... Rice was the Clinton Administration's Secretary of State for African Affairs "
Oh!! One of the clintonista's that brought attention to SUDAN???? NOT!! Isn't it interesting that all of Kerry's "advisors" etc. are Clinton people? We didn't get rid of that regime....like any bad relative, they just KEEP coming back. One has to wonder what kind of "deal" the Kerry's and Clinton's have worked out.....
Isn't it interesting that all of Kerry's "advisors" etc. are Clinton people? We didn't get rid of that regime....like any bad relative, they just KEEP coming back. One has to wonder what kind of "deal" the Kerry's and Clinton's have worked out.....
FYI......PING
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Thanks, Julie! We'll need to watch to make sure Kerry doesn't attempt to overlap and confuse the Dr. Rices when it would prove beneficial to him.
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