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Fred, Bos,
Totally agree with u. Sorry,but I meant "Bush's freedom/democracy" sarcastically. Thanks.

If you really want to know who planned Iraq war and personally benefited from it check this youtube link and then google for PNAC. Take note that this is a 1994 clip of Cheney discussing why it would have been stupid to invade Eye-rack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I&eurl=

Amazed? The only amazing part is that Cheney is still in charge and is planning yet another war on Iran to boost his friends’ coffers. That is also an indictment on the average American brain which your democracy and freedom has given you. It just shows that they all knew the full story and planned it all the way. Blame the dirty bits on Syrians, Eye-rakees, Eye-ranians, Eye-yatullahs and any half wit who lives in Afghanistan caves. Make up stories, honour our troops, cause chaos, etc. Who bothers to check? We have no lesser person than Bliar on our side. After all it comes from the best of US news stations. I heard it on TV, CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, KFC, FOX. Right? Yeh, right! Did I say Fox, oops never trust a fox especially if you are a lamb!

Who said it was a conspiracy! Go back to your couch and keep watching that FOX all you lame lambs. Enjoy your KFC slimmer meal. Wanna a Diet Coke with that?

OR BE A VOICE FOR CHANGE & PEACE.

Asim:
Quoting "for Bush's freedom and democracy?"
While I do agree with your comments above I take exception to your notion of Bush's freedom drive.
It has never ever been about freedom and democracy.
The US and Israelis can not possibly afford a scant of democracy in the region for if it would put the 62 years of injustice done in the occupied Palestine in the spotlight permanently as well as the region's natural resources being looted by the West, primarily the US, too.
the Bush's drive into Iraq has always been about the three letters word. Oil, oil and more oil.
God bless.

Leslie,
I really wonder what brand of misguided Christianity and Freedom you believe in-it looks like Bush's destructive crusading Christianity.

I can care less about Condi's faith:why does not her "Christian faith" reflect on her deeds and actions? Condi is a hypocrate: what has she achieved as a secretary of state? Jet set,red carpets, photo sessions and fancy dinners.

Is this the same Condi who promoted the Israeli barbarities on Lebanon last year and described that destruction as "the birth bangs of a new middle east?"

What has her "Christian faith" done to the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs(Muslims and Christians)under the brutal racist apartheid Jewish theocracy in Palestine, while they, the Palestinians are starved to submission because they are resisting a 60-year occupation, the longest in modern history.

Is she the same Condi who loudly supported the disastrous war on Iraq and its destruction: nearly a million Iraqis have perished for Bush's freedom and democracy? Five million Iraqis are either refugees outside Iraq or displaced within Iraq. We never heard of civil strife, or of Sunnis and Shia, until Bush and his gang including "this woman of faith" decided to destroy a country and its people.

What has Condi done for America and the American people? Substantial contribution and support to kill over five thousand Americans-including American civil contractors-and tens of thousands maimed,trillions of US taxpayers money and a destruction of American credibility in the world.

Condi is no more than a ruthless and grand hypocrite and a power hungry politician-and not different from the likes of Cheney and Rove-otherwise how is it that she is so close to Bush.

Foreign Policy is the most potent and effective tool to serve America:Condi failed miserably as Secertary of State.

MIKE :

You took words out of my mouth.

My question is why the hell should we care, how deeply, these sorry excuses for human beings, believe in Bronze age myths and fables?

Did Jeremiah advocate ETHNIC CLEANSING of iraqis?
So far 1 million iraqis have perished in this war.
Overall over 3 million people in the middle east have perished in - liberating kuwait and liberating Lebanon by israel -
Not to mention the ulimate ethnic cleansing of palestinians for over 60 years.

BULLXXXX

So, Codo-leasing Rights is also God inspired to do what Joshua did? Is it any wonder that some Muslims also believe BinLaden is God-sent. Question: who is this God that seem to support both camps?

Perhaps next we see you Yanks paint Bush standing hand-in-hand with Jesus.

One hand on the Bible,
One hand on the gun.

You say you love the baby,
But then you crucify the man.

Some word I remember from Jim Croce's old song. Seems like you have not changed much, except that you now put the Bible in Bush/Rice's hand and the gun in Jesus' hand.

Shame on you.

Audrey,

What does Ms. Rice's being black have to do with anything at all in the world?

Do you see everything in life only in terms of a ghettoized black view?

If a black serial killer set a new record for slaughtering women, would you hold that up to children as some kind of an extraordinary accomplishment?

BTW, Do you know any white people?

One thing that helped me turn away fron the Democratic Party is their bias & their failure to be fair.They might not be in agreement with the politics of great people like Ms. Rice and Judge Thomas, however it is imperitive that our black leaders give them the respect that they are due for their achievements. They should use these two individuals as examples to our kids.This, they too can achieve with hard work, integrity and faith in God. Our kids should know that they don't have to be rap stars or sports icon to achieve the American Dream. Instesd of embracing these incredable bright and brave people, they demonize them. What a SHAME Black Democrats!!!

Remarkably, Condi is all sorts of things but the most important she is NOT is. . . effective. Can anyone point to any successes she has had -- a single one? -- as National Security Advisor and now Sec. of State? None. Not one. She may be a good and faithful servant, but a servant who nonetheless does her job extremely ineptly.

Watching all these lefties heads explode when Giuliani hammers Hillary into Next Week in 2008 will be a treat, especially since Rice will probably be his running mate.

The average guy is turned off by hate, people. However, it's what we're counting on from the Dems next year!

Re: missiongwp

Excellent!

Re: Well done, good and faithful servant

Yup, responsible for the deaths of thousands.

Potentially responsible for the deaths of thousands more if the drum beat against Iran heats up.

And you call this poor example of African American womanhood a good and faithful servant.

More like satan's handmaiden!

most of you posters
you're like a mad mob who'd like nothing better than to stone Ms Rice if you had a chance,and enjoy doing it.
She's an amazing woman of high intelligence who's
in an impossible job with impossible goals,and she's doing the best she can.She just threw in with the wrong crowd.
Why'd you all enjoy tearing people to pieces for?
You sound like a christian mob looking to hang someone.

"a nation where anything’s possible through Christ."

Excuse me, Ms. Montgomery. That phrase is horrendously bad Christianity, not to mention bad constitutional principle.

Christ is ruler of the universe, not just of the USA. If something is possible THROUGH CHRIST, it is possible anywhere, not just in America. And separation of church and state means we have NO business invoking Christ's name on our political system.

Isolating verses from Jeremiah and reading them like horoscopes or fortune cookies is also bad Christianity. It would behoove you and other faith-based Republicans to go back and read Jeremiah in context: a book where the prophet weeps over his nation because of the corruption and arrogance of those in power.

We won't change the world through Christ. We will change the world when we elect mature, intelligent leaders, and when they appoint a competent staff.

We've killed and maimed tens, possibly hundreds of thousands innocent men, women, and children with this war. And yet you drone on as if in some detached, narcotized haze, unconcerned about Rice's role in this tragic fiasco.

When you join the real world, we will welcome you, for there is much work to do.

Many people have overcomed the trials and tribulations of the Rice family. This is a glowing description of a person that enabled the deaths of thousands of American soldiers through non existent WMD's. A person who stood silent while the prestige of America was sullied by torture and denial of Habeas Corpus. A person who's ultimate loyalty lies with a person so obviously unfit to lead this country and not the country itself. If these are Christian values, please keep them to yourself. The rest of us have had enough.

you have entered into a place on the same level as a mad max movie when you decided to write here. GOD bless you.

The Devil's Handmaiden? More like the Idiot's Enabler. When we needed someone solid to stand in front of Cheney and Rumsfeld, and back up Powell, she folded like a lawn chair. Jeremiah did not have her in mind, sadly.

Do ya think there was stuff like this written about Hitler in Germany?

This woman is so dumb and so arrogant and no matter how many times she gets everything wrong, she acts like she's God's gift and fools like this twink-christian-author and the Washington Post continue to reinforce her status as a role model.

Yeah, she's the greatest leader since William Bennett and his "Book of Virtues."

Shame on all of you. You are as bad as Islamic Fundamentalists and as dumb as dirt.

Now, as I recall, the Post also recommended invading Iraq.

How about this scripture: "When there is no vision, the people will perish."

Take the newspaper away from your eyes, now is the time for your tears.

"Katherine! Katherine!"

Please come back and rescue these fools from themselves.

For "James Pease". One of the huge failures of mainstream media has been to deliberately downplay the career truths such as you've given us a glimpse of. It was general knowledge around Stanford what kind of provost Ms. Rice was, yet upon her elevation to prominence in the Bush Administration, not a single major newspaper paid the slightest heed. "Cold, self-serving, devoid of personality, not the slightest faith or indication of faith". Yet all we saw were puff pieces, like the current Montgomery book, praising her for her alleged accomplishments.

One might as well have hoped for media investigation of Bush's AWOL from Air National Guard duties, his drunk-driving charge, the abortion he reportedly arranged for a girl friend, and the small frogs he used to blow up by putting firecrackers up their behinds.

Sad but true -- the media are becoming as worthless as TASS or Izvestiya in the Soviet era, larded with propaganda, trivia, infotainment and very little substance on the kind of people who rule us. If you don't think so, check European papers or news channels and be prepared to be shocked how much worse are their American counterparts.

God spoke to the Isrealites through the Prophets and their prophesies are therefore timeless. It was Jeremiah who forewarned the Jewish people of the destruction of the Temple and the diaspora. Given the current relationship between Israelis and Palestinians Jeremiah's words are especially relevent today.
"For if you truly amend your ways and your doings,
if you truly execute justice one with another,
if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow,
or shed innocent blood in this place,
and if you do not go after other gods to your own heart,
then I will let you dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever."
Condoleezza should take note.

I knew Condi when she was at the Hoover institution at Stanford. I never saw any faith or indication of faith. She seemed very selfserving, and devoid of personality, she was not liked by her staff. I often asked the people there,What's her problem...but they said they were in no position to answer. I was never sure what that means, except that she had powerful friends insureing her success.

Please, please, remember the many suffering innocents in Iraq that lead me and others to ask how such suffering could be the way of Jesus? Clearly, Ms. Rice lacks compassion and selflessness. This essay is an affront to all spiritually alive people around the globe.

Please, please, remember the many suffering innocents in Iraq that lead me and others to ask how such suffering could be the way of Jesus? Clearly, Ms. Rice lacks compassion and selflessness. This essay is an affront to all spiritually alive people around the globe.

The "Faith of Laura Bush"?

Yes, if you run your car back and forth over your boyfriend for 25 times and then run into church howling about how you've "paid him back," then you can truly believe that you will have killed him.

Credo in vehicularum homicidum.

Does this woman have tapioca for brains? God TALKS to Rice's mother and father?

After pancreatic cancer, religionism must be the worst thing in the world. And even then, with pancreatic cancer you can possibly preserve your dignity.

What an idiot. How does such a person get a chance to talk to enlightened people?

To the guy who had anal sex with Cunni (twice):

Who was on top?

Come on, Ms. Rice should have perfectly known what 9/11 really about had been. This woman DOESN'T behave like even non devoted Christian. She, of course, is remebering that she is only a Black woman in society ruled by White men, who, by the way, like to use Black women to destroy Black men and to support racial unequality. Personally Ms. Rice has, probably, close relations with Mr. Bush, and even if not, she should be the one, who would forgive him EVERYTHING, remebering that she owes her high position in American society to Bush family, and what had been given could be easily taken back. Anyhow, to talk about her moral virtues and/or faith is simply ridiculous under the circumstances.

Come on, Ms. Rice should have perfectly know what 9/11 really about was. This woman DOESN'T behave like even non devoted Christian. She, of course, is remebering that she is only a Black woman in society ruled by White men, who, by the way, like to use Black women to destroy Black men and to support racial unequality. Personally, Ms. Rice has, probably, close relations with Mr. Bush, and even if not, she should be the one who would forgive him EVERYTHING, remebering that she owes her high position in American society to Bush family, and what had been given could be easoly taken back. Anyhow, to talk about her moral virtues and/or faith is simply ridiculous under the circumstances.

Come on, Ms. Rice should have perfectly know what 9/11 really about was. This woman DOESN'T behave like even non devoted Christian. She, of course, is remebering that she is only a Black woman in society ruled by White men, who, by the way, like to use Black women to destroy Black men and to support racial unequality. Personally, Ms. Rice has, probably, close relations with Mr. Bush, and even if not, she should be the one who would forgive him EVERYTHING, remebering that she owes her high position in American society to Bush family, and what had been given could be easoly taken back. Anyhow, to talk about her moral virtues and/or faith is simply ridiculous under the circumstances.

Come on, Ms. Rice should have perfectly know what 9/11 really about was. This woman DOESN'T behave like even non devoted Christian. She, of course, is remebering that she is only a Black woman in society ruled by White men, who, by the way, like to use Black women to destroy Black men and to support racial unequality. Personally, Ms. Rice has, probably, close relations with Mr. Bush, and even if not, she should be the one who would forgive him EVERYTHING, remebering that she owes her high position in American society to Bush family, and what had been given could be easoly taken back. Anyhow, to talk about her moral virtues and/or faith is simply ridiculous under the circumstances.

I had anal sex with Condoleezza. Twice.

Hey, you know the only problem with Southern Baptists?

They don't hold them under long enough!

XOX

Judas Magdalene

Now I've heard everything. Now low are these people going to go with using God. Rice is no more a believer then the Easter Bunny. Why on earth with all this so called religion is she sleeping with the President. I have noticed that all the GOP religious cheerleaders are committing the biggest sins like Senator Vitter. Does God say to lie, cheat and steal? Connie Rice watched the Katrina victims beg for help as she stood in New York Times Square and watched. Then continued shopping for shoes, now is that what we now call the acts of a Christian. Sell your story to those who want to hear these lies. Connie Rice has proved herself an unqualified Secretary of State and a liar. I guess you didn't see the video of the Bush/Rice actions shown on TV it showed a man hot for Connie coming off the plane. Even his aides had to tell him to stop.

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Dumber than Condi Rice
Never understood a word he croaked
But at least he couldn't carry lice.

Someones got a serious crush going on here!

So why did she remain silent about the memo WARNING the U.S. that we would get hit in 2001?
Your column does not convince me (at all) that Cond'is faith guides her. She lied to the American people after 9/11 and we will NOT forget.

What garbage. I'm told that Franklin Pierce never stepped on a crack in the sidewalk. Was he the 19th century answer to Rice?

Can we get all this stupid superstition off the site of a great newspaper? Please?

Ignorance is bliss and this is 'condis', secret.

Just too ignorant and blind to see reality...

What is more disgusting? Condoleezza Rice's "faithiness" -- posturing as a Christian while robotically complicit in a
monstrous foreign policy blunder that has needlessly and pointlessly cost a half-million lives? Or Ms. Montgomery, authoring a sanctimonious puff book about a cold moral monster, calculated no doubt to help Rice's future political or business career? Or the Washington Post itself, whose pages are decorated daily with a gallery of "Loyal Bushies", discredited neoconservatives, "faithy" Bush mouthpieces, Rovian fantasizers, woolly-minded superannuated pundits, and outright liars and rogues? Where among them do we place Ms. Montgomery? Do you have no decency, at long last, O Post managing editor and owner? Surely Katherine Graham must be rotating rapidly in her tomb. Let us ponder what Jesus told us about "whited sepulchers" and those who pray demonstratively in the public square instead of in their own homes and hearts.

This is real scary stuff. When we have a Secretary of State as well as a President who are doing "God's work" instead of their job, it is no wonder that we are in the mess we are in. From near universal support after 9/11 to nearly universal fear and loathing today. We have destroyed Iraq and fostered resurgent despotism across the world from Egypt to Jordan to Pakistan to Israel to Russia and demolished democracy wherever it had the temerity to raise its head. Those who think they are doing God's work are not only delusiional, but incapable of seeing the real world and adjusting to it. Thank God that there is less than a year and a half for the US to suffer under these two nut cases - if we are lucky enough to make it through.

'Yet Do I Marvel'

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,
And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
The little buried mole continues blind,
Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die,
Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus
Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare
If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus
To struggle up a never-ending stair.
Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brains compels His awful hand.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

-- Countee Cullen

"I am not a Republican nor am I a fan of Ms Rice's politics. But the one thing as a Black person I have always had to say about her is no matter where you fall on her politics she has got to be one of the most brilliant people of her time."

Brilliant? Let's try Miles Davis, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, or James Baldwin or MLK. Countee Cullen comes to mind, as does Hank Aaron and Michael Jordan. But Condi Rice?

For her smooth lies on nukes and WMD to the American people? For being the new Aunt Tommie when Uncle Colin couldn't take it no more? For being good at playing the president like a piano?

Lord, man, have some respect for your people! This woman is the worst of the lot, and a shame on African Americans -- and all Americans -- for a decade to come. Let's save the praise for those who are worthy.

On Religion:

"The common people find them all equally true, the philosophers find them all equally false, and the magistrates find them all equally useful.”

-- Seneca

You, and all your bobble-brained BIG CHRIST believers are a pitiable TOOL of Rice, Bush, and the rest of these modern-day Roman Magistrates bent on world domination at any cost.

The price of your ignorance?
The fall of our Republic.

Perhaps Ms. Rice would have been better off reading the memo "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" instead hiding in the Bible.

Moral convictions?? We killed at least 200,000 Iraqis, many of them women and children. Where is the morality?

What do the rest of us have to do to stay clear of your self-righteous God-inspired wars? When will we be free of this terrible curse of religion?

I completely agree with your commentaries about Mrs. Rice , in her position , she sees the "complete " picture of the totality of facts surrounding world events , including the secret behind the scenes activity , the result always comes out in innovative , fresh and intelligent solutions that serve best the interests of her country
She treats her counterparts as they really deserve , without hypocrisy and right to the point , no illusions
During her office period , the U.S.'s ennemies , haters and envyers receaved a lesson they will never forget , they will from now on , think twice and more carefully before going against her country
she is a tough , master politician , God preserve and bless her

"There will come a time when someone in leadership will say they have the answers to world peace. This person will probably be European or European decent. This person will proclaim that they have all of the answers to have everyone be at "peace"
Guess what my brethern, don't be fooled. God clearly tells us that there will NEVER be peace until the PRINCE OF PEACE returns to the earth for those that serve him. And until that time there will be FAMINE, PESTILENCE, WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. There will be no end to it until Jesus returns. And when he returns there will be Tribulation upon the earth where people will basically be slaves of the person who was to bring them "WORLD PEACE". Then you will get another chance and even then some of you hard-headed people still won't believe in Jesus after you saw him come through the clouds. Then there will be Great Tribulation and Jesus takes over the earth."

Remember your history well folks. The Earth was created in the year 4004 BC, we are the center of the universe, and the world is flat, and the return of Jesus will sell more tickets than a Police reunion. Have your faith, have your beliefs, but remember to open your eyes and ears, for no matter where you are, extremism will always be the enemy, and will follow established patterns similar to an addict.
Thanks GW for elevating CR to her positions, she is smart, gap-toothed, and still in touch with her "roots". Im waiting till the baby boom generation dies, enabling maybe some change in this country, but I doubt it.
I would also like to thank the Romans for all the contributions they made, especially for adopting Christianity(i realize there are many factors with that one)

"There will come a time when someone in leadership will say they have the answers to world peace. This person will probably be European or European decent. This person will proclaim that they have all of the answers to have everyone be at "peace"
Guess what my brethern, don't be fooled. God clearly tells us that there will NEVER be peace until the PRINCE OF PEACE returns to the earth for those that serve him. And until that time there will be FAMINE, PESTILENCE, WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. There will be no end to it until Jesus returns. And when he returns there will be Tribulation upon the earth where people will basically be slaves of the person who was to bring them "WORLD PEACE". Then you will get another chance and even then some of you hard-headed people still won't believe in Jesus after you saw him come through the clouds. Then there will be Great Tribulation and Jesus takes over the earth."

Remember your history well folks. The Earth was created in the year 4004 BC, we are the center of the universe, and the world is flat, and the return of Jesus will sell more tickets than a Police reunion. Have your faith, have your beliefs, but remember to open your eyes and ears, for no matter where you are, extremism will always be the enemy, and will follow established patterns similar to an addict.
Thanks GW for elevating CR to her positions, she is smart, gap-toothed, and still in touch with her "roots". Im waiting till the baby boom generation dies, enabling maybe some change in this country, but I doubt it.
I would also like to thank the Romans for all the contributions they made, especially for adopting Christianity(i realize there are many factors with that one)

Such hatred and bitterness towards another human being saddens me. How unfair.

god gets scarier by the day

Miguel - Cardinal Richelieu and Machiavelli were devout christians too.

At least Machiavelli was competent. I think Rice has had a silver spoon in her mouth her whole career. GOP neocons have been pushing her from college on. Is she really as smart as has been suggested? Either she isn't as smart or she is spineless (as WestEndDC posted) and doesn't have the conviction of her ideas.

creepy...

We have many kinds of rice in Asia - long grain rice, short grain rice, brown rice, white polished rice, fragrant rice, glutinous rice. We eat rice all the time. We have our own rice, but Condi Rice is one brand of American rice we don't import. Hard to swallow.

Nice article.
In short; if you are christian, and if you kill people or people die thru your actions or inaction,it's o.k.
I simply can't understand what kind of faith you are talking about; but definetely isn't christianity.
The old testament is a very terrible book; but thru Jesus; we have the new testament; that balances the bible.
At the end a christian is supposed to look for the maximum expression of christianity; so what would Jesus do? Is Jesus happy with the Irak mess?
I don't think so.
Cardinal Richelieu and Machiavelli were devout christians too.

Nicole should have written - Also it's good that a black woman can serve underneath any white man. Think about it. How much closer can you get to the top without being on top.

Poor Condoleezza is relegated to the missionary position.

"For one, Rice was an influencial factor in brokering the Israel/Lebanon conflict last year, and is credited with the ensuing peace between the parties. I know, I know, the U.S. categorically supported Israel, perhaps weakening our political capital in the region. But you did ask for one accomplishment."

Hilarious. Israel stumbled into a war of sheer idiocy, LOST, and as usual went whining to its patron for a way out. Rice should get credit because Israel had the sense to cut its losses?!?

Yes great grandparent taught the word of God daily to her parent. She is doing what God prepared her to do.

Yes great grandparent taught the word of God daily to her parent. She is doing what God prepared her to do.

Yes great grandparent taught the word of God daily to her parent. She is doing what God prepared her to do.

Adrasteia:

Please provide some evidence that Focus on the Family is "pro war" and "neo-con loving". Right-wing, yes. Anti-abortion, yes. Fundamentalist-Christian, yes. Pro-Israel, yes.

But pro-war? Neo-con? Do you really understand what neoconservatism is? Please back up your statements with facts and don't attack organizations with which you are unfamiliar.

Christianity was a tool used against black people in this country when they were held as slaves: "Just keep thinking about how much better your after-life will be and forget all about