Rice calls Hamas 'resistance movement'

WND ^ | June 26, 2007 | Aaron Klein

[bobby.223]

couldn’t have said it better. at one time I was one of those who would not have minded her as the next POTUS. boy was I wrong and about bush also.

[SJackson]

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Rather sad, but here it is.

[diverteach]

“I used to like the lady.”

Me too. I had high hopes for her. I’ll still admire her accomplishments (other than SOS) as an African American woman.

Now I’d rate her down with Bush and congress.

[Salem]

"...What the hell happened to her?..."

The Arabists Among Us
[Posted at Free Republic]

[kinoxi]

She has accomplished much. She was a serious VP contendor at one point IMO. Turning into ‘Carter incarnate’ in the middle east and with regards to islam in general has destroyed any chance of high ranking elected office IMO.

[firebrand]

This is not the U.S. government. This is the State Department. Embarrasing now that Dr. Rice has gone native. Bush can’t really fire her.

[familyop]

It’s worse than sad. It provokes anger.

[Salem]

The extremely close relationship between Ms. Rice and President Bush is well known. Bush would do well at one of their White House dinners to reevaluate her priorities in regard to terrorism and the importance of definitions.

[familyop]

"I don’t hear many here at FR advocating her candidacy for POTUS anymore.....She went to Foggy Bottom and ‘went native’!"

And it goes on.

http://www.state.gov/t/isn/isab/

International Security Advisory Board (ISAB)

The Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (formerly called the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board (ACNAB)) provides the Department with independent insight and advice on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, international security, and related aspects of public diplomacy. The ISAB is sponsored and overseen by the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. The Board provides its recommendations directly to the Secretary of State. The Board currently has 20 members and is chartered to have up to 25. Board members are national security experts with scientific, military, diplomatic, and political backgrounds. The Board meets in a plenary session on a quarterly basis.

Updated: April 19, 2007

http://www.state.gov/t/isn/isab/c17650.htm

Board Members

— Senator Fred Thompson (Chairman)
— Dr. Michael R. Anastasio
— Dr. Kathleen Bailey
— Dr. Ashton B. Carter
— Ms. Alison B. Fortier
— Dr. William Graham
— Amb. Robert Joseph
— Mr. Mitchel B. Kugler
— Dr. Ronald F. Lehman, II
— Vice Admiral Robert R. Monroe, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
— Dr. Gordon C. Oehler
— Dr. Keith B. Payne
— Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
— Senator Charles S. Robb
— Dr. C. Paul Robinson
— Dr. Amy Sands
— Dr. James R. Schlesinger
— Dr. William Schneider, Jr
— Dr. William Van Cleave
— Mr. R. James Woolsey

[pissant]

Rice has jumped the shark.

[cowdog77]

She should go back to doing what she does best: playing Brahms.”
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Agreed........she couldn’t have possible done a worse job.
(I’ve never understood why we would send a black woman to a male-dominant society like the Middle East and expect any kind of progress in diplomacy whatsoever!)

[rmlew]

I would need the full quote.
HaMaS translates to The Islamic Resistance Movement, so she may just have been calling it by its formal name. However, if she was not, this is a suicidal error. Hamas does not just want Israel. It's charter also speaks of Al Andalus, i.e. Spain.

[Gideon T. Reader]

HAMAS is much closer to a bowel movement than it is to a "resistance movement".
Sec.Rice is what can be expected when the unknowing and unresponsive appoint the ill informed and ill prepared.
Condi Rice’s ability and knowledge regarding the Middle East is similar to MY knowledge of how a U.S.Senator is able to look in a mirror each day, without vomiting.

[Cacique]

Dumb RINO

[kenth]

Too, Lady Thatcher would have scoffed at the idea that the Palis would vote for a non-violent regime, and wouldn’t have been surprised at all at the election of Hamas.

[Salem]

Ms. Rice, a refresher course:

This is a HAMAS terrorist. He kills innocent Jews and their children, because the Koran teaches him to. When not killing innocent Jews, they are brutalizing women or killing Fatah terrorists for fun, while picking up Fatah guns which have never been fired and only dropped once.

This is an American patriot, a Minuteman, who killed fully armed British redcoats who were genuinely oppressing the colonists. He did this so other people could live free. They then went forward to build the greatest country that has existed in the recorded history of man.

There is no moral equivalence between the two whatsoever.

[justiceseeker93]

Rice shouldn't be hanging out with Zuckerman and his New York Daily News reporters to begin with. Zuckerman is a devout Clintonista Dummycrat who wouldn't endorse the current administration's policy under any circumstances. Apparently Rice caught some pro-terrorist virus from being around too many lefties lately.

[bobby.223]

best post of the month.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

I used to have a lot of respect for her.