Even fourth-graders see through Condoleeza Rice’s bullshit. While giving a talk to an elementary school class one of the students wanted to know what Rice thought about the Obama administration’s comments about Bush administration methods for obtaining information, i. e. torture.
Rice, not surprisingly, dodged the question. But in dodging the question she offered up this key insight – “We were all so terrified of another attack on the country.”
Here is an essential lesson for any statesman – Make no decision based on fear. You cannot be a leader of nations if your actions cannot be distinguished from the actions of a coward.
The boy’s question was in response to this recent comment by Rice -
“The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations, under the Convention Against Torture,” Rice said at Stanford, before adding: “And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”
As far as Rice was concerned, Bush held the powers of a king, not a man restricted by the laws of the land.
The towers might never have fallen if Rice had been doing her job. After the attacks she said -
“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.”
- despite having received memos and advice that predicted that very thing.
The 10-year-old boy actually had a better question, which his mother believed would be too hard-hitting (she must be a newspaper editor), and asked him to tone it down. His original question was -
“If you would work for Obama’s administration, would you push for torture?”
Well, Condi, would you?
