Dowd Ruminates over Student Grilling of Condi:
Reflecting over the recent defection of moderate Republican Sen. Specter to the Democratic party, Maureen Dowd quotes former Secretary of State Condi Rice's reply to a student who questioned her about whether water boarding amounted to torture. "Unless you were there … after September 11, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans," Dr. Rice said. Hey, doesn't that sound just like the excuse given by the guy who murdered his wife?
Earlier in the op-ed, Dowd quotes Rice as stating, "I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency." In other words, Rice was just the messanger boy. How convenient. Where have we heard that excuse before? Nuremburg?
Reflecting over the recent defection of moderate Republican Sen. Specter to the Democratic party, Maureen Dowd quotes former Secretary of State Condi Rice's reply to a student who questioned her about whether water boarding amounted to torture. "Unless you were there … after September 11, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans," Dr. Rice said. Hey, doesn't that sound just like the excuse given by the guy who murdered his wife?
Earlier in the op-ed, Dowd quotes Rice as stating, "I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency." In other words, Rice was just the messanger boy. How convenient. Where have we heard that excuse before? Nuremburg?
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posted by Jim | 12:42 PM
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Or as Sgt. Schulz famously said to Colonel Klink: "I know nothing, about nothing!"
And the student who posed the question is, as I understand it, only ten years old.
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