Word: rice
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...RICE: Well, I guess I would ask the 300,000 people who ended up in mass graves what they think...
...RICE: I don't think that we are anywhere near able to make those kinds of judgments. I don't think Iraq is going to slide into civil war. They have a problem with sectarian violence. [But] I don't think that you're looking at the breakdown of the institutions; people haven't opted out of a unified Iraq. So on your question of what's better, let's be realistic: Where was the military threat? It was from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. I don't think you're going to see that from this new Iraq...
...RICE: In these new democratic states, people are going to say a lot of things that we don't like. That's the nature of democracy...
...RICE: Well, I do think there are some people who take our presence as an excuse to propagate violence or to stir passions. But I've heard no Iraqi leaders calling for us to leave. And I'm told that in many neighborhoods, the most reassuring sign is, in fact, the American or coalition forces...
...RICE: I don't know how to read internal politics in Iran. And I'm probably more cautious about trying to do this than most people because I used to try to read the politics of a totalitarian state [the U.S.S.R.], and we almost always had it wrong...