In an earlier article, I described george bush as a bull in an American china shop, insinuating that he, and his crackerjack team, headlined by Dick Cheney, condoleezza rice and Donald Rumsfeld have damaged or destroyed everything that they have come into contact with!

Oh, and let’s not forget “Bush’s Brain,” Karl Rove, who, if there is any juctice in the world. will be making a star appearance before Congress on his way to the peniteniary.

Earlier today I receive my Fourth of July present as I watched the evening news featuring George Bush being severely jeered by a crowd of patriots at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. How fitting and certainly poetic justice in action!

For our nation’s birthday, The Lang Report wishes to give a very special July Fourth Fuck-up Award to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for being making the statement, “I am proud of the decision to invade Iraq.”

In an interview with Bloomberg TV yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was unable to acknowledge the failure of Iraq. “We tend to forget very quickly what Saddam Hussein meant. … In the post 9/11 environment, you couldn’t let a threat to international peace and stability like that remain.” 

This lady is some piece of work! Several months ago the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism released a study finding that the Bush administration made “at least 935 false statements” preceding the invasion of Iraq. Condoleezza Rice, who served as National Security Adviser at the time, made 56 false statements.

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) pressed Rice to explain the inconsistencies, asking “isn’t it true that you had intelligence that cast doubt on your repeated claims?” “No, it’s not true,” replied Rice tersely.

Wexler then pointed out that Rice was lying when she said it was “not true” and that there had been “intelligence that cast doubt” on the administration’s pre-war claims:

WEXLER: I simply asked if you had intelligence that was contrary to the intelligence that you reported repeatedly to the American people…

RICE: Congressman, I would…

WEXLER: … that Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction.

RICE: Congressman, I would suggest that you go back and read the key judgments of 2002. I think that will answer your question.

WEXLER: Yes. And the answer to the question, Madam Secretary, is that, in fact, there were contrary reports. You chose to weigh the reports.

Here is the Video my Congressman, Robert Wexler confronting “Condi” with the TRUTH

Yes, it’s been very, very tough. But I know that great historical events go through difficult phases and often emerge with the world left for the better. And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis.

Rice tends to forget what she thought of Iraq prior to 9/11. In July 2001, Rice said on CNN: “In terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let’s remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him and His military forces have not been rebuilt.” 

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she’s “proud” of the U.S. decision to wage the Iraq war and insisted that the world is not more dangerous than it was when George Bush took office.

Maybe Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda are not more dangerous, however our detested President George “Dubya” Bush” and his “YES BITCH” have certainly proven to be extremely dangerous….even toxic!

“And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein,” said Rice, who was Bush’s national security adviser at the time of the March 2003 invasion. As of yesterday, 4,107 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and more than 30,000 were wounded. She said the Iraq war has been “tougher than any of us really dreamed.”

Rice, who backs the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain, said she “thought it was great” when the Democratic race came down to a woman and a black man. “I didn’t think it was surprising,” she said.

People abroad are “fascinated” by Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Rice added when asked what effect Obama’s candidacy is having around the world.

“But I’ll tell you something. Ultimately, whoever is elected president of the United States will represent the United States, not as a black president or as a woman president or as a black secretary of state or as a woman secretary of state, but the United States of America,” Rice said.

North Korea

Rice, with only seven months left as secretary of state, has a wide diplomatic agenda, trying to make progress toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and a North Korean nuclear disarmament deal while trying to persuade Iran to accept incentives to abandon uranium enrichment, a process, once mastered, that could lead to a nuclear bomb.

While Rice was in Asia last week, North Korea submitted an inventory of nuclear plants and material to China, and the U.S. moved to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The Bush administration was hammered by conservative critics, including House Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who called the deal “cause for profound concern.”

In the interview, Rice cited as progress that the North Koreans were “putting themselves out of the business of making plutonium” even as many U.S. sanctions remain in place.

“So with all due respect to those who look at this deal and say somehow North Korea has gotten a great deal, I think one can say that this is a really good step for non-proliferation,” Rice added.

China

On China, Rice said the Chinese were being “somewhat more helpful on Darfur.” Demonstrations over China’s support for the Sudanese leadership in Khartoum as it wages war with rebel groups in the Darfur region, as well as China’s rule in Tibet and its treatment of the Dalai Lama, could overshadow the Olympic Games, which open in Beijing August 8.

Rice reiterated that Bush plans to attend the games, even as some human rights activists have urged him to boycott the event. “The president has been very clear that the Olympics is a sporting event and he’s going to go to it as a sporting event,” Rice said. In Beijing earlier this week, she said she’d be keen to watch some Olympic basketball and track-and-field competitions.

Iran, Pakistan

Asked if she thought it would be a mistake for Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran over its nuclear program, Rice said the Israelis have been willing to work with the U.S. on a diplomatic solution.

“They, too, believe that it’s possible to deal with this diplomatically. But we better have really robust diplomacy in order to deal with this threat because the Iranians are making progress,” she said.

Rice said she believed Iran, which the administration has accused of funneling weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq, had “vulnerabilities” in Iraq that the U.S. could exploit. She did not specify what they were.

Rice defended the Bush administration’s policies when asked about a June 30 New York Times report that al-Qaeda, since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has successfully shifted its base of operations from Afghanistan to Pakistan’s tribal areas and has rebuilt much of its ability to attack.

Rice, acknowledging there are policy debates within the administration on how to confront al-Qaeda, said many of the terrorist group’s leaders are “either in custody or they’re dead.”

`Certain Strengths’

“Yes, it has certain strengths and continues to have certain strengths in this area that is very difficult for anyone to govern and very difficult for anyone to operate in. But there have been successes there too,” Rice said.

Rice, who has been suggested as a possible McCain running mate, has said repeatedly that she has no plans to seek elected office and will return to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where she was provost, after the end of the administration in January 2009.

She has said may write another book on foreign policy. And in the interview she noted: “I have been very active in educational causes before, particularly for underprivileged kids. That’s what I’ll go back and do.”

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