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March 2012 Rice’s
talks on faith
It
a pity that Condoleezza Rice’s strong Christian faith did not serve her well
during the tumultuous years as President Bush’s Secretary of State. Her
warnings of nuclear mushroom clouds descending on US cities, turned out to be
carefully crafted hysteria to justify the pre-emptive war on Iraq. The hoodlums
who perpetrated the 9-11 attack were Saudi citizens hiding in the mountains of
Afghanistan and later in Pakistan – not Iraq.
Condoleezza
Rice then used her considerable skills to support President Bush and his inner
circle’s decision to attack Afghanistan – another appalling decision. Iraq’s
infrastructure has been largely destroyed with the ‘shock and awe’ of our
invasion. We have left a terrible legacy. Over a trillion of dollars of our tax
money has been squandered. Tens of thousands of Iraqis, Afghanis and US
servicemen have lost their lives and many others suffer from horrible injuries.
It is hard to believe Jesus would have approved such actions.
It
is extremely sad to see such an attractive and talented person fall victim to
political pressures and participate in such an appalling war of aggression on
Iraq that was no threat to the US - no
WMD’s,
no 911 and no Al-Qaeda connections.
Her
claim to possess an abiding faith should have served as a moral compass to
resist such political pressures. The indelible stain of the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars cannot be so easily erased and will shadow all of her other
accomplishments.
(Los Altos Crier, March 28, 2012)
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