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Rice Was ‘Uninterested In Advising' Bush Before 9/11

thinkprogress.org — According to New York Times reporter Philip Shenon's new book, Rice was more focused on becoming Bush's buddy before 9/11: "Whatever her job title, Rice seemed uninterested in actually advising the president. Instead, she wanted to be his closest confidante -- specifically on foreign policy -- and to simply translate his words into action."

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ruyen, on 02/05/2008, -2/+11Chevron, she was the President iirc.
Napoleone, on 02/05/2008, -1/+3Studenta, take note. This is a great example of how the truth is kept away from people. They'll attempt to embarrass your curiousity, and make you feel as though you would be on the fringes of society if you questioned conventional wisdom.

Was 9/11 an inside job? I don't know the answer to that. But the question is more than worth exploring.
Napoleone, on 02/05/2008, -4/+6While it is true that many in the 9/11 Truth Movement make some unfounded claims, there is a real need for a new investigation.

Bush delayed forming the 9/11 Commission by over 500 days. Bush refused to testify under oath, with a transcript, or alone. There were serious conflicts of interest within the commission itself. The commission publicly stated that they would NOT seek to hold anyone accountable. The commission focused the bulk of their report on the history of terrorism, rather than on the attack itself. That's equivalent to a Compton detective investigating the history of California's gang violence, instead of focusing on the murder at hand.

Also, the commission was bi-partisan, when it should have been NON-partisan. You had Republicans trying to cover for Bush, and Democrats trying to cover for Clinton. And no one looking out for the truth.

Our government has a well documented history of acting against its people in very disgusting ways. The CIA purposely injected 5 year old orphans with radiation to study the effects. They purposely made black southern man sick with syphilis, without their knowing, and withheld available treatment from them until they died. Our president, Lyndon B. Johnson went before the nation and lied about the Gulf of Tonkin, a false flag operation, in order to get us into a war that eventually killed 4 million Vietnamese and 60,000 American soldiers.

This government of ours has a criminal record. Therefore, it is not above suspicion. Even in a kidnapping the possibility of parental involvement is explored. Government involvement should be explored in this case.

It is not an insult to the victims of 9/11 to want a new investigation, either. Doing so will not open old wounds, it weal heal them. We all need to learn the complete, unvarnished truth of that day and everything that lead up to it.
kp998, on 02/05/2008, -5/+7She needs to go back to EXON or whatever oil company made her. RIP.
inactive, on 02/05/2008, -5/+6This business was old and boring years ago. We all know that terrorists crashed planes into the WTC, and that the government wasn't involved. Let's plz stop being homoz about it, kthxbai.
ScienceDoc, on 02/05/2008, -5/+6She may be one of the most-evil people ever in government. She is not bound by the truth or facts.
BohicaTwentyTwo, on 02/05/2008, -4/+5Gulf of Tonkin was not a false flag.
doctorfungi, on 02/05/2008, -5/+6Students, take note. This is a "gateway" theory to lead you to being a 9/11 conspiracist. They'll offer you up a plausible theory to draw you in, and then they'll say you support all their other insane theories. For example, the way they used Ron Paul.
manicallday, on 02/05/2008, -0/+1I agree. I think that once they started to see the makeup of the cabinet they should have just left. I still don't believe they made Powell make the case for a war that he didn't believe in. I would have left right then.
manicallday, on 02/05/2008, -0/+1This is because Rice didn't have Bush's ear. She like Powell had a completely different viewpoint of the war then the neo-conservatives. At the time Richard Perl, who had been largely ignored in past administrations, strongly convinced Bush that preemptive strikes would lead to democratic peace. Rice, as the polar opposite, believes in the Realist school of thought, which does not promote preemptive strikes, because of the chaos it brings. I've read some of her published work and I really think that she would have suffered the same fate as Powell if she would have stood up at the time. I'm just hoping that she gets her way over Iran.
inactive, on 02/05/2008, -4/+5Sibel Edmonds wouldn't know.
inactive, on 02/05/2008, -1/+1From which shrillary clinton biography did you plagiarize those lines?
yodaj007, on 02/05/2008, -2/+2I would also be uninterested in advising Bush. How do you advise someone who breaks the English language every other sentence?

And does anyone else think they're rubbing cheeks like cats do? Just put some whiskers on her...
Napoleone, on 02/05/2008, -3/+3Sibel Edmonds disagrees with your assessment.
BohicaTwentyTwo, on 02/05/2008, -2/+1Just asking questions = Troofer Lite.
SpickSlayer, on 02/05/2008, -3/+1lol 9/11
madwaxer, on 02/04/2008, -8/+3shocker, and i thought i was the only one wondering why she even spent any time close enough to get offered a job!
Rice and Powell are prob the most disgraceful sellouts on policy ever to walk the WH corridors. but at least Powell left early.
inactive, on 02/05/2008, -7/+1i'd love to see videotape of Bush drilling Rice. hot hot hot!
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