Sitting bravely behind concrete walls while visiting Iraq this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice chose to channel her boss (circa 2003) by responding to Muqtada al-Sadr's latest threat with an official "taunt" from the U.S. government:
A young friend recently served fifteen months as a combat infantryman at an isolated patrol base in the nasty farmlands south of Baghdad.
McClatchy reports: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad Sunday for an unannounced visit one day after the Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr threatened an all-out war against the Iraqi government.
Reading the news lately, there certainly appears to be an unusual amount of activity in many different spheres of power and influence. The Principle players seem to be moving in unison and orchestrating events in rapid succession, as if following a schedule.
Michael Gordon details the fumbling and bungling that went into the "decision" to disband the Iraqi army.
In an incredibly heated exchange today during a U.S. House hearing (see video at left) Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) grilled Sec.
I am a woman of mature years. =) (yes, mature!) I have always been pro the rights of women and yes, I even think that the time has come for a woman to be in the highest office in our country. However, give me a break, folks. Hillary Clinton?? Think back over the years.
WASHINGTON: More and more, top government diplomats are straying from official Bush foreign policy as the administration wanes, leaving secretary of state Condoleezza Rice struggling to keep them in check.
Ken Silverstein, the Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine, shares an email he received from a U.S. government official working in Kurdistan. Here is a select bit:
Precis:: in its struggle for an identity, Kurdistan has become a fateful experiment, exposing the fault lines of a world gone mad. The nation state is failing, has failed: we are left with burning coals and ashes of the legacy of colonial borders.
After years of delay, Russia announced Monday that it had delivered its first shipment of nuclear fuel to a reactor in southern Iran, a move Washington had long tried to delay to pressure Tehran not to pursue its own enrichment program.
Hugo Chávez Title: President of Venezuela Age: 53 Marital status: Divorced twice Interests: Singing, denouncing the imperialist devil, nationalizing key industries Your last chance to snag a world leader, neuroses and all.
"They are welcome to all the money I have in America. Rice should take half of it to improve the way she looks. She should have her teeth straightened and her face fixed, and should make herself look nice.
Shortly after Condoleezza Rice took charge of the 57,000-person State Department in 2005, she said she relished the challenge of "line responsibility" in leading a large organization. "I really enjoy that," she said in an interview.
In pushing for the deal that took Benazir Bhutto back to Pakistan, the Bush administration hoped to build a broader base of support that might help Gen. Pervez Musharraf stay in power.
The United States will review billions of dollars worth of financial assistance to Pakistan following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the constitution and declare a state of emergency, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.
As Condoleezza Rice jets around the world, she must sometimes wonder where she's going. Over her three years as secretary of state, she has squandered great opportunities by putting faith and loyalty above her old worldview.
This Sunday, after Pakastani President Pervez Musharraf "imposed emergency rule and suspended the constitution in a bid to save his job," an adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "saw a silver lining in the rapid turn of events"
For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
Last January, I spent 24 hours in Baghdad with Lieutenant Colonel Steven Miska, an extremely capable deputy brigade commander, who introduced me to some of the Iraqi interpreters on his base.
In August, a 2 a.m. phone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped pull Gen. Pervez Musharraf from the brink of declaring a state of emergency in Pakistan. Two days ago, Rice made a similar plea. This time, the Pakistani president was not swayed.
A federal judge yesterday issued a rare ruling that ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than 10 other prominent current and former government officials to testify on behalf of two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act at their upcoming crimi …
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came under pressure Friday from Turkish leaders seeking American help to curb Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. But it was not clear whether her public pronouncements at the outset of this long-awaited visit would be enough to satisfy them.
PARIS: "No, no. This is stupid," President Nicolas Sarkozy snorted, abruptly unplugging his microphone and calling his press secretary an "imbecile" for setting up an interview with the American television network CBS on a busy day.