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March 10, 2006
SouthAmerica: Condi asked for $75 million dollars request for Iran propaganda â the money would be used "to reach the Iranian people" through radio broadcasts, Web sites and other means.â
In the other hand, the Iranians will spend at least 100 times that amount to undermine everything the US is even dreaming of accomplishing in the entire Middle East.
The Iranians are giving a Check Mate to the US regarding its interference in Iranâs internal affairs and on US interference in the countries bordering Iran.
Regarding Condi Rice - All I can do is laugh about her performance as the US secretary of state.
Today the US has the most incompetent secretary of state in a long time â Condi Rice is a real joke â I have no idea why she has not been fired as yet.
Maybe after she helps start a new war against Iran?????
Quoting from todayâs The New York Times article: ââ¦During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on supplemental spending requests from the Departments of State and Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld was pressed repeatedly by the committee's ranking Democrat, Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, not only to defend spending more money for the Iraq war, but also to defend the war itself.
Mr. Rumsfeld appeared with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and two top military commanders, but aside from some pointed questioning from Democrats, it was more or less a recitation of the administration's standard formulations on Iraq and, to some extent, Iran.
â¦She said the administration's $75 million request for Iran â would be used "to reach the Iranian people" through radio broadcasts, Web sites and other means.â
Two days ago Dick Cheney implied on his speech that the US might use force against Iran â regarding the latest US/Iran nuclear weapons crisis.
According to Dick Cheney and Condi Rice â Iran is the latest âBoogiemanâ that is going to get the United States.
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âIraqi Forces Would Handle Any Civil War, Rumsfeld Saysâ
By THOM SHANKER
The New York Times - March 10, 2006
WASHINGTON, March 9 â Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that the United States would seek to avoid putting its forces in the middle of any civil war in Iraq, as he emphasized that America's goal was to prevent the violence from worsening into full-fledged sectarian fighting.
He said that in the event the violence descended into civil war, the American military would rely on Iraqi security forces.
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on supplemental spending requests from the Departments of State and Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld was pressed repeatedly by the committee's ranking Democrat, Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, not only to defend spending more money for the Iraq war, but also to defend the war itself.
Mr. Rumsfeld appeared with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and two top military commanders, but aside from some pointed questioning from Democrats, it was more or less a recitation of the administration's standard formulations on Iraq and, to some extent, Iran.
"In recent days, Iraq has only narrowly missed descending into an all-out civil war, and top administration officials acknowledged that the threat of civil war is still very real," Mr. Byrd said.
"The Congress and the public have a right to know the administration's plans for Iraq before scores of additional billions of dollars, billions of dollars, are spent in that war."
He pressed Mr. Rumsfeld for assurances that any emergency money approved "won't be used to put our troops right in the middle of a full-blown Iraqi civil war."
"Senator, I can say that certainly it is not the intention of the military commanders to allow that to happen," Mr. Rumsfeld replied. "The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the â from a security standpoint â have the Iraqi security forces deal with it to the extent they're able to."
At the hearing, the senior American military commander in the Middle East, Gen. John P. Abizaid, said sectarian violence in Iraq was replacing the insurgency as the greatest threat to security and stability. He said Iraqi forces, with American support, could prevent civil war.
Security in Iraq ultimately requires a political, and not a military, solution, said the general, who leads Central Command. Ms. Rice, while not diminishing the importance of the level of violence in Iraq, said Iran might become an even bigger threat to national security.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," she said, describing that country's leadership as "the central banker for terrorism," an oppressor of its own people, a fomenter of unrest in the Middle East and a would-be nuclear power.
She said the administration's $75 million request for Iran â would be used "to reach the Iranian people" through radio broadcasts, Web sites and other means.
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March 10, 2006
SouthAmerica: Condi asked for $75 million dollars request for Iran propaganda â the money would be used "to reach the Iranian people" through radio broadcasts, Web sites and other means.â
In the other hand, the Iranians will spend at least 100 times that amount to undermine everything the US is even dreaming of accomplishing in the entire Middle East.
The Iranians are giving a Check Mate to the US regarding its interference in Iranâs internal affairs and on US interference in the countries bordering Iran.
Regarding Condi Rice - All I can do is laugh about her performance as the US secretary of state.
Today the US has the most incompetent secretary of state in a long time â Condi Rice is a real joke â I have no idea why she has not been fired as yet.
Maybe after she helps start a new war against Iran?????
Quoting from todayâs The New York Times article: ââ¦During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on supplemental spending requests from the Departments of State and Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld was pressed repeatedly by the committee's ranking Democrat, Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, not only to defend spending more money for the Iraq war, but also to defend the war itself.
Mr. Rumsfeld appeared with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and two top military commanders, but aside from some pointed questioning from Democrats, it was more or less a recitation of the administration's standard formulations on Iraq and, to some extent, Iran.
â¦She said the administration's $75 million request for Iran â would be used "to reach the Iranian people" through radio broadcasts, Web sites and other means.â
Two days ago Dick Cheney implied on his speech that the US might use force against Iran â regarding the latest US/Iran nuclear weapons crisis.
According to Dick Cheney and Condi Rice â Iran is the latest âBoogiemanâ that is going to get the United States.
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âIraqi Forces Would Handle Any Civil War, Rumsfeld Saysâ
By THOM SHANKER
The New York Times - March 10, 2006
WASHINGTON, March 9 â Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that the United States would seek to avoid putting its forces in the middle of any civil war in Iraq, as he emphasized that America's goal was to prevent the violence from worsening into full-fledged sectarian fighting.
He said that in the event the violence descended into civil war, the American military would rely on Iraqi security forces.
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on supplemental spending requests from the Departments of State and Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld was pressed repeatedly by the committee's ranking Democrat, Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, not only to defend spending more money for the Iraq war, but also to defend the war itself.
Mr. Rumsfeld appeared with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and two top military commanders, but aside from some pointed questioning from Democrats, it was more or less a recitation of the administration's standard formulations on Iraq and, to some extent, Iran.
"In recent days, Iraq has only narrowly missed descending into an all-out civil war, and top administration officials acknowledged that the threat of civil war is still very real," Mr. Byrd said.
"The Congress and the public have a right to know the administration's plans for Iraq before scores of additional billions of dollars, billions of dollars, are spent in that war."
He pressed Mr. Rumsfeld for assurances that any emergency money approved "won't be used to put our troops right in the middle of a full-blown Iraqi civil war."
"Senator, I can say that certainly it is not the intention of the military commanders to allow that to happen," Mr. Rumsfeld replied. "The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the â from a security standpoint â have the Iraqi security forces deal with it to the extent they're able to."
At the hearing, the senior American military commander in the Middle East, Gen. John P. Abizaid, said sectarian violence in Iraq was replacing the insurgency as the greatest threat to security and stability. He said Iraqi forces, with American support, could prevent civil war.
Security in Iraq ultimately requires a political, and not a military, solution, said the general, who leads Central Command. Ms. Rice, while not diminishing the importance of the level of violence in Iraq, said Iran might become an even bigger threat to national security.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," she said, describing that country's leadership as "the central banker for terrorism," an oppressor of its own people, a fomenter of unrest in the Middle East and a would-be nuclear power.
She said the administration's $75 million request for Iran â would be used "to reach the Iranian people" through radio broadcasts, Web sites and other means.
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