Condi Rice, like many people who are in high office or have been in high office, knows how to OBSCURE the truth. That is one of their prime means of getting people to accept their machinations. They do this by many rhetorical techniques. They mix lies with supposed facts, with bits of truth, with exaggerations, with fabrications, with outright lies, with misinterpretations, with omissions, with superficial observations, etc.
One example: Condi says Saddam Hussein “was an implacable enemy of the United States”. This is a total lie. The U.S. supported Iraq against Iran in their war. The U.S. supplied dual-use technology to Iraq. This business where she condemns him for invading his neighbors is utter tripe, because the U.S. was for it.
“A report of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs concluded that the U.S. under the successive presidential administrations sold materials including anthrax, and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992. The chairman of the Senate committee, Don Riegle, said: ‘The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think its a devastating record.’ According to several former officials, the State and Commerce departments promoted trade in such items as a way to boost U.S. exports and acquire political leverage over Hussein.”
Condi says “We have succeeded in replacing a homicidal murderer…” Here she partially quotes George W. Bush, who called him a “homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.” Or was Bush defining himself? Bush also called him a “homicidal tyrant”, another self-definition. And Bush said of Saddam “But my gut feeling about Saddam Hussein is that he is a man who deceives…” Sounds to me like Condi and the whole Bush group of war criminals.
Condi will forever be joined to George Bush as a murderer and torturer. That’s the “we” she speaks of rhetorically. Am I supposed to rejoice that one murderer has replaced another murderer with a puppet government at the cost of at least 100,000 dead Iraqis as collateral damage?
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, if the objective really was to snuff a murderous dictator and we look at the matter at that level (brushing law and the Constitution aside), did the U.S. have to go to war to do it? You mean to tell me that at no time in Saddam’s 24-year reign, it was not possible to kill him, that no weapon or means could be found within the expenditure of trillions on so-called defense?? Don’t make me laugh. The U.S. objective could never have been to remove a murderous dictator, as Condi fabricates. If killing brutal dictators had actually been a policy of the U.S., through the making of wars, the U.S. would have been at continual war with most of its ALLIES! The U.S. objective is to dominate a country; it will do whatever is expedient with respect to a dictator to achieve that goal, be friendly, pay him off, remove him, kill him, whatever it takes.
You see, Condi Rice’s story, her alibi, simply makes no sense!
The woman has the gall to say “You want to talk about a humanitarian disaster” as if the U.S. had clean hands. The U.S. killed hundreds of thousands in Iraq prior to Bush’s attack with its sanctions.
Reading and re-reading her answer, which was a spur of the moment verbal reply, we get excellent insight into her intellect. She came up with boiler plate Bush propaganda at the outset, as if she were pre-programmed. This didn’t require any serious thought on her part or any real soul-searching. She knew she was going to say it was worth it. There would be no real re-assessment coming out of her lips. We’ve heard it all before. The second part is very interesting because of how her mind went to the real reason for the invasion, which is that the Iraq government became a militarily-supplied puppet of the U.S government. Here she reveals some truth. It’s very, very difficult to speak and fabricate continually. There is always some revelation of what one is really thinking. Then at the very end she slips back into the propaganda mode by associating Iraq with Al-Qaeda, a connection that Bush propaganda always made but that was very tenuous. And she also seems to slur the entire Middle East in the bargain.
9:51 am on August 23, 2012
