LA MENTIROSA CONDOLEEZZA RICE

LA MENTIROSA CONDOLEEZZA RICE

La Secretaria de Estado de los Estados Unidos, Condoleezza Rice, en reciente entrevista con la revista Essence, que es un medio dirigido a la comunidad afro estadounidense, demostró una frivolidad increíble, que no le hace ningún favor a la raza que representa con mucho orgullo, según ella.

Esta malévola mujer, integrante de la pandilla del genocida Bush, Presidente de los Estados Unidos, es solamente una maestra de la mentira, tergiversación y servilismo. La Rice, que dice ser experta en todo lo concerniente a la Unión Soviética, es solamente eso, una cosa del pasado que esta destinada a pasar al olvido, una vez que su jefe y todo su pandilla, sean juzgado la ciudadanía digna de los Estados Unidos.


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Being Condoleezza
As the tensions between Hezbollah and Israel explode in the Middle East, the death toll rises in Iraq, and nations from North Korea to Iran remain defiant in their pursuit of nuclear weapons, the Bush administration struggles to regain the confidence of both foreign allies and citizens at home. And on the front line is a Black woman. Here in an exclusive interview, Essence’s Tatsha Robertson sits down with the secretary of state to ask the questions Black America wants the answers to
Credit: Timothy White
By now we all know the story of how Condoleezza Rice rose to become the most powerful woman in the world. The only child of prominent educators Angelena and the Reverend John Wesley Rice, she grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, surpassing even her accomplished parents’ expectations by becoming a Russian expert, the provost of Stanford University at 38 and counsel to two U.S. presidents. But while we’re familiar with the facts, Rice, now 51, remains an enigma. Rice first spoke to Essence in 2002, when she was the country’s first female national security adviser. Since then she has become the global emissary of an embattled administration. On her watch, the war in Iraq has roiled on with no end in sight, weapons of mass destruction have not been found, and Osama bin Laden continues to send threatening messages, but we can’t find him either. North Korea is defiantly testing long-range missiles, while back home, scandals and leaks rock the Bush administration, sending the President’s approval ratings to a record low. And still etched in the consciousness of many of us are the thousands stranded last year in the flooded city of New Orleans. Rice, who had been vacationing in New York City while all hell broke loose on the Gulf Coast, was criticized by many for being slow to respond to the crisis. And yet through it all, she strides on, matching steps with the President, even reaching rock-star status in countries like Japan and Romania. On the morning of her interview with Essence last May, Rice is dressed in a champagne-colored suit cut just above the knee. Trim and athletic, she exudes power. Like her or not, there is something riveting about her. Maybe it’s the fact that as a Black woman on the global stage she defies traditional expectations of what a world leader should look like. Those who’ve interviewed her say she’s unflappable, revealing little. With that in mind, I asked everyone—from readers of Essence, to colleagues, friends and family members, to the Ethiopian taxi driver who drove me to my hotel in Washington, D.C.—what they would like to ask her. On a hot, muggy day, Rice sits down with me in an office overlooking the Pentagon to talk about the Iraq war, Katrina, Sudan and her connection to African-Americans. Her words are carefully chosen, her defense of her boss unwavering. But her gestures—nods of agreement, ironic shrugs, even a deep scowl—reveal that she knows our questions have answers that are infinitely more layered than she may be willing to give. Essence: There’s so much going on right now in the world, and many of those problems land on your shoulders. I’ve read that you try to get a good night’s sleep every night. Condoleezza Rice: I do. Absolutely. Essence: But I’m sure some things keep you up at night. Rice: I can honestly say that not much keeps me up at night. I’ve always been blessed with the ability to sleep well. If there’s something on my mind, I’ll get up and write down a solution to it or go and sleep on the sofa for a little bit. But I tend to go back to sleep. Essence: Whom do you turn to when you’re struggling with an issue? Or when you just need to talk something through?Rice: Well, first I turn to God. I really am a big believer in prayer. If it’s something particularly heavy or weighty, I’ll pray about it. I also have good friends, people I’ve known for years. And I’m very close to the national security adviser, Steve Hadley, who was a deputy when I was national security adviser. So I talk to him quite a bit. Essence: Looking back at your tenure as secretary of state, is there anything you would like to change or do differently?Rice: Look, we’re in big, historic, changing times right now. And those are always turbulent. I’m quite certain that when we look back, there are many things we might wish we would have been able to do, should have been done differently, could have done better. Essence: Would you say that going to war was a mistake? Rice: No, no. It was absolutely the right decision. It was time for Saddam Hussein to go.
Credit: Timothy White
Essence: The war right now is costing upward of $250 billion, and tens of thousands of people have died, military and civilian combined. And on Meet the Press you said that Iraqis are in an intense political process following the election. Do you still feel that the decision to go to war really was the right thing to do? Rice: Absolutely. Because it’s difficult, it doesn’t mean that, first of all, it won’t work out. I think it will. I’m sure there are people who thought that it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold. I know there were people who said why don’t we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves? Essence: Let’s shift gears and talk about the genocide in Sudan. What is America doing?Rice: The Sudan is a terrible tragedy. And indeed, this administration has called it a genocide. The first thing I would note is that the President, when he first became President, said to me, “What can I do about Sudan?” If you remember, at that time there was a civil war between the North and the South. Millions died in that civil war over decades. The United States brokered a comprehensive peace agreement between the North and the South, and we’re trying to make that agreement work. But no sooner than we brokered that agreement, the tragedies broke out in Darfur. And so the United States has been in the lead on the peace negotiations. About 50 percent of pledges to the World Food Program for humanitarian assistance came from the United States, and 89 percent of what they’ve received is from the United States. In terms of trying to get in a security force robust enough to deal with the situation, we need more help from the international community. Essence: So will we get a more robust security force anytime soon?Rice: We have passed a resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for that. The United Nations will now start planning for it. Essence: Now this is a question that so many of our readers want you to answer. Last September after Hurricane Katrina, when you saw all those African-Americans stranded on rooftops, what were your first thoughts? Rice: I knew that we had a terrible crisis on our hands, a terrible tragedy. You know, there are these pockets in America where race and poverty come together in a really terrible way. It was quite clear that in the poorest parts of New Orleans, people didn’t have the means to get out. I remember seeing school buses underwater and thinking, It’s a pity that they weren’t evacuated on those school buses before they went underwater. But I will tell you what I deeply resented. I resented the notion that the President of the United States, this President of the United States, would somehow decide to let people suffer because they were Black. I found that to be the most corrosive and outrageous claim that anybody could have made, and it was wholly and totally irresponsible. Essence: Yes, but many people did make that claim.Rice: And people should have been held to account for it. People should have been asked, What possible proof do you have that the President of the United States let this happen because these people were Black? Read more in the October issue of Essence! On newsstands September 12, 2006.