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...calls. At the time, Rumsfeld was the Administration's swaggering alpha male, a global celebrity whom even Bush called a "matinee idol"; Rice was the overwhelmed National Security Adviser, struggling to make herself heard above the din of colliding war-cabinet egos. "I know you won't talk to Condi," Bush told Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward's book State of Denial. "But you've got to talk...
...Rumsfeld, whose Strangeloveian dissembling on the war has always been among the more bizarre media spectacles offered up by the Administration. America is well rid of him. But it has not yet confronted the roots of its problem in Iraq so long as it avoids the culpability of Cheney, Condi Rice, and President Bush himself - not to mention Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and all those revisionist media pundits who want to blame Rumsfeld for a strategic blunder in which they all had a hand...
...refusal to offer Pyongyang security guarantees, played a role in provoking North Korea's test. Whatever the merits and demerits of this argument, there's clearly a current in Beijing sharply critical of the U.S. handling of the diplomatic process over the past three years. So, when Condi Rice comes calling and asks what China is going to do to make the sanctions work, she may also find officials in Beijing responding with their own question, asking what the U.S. is going to do to make the diplomacy work...
...wants to make that hussy Condi Rice jealous...
...that matter, does Condi Rice...