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Condi Rice Recalls Moment She and Bush May Have Been Poisoned

Condoleezza Rice Describes When She Was told President and Her Were Poisoned

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to release a new book “No Higher Honor,” which details her years working in Washington. ABC has released a clip from Rice’s upcoming interview with George Stephanopoulos on Dateline Tonight, where Rice describes the frightening situation following 9/11 when, acting as the national security advisor, she was informed by Vice President Dick Cheney that herself, the president, and some White House staff may had been poisoned:

Condoleezza Rice Describes When She Was told President and Her Were Poisoned

“‘The Vice President came on the screen and said that the White House detectors have detected botulinum toxin, and we were all– those of who exposed were going to die,’ Rice told me.

He said that?

‘Yes, he said that.  And I remember everybody just sort of freezing, and the President saying, ‘What was that? What was that, Dick?’ Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time, said.”

It was only a few weeks after September 11, while Rice was in Shanghai with President Bush, that she received Cheney’s message. It said that she, the president, Colin Powell and Chief of Staff Andy Card may have all been exposed to botulinum toxin. According to the Center for Biosecurity, the toxin is the “most poisonous substance known” and “extremely potent and lethal.”

Condoleezza Rice Describes When She Was told President and Her Were Poisoned

ABC’s George Stephanopoulus was stunned to learn that for 24 hours it was unclear whether or not the president had been poisoned.

While the book is said to give an in-depth look from Rice‘s perspective from first joining Bush’s campaign in 1999 through his second term after she was promoted to secretary of state, the Wall Street Journal writes that, “For the most part, though, she breaks no new ground:”

“That the second term takes up 38 of the 58 chapters in the book reflects her larger role as the chief advocate of the kinder, gentler foreign policy of the second Bush administration. ‘The time for diplomacy is now,’ she declared at the 2005 hearings to confirm her as secretary of state—words she added to the remarks her speechwriters had prepared. The implication was clear: The second term would be different from the first.

What never comes clear in ‘No Higher Honor’ is why. Ms. Rice furnishes plenty of detail on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that consumes the lives of diplomats, but it‘s possible to finish these 766 pages without coming to understand her boss’s broad shift in philosophy or why she was able to change his thinking.”

However, the Los Angeles Times writes of several new revelations in the book revealing her viewpoint in diplomatic situations including a “creepy encounter with Col. Moammar Kadafi, who Rice says had an ‘eerie fascination with me personally,“ and that ”the Libyan dictator referred to Rice as his ‘African princess;” Rice’s opinion of then-Lebanese President Emile Lahoud in 2005, that he “had been dressed in a mustard-colored suit that only highlighted his almost cartoonish artificial tan;” as well as what Rice described as “a truly weird scene” when she met with Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir in the summer of 2005, who ”looked as though he was on drugs.”

Coming after books from from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former President George W. Bush, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Rice reveals that she regrets going on a shopping trip in New York as Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath were engulfing New Orleans, and repeatedly clashed with Cheney over what to do with captured terrorism suspects.

In Cheney’s memoir released this past August, the former vice president presented the notion that Rice misled the president about the United States’ nuclear diplomacy with North Korea and tearfully admitted in his office that she was wrong for giving an apology for a 2003 claim that Iraq had been searching for uranium to build nuclear arms. Following the release of Cheney’s memoir Rice responded in the media denouncing the former Vice President’s claims and criticizing the tone of his memoir. At that time, Colin Powell also joined in to attack what he perceived as “cheap shots” in Cheney’s book.

Comments (63)

  • mpthegreek
    Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:10am

    Dick thought he was going to take power the JFK way. He didn‘t know that he isn’t the only one playing games behind the scenes. Notice how he was of course not poisoned. He knew exactly what not to eat. Puppets. Cain is a puppet worked for the federal reserve don’t be fooled like the dems were by Obama. Don‘t ignore this man’s rev. Right. 999. Perry or Paul.

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  • alwayshappy
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:47pm

    This is one classey lady who did her job and did it well! I hope her book is a great succcess! I always admired her!

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:18pm

    Poisoning is what Commies do to their enemies.

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    • motonutt
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Maybe Cheney just ate a braut and had a bad case of gas?

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:32am

    Bush is a Satan Worshipper.

    “Oh Great Owl of Bohemia, grant me your wisdom” and all that garbage at Bohemian Grove.

    Condi is just Bush’s chocolate bunny for visual purposes. She is wholly incompetent and a failure.

    V-MAN MACE  
    • HemiOwner
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:37am

      Chocolate Bunny!!! LOL

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    • offwego
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:13pm

      “Chocolate Bunny” — Very disrespectful and unnecessary.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:54pm

      BTW, I’m black. I’m DARK CHOCOLATE!

      But I‘m not a warmonger’s lapdog.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:56pm

      Would you feel that it is disrespectful or racist or something if I had said White Chocolate Bunny, or Snowbunny, or Vanilla ice cream?

      Cookies and Cream?

      Neopolitan?

      rotfl

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    • motonutt
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:36pm

      @V-MAN….Nothing you say would suprise me. You might be a little out there sometimes, but I don’t think you are a racest. I know you hate all, black or white cops (nazi’s) without bias.

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    • dalebrendan
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:18pm

      @ V-MAN MACE

      You are such a worthless excuse for a troll that I can almost reconsider my stance on abortion; as you should have never been born.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:03am

      motonutt

      I don’t hate any person. I hate a person’s (or an institution’s) actions. Big difference.

      dalebrendan

      I love you too, troggy.

      Have a nice day!

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  • Estaban
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:49am

    I wish she would have run for President.

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  • HemiOwner
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:42am

    Just not a fan of Condi. She’s career government and academics including Colmbia. Ruling establishment.

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    • Clive
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:24pm

      yeah man, who wants a leader that went to school. ^******

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  • avgconservative
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:20am

    Kryptonite, you’re a fool if you think she voted for Obama. There is no evidence of this. She is a statesman, that’s all.

    Flipping libs 24/7: http://FlipTheLib.com

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  • ChiRho4Life
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:48am

    Ouch

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  • SueZQ65
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:38am

    How many times did we warn you NOT to have dinner with the Obama’s? Michelle is evil – pushing those tainted veggies. Shame.

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:35am

    Always loved Condi. What an admirable, accomplished, poised human being she is. I remember she said once that her dream job is to run the football thing in the US. I wonder if she is pursuing it.

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    • Tom K
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:16am

      She often said that the best job in the world was National Football League President / Commissioner, whatever. The NFL Prez can go to ANY game at ANY time and get a good seat. The pay ain’t bad either. Ms. Rice could probably straighten some things out in the N.F.L. She is a great lady and Michelle Obama is NOT !

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  • USaidWhat
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:18am

    MIKEE1 can go crawl back under his tent and cover himself with his “poor me” signs. Biden, are you the REAL Mikee1? Sure sounds like something that would come out of you.

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  • mikee1
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:45am

    Too bad these two RINO FRAUDS WERE NOT POISONED. You would not have ODUMBO INC. CRASHING THE COUNTRY NOW, IF BUSHY BOY, THE LIBERAL RINO WAR HAWK WITH YOUR KIDS AND MONEY, HAD NOT LAID THE TRACKS FOR THE WHITE COMMUNISTS OF AMERICA, who pull ODUMBO’S STRINGS.

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    • Markf
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:03am

      The “caps lock” button is on the center left of your keyboard….

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    • jcknccmret
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:05am

      I thought Liberals were smarter than the rest of us. And they would know where the caps button is located.

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    • elrond3737
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:47am

      I can’t stand these kind of haters. HEY MIKEE1, go to a web site that cares…daileyKOS or something like that. JERK… not only that but wishing someone dead is sick.

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    • BigMG
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:38am

      MARKF: You made my day.
      Center Left, heh…

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    • KILLACOMMIE4MOMMY
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:44am

      Liberal Keyboards only have the letters H, A, T, E.

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  • Anne G
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:16am

    Herman Cain, whom I really really like, in my opinion is not up to the task as regards foreign relations. It takes more than memorizing their names and countries. I’m sorry, but thats a fact. He must know their nuances, what they respond to, what will work, what won’t. I really think Newt Gingrich has all the tools necessary to handle our domestic and foreign affairs. Having said that, if Herman is the nominee, he has my vote. I will not split the vote. Not for anything.

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    • COASTIE90
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:33am

      Did Obama have any foreign policy experience when he ran for president?

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    • SEPARATENOW
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:09am

      I was a Cain supporter, until the Arab Spring. It is clear the Obama administration is willingly playing footsie with the Islamic Brotherhood in order to generate more “grass roots” support for its neo-communist policies and the protests designed to give his revolutionary policies moral cover.

      We need a candidate with strong foreign policy / military experience or expert support who will be ruthless with the Islamist-Communist alliance foreign and domestic. To me, that looks most like Rick Perry, though he is most generally an awful spokesman for our positions.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:35am

      SEPARATENOW
      We need a candidate who will be ruthless with the Islamist-Communist alliance foreign and domestic. To me, that looks most like Rick Perry
      ———–
      We do, but Perry has done his fair share of Muslim outreach.
      http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9445-rick-perrys-islamist-connections

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    • Spirit 72
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:55am

      Billaryn has “foreign relations experience”, but would she make a better President than Cain? That (or another 4 with Obama) would be the end of American as we know it. Game over.

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    • SEPARATENOW
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:58am

      Who the heck is Billaryn?

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    • SEPARATENOW
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 9:02am

      Okay, so you meant Billary. She is not anything close to conservative. How in the world did you misconstrue a desire for a conservative with stronger foreign relations credentials than Cain as a request for Hillary Clinton to be the next president?

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    • jocko
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:55am

      Y‘all don’t know how executives manage at this level. No one has all the answers or knows it all and I would not expect the president of IBM to know to design a transistor or a flip flop or the best vendor to buy surface mounted transistors. A good executive surrounds himself with experts and he MANAGES them, extracting the information and the advice that he needs to make the best decisions.
      What I want is an executive that knows how to do that, has the experience in making high level decisions based on the inputs from his team of experts and living with the results. Just as importantly, an decision experienced executive has to have a set of CORE VALUES that guides his evaluations and decision making. Without core values, he leans whichever way the pressure is. Romney and Perry have this executive experience but their core value strength is questionable. Bachmann and Cain have both and I definitely would trust them. Gingrich, the adulterer is a brilliant strategist, no executive decision making experience and I would ask him to head the Republican party that needs a strategist. Paul is an anything goes who’s mostly popular with the free drug crowd and frankly too old to be effective as well no executive experience. Huntsman – yawn.

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    • amsmith41974
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:44am

      Just look at all the great things that have come from those that supposedly have foreign policy experience. The potus doesn’t need to nuance anything, at least he didn’t when we were a superpower. The last thing this country needs is another career politician to further screw the American people and at this point in history foreign policy is pretty low on the priority list.

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    • dalebrendan
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:21pm

      We could probably actually turn back the tide of tyranny with a Newt/Cain ticket and Ron Paul Secretary of Treasury.

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  • Mr.ManZ
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:25am

    Like Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice will soon turn on the past administration in a quest to regain her liberal standings.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 3:37am

      I’ve been in love with Condi since I sat in the front row of a Piano recital. It hurts to know that she served under a tyrant like Bush. I pray she has the fortitude to stand on her principles and American Patriotism and not fall prey to the wretched communism of her former president.

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    • grayling646
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:36am

      gosh, golly darn amendment 10. lol is all i can say.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:20am

      To think I once thought this woman was hot. She started to turn ugly after she voted for Obama. Look at her now. Her beauty and poise gone.

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  • EyeQ
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 2:53am

    I have talked to and written to two of AZ’s Congress Reps. Congressman Paul Gosar’s office has responded with e-mails and two phone calls with on-line chats. The responses I have gotten from him and Sen. Jon Kyl both state that the most expedient method of disposing Obama is through the election. They state the time of filing articles of impeachment, investigations, responses through legal counsel would take more time and money to litigate and maybe extend past the election next year. They wouldn’t even consider Biden filling in if they were able to remove him quickly. They say after the election we will have time to prosecute the whole bunch after building the prosecution’s case, which is what’s happening as we write these words. The deeds of Congressman Gosar are yielding fruit, with him starting the ball rolling against Eric Holder just last week. Keep praying and contact your Reps in DC to join in the actions that are taking place to shut Obama’s thugs down.

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    • grayling646
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:39am

      I‘ll bet no ’major player’ does one minute of jail time.

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    • SEPARATENOW
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 8:52am

      Agreed. As long as they‘re gone that’s good enough for me.

      BTW when is Clinton going to prison for selling us out to the Chinese “space” program through Laral Corp? Answer: Never.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:06am

    Don‘t blow smoke up Dubya’s ass Condi.

    You don’t need too anymore.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:02am

    I like Condi,just not the Bush’s.The first is real,the latter are phony.As a Texas bone.

    I’m sorry,Bush was a good guy,but he’s not Conservative.Never was.

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    • rot_soldier
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 7:57am

      and he wasn’t from Texas. W. was from New Haven, Connecticut

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  • SIXFRIGATES
    Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:47am

    Isn’t that BoTox?

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  • garyM
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:49pm

    One thing for sure, if the GOP defeats Obama at the polls in 2012, it will be the first time they have defeated him at anything! pitiful, Someone in the GOP should be filing impeachment charges long ago! He had made them look like amateurs since he took office! If I were in the Senate or the House if I couldn’t think of anything to do anything to stop the crap he has shoved down the throats of the American people, I would resign and apologize to everyone!

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  • Lebowski
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:29pm

    Condi…you’re an awesome person!

    She’s the epitome of public service. I’d have a hard time thinking of anything negative to say about her. The next republican president would be a fool not to try and coax her out of Stanford and back into the White House.

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    • Salamander
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:35am

      Now, there’s a black woman with attitude–a GREAT ATTITUDE!

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  • Tronix
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:23pm

    I can’t imagine how nice should be for any girl having Kadafi as fan #1….how creepier can it get?….lol….“My African Princess”, and wanting to have a private meeting with her in his tent!!…and he had prepared a PowerPoint presentation with an album of her pictures with world’s leaders, like they were in high school!!!….I think old Fuzzhead Kadafi was very cute!

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:31pm

      Would Condi consider a VP spot in a Cain administration?

      North Carolina for Herman Cain… http://ning.it/uOUweX

      1. Herman Cain is NOT a politician. (I have gotten a lot of grief for this comment, but I feel as if I’m on solid ground here because politicians have have gotten this country into the mess we are in, and it’s about time for us to hire a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” type of candidate. You know, a regular common sense citizen that still owns his own soul and NOT beholden to anyone)

      2. Herman Cain is probably the ONLY candidate that can beat Obama. (Two major factors play into my reason for making such a bold statement. One… do NOT believe for a second that beating Obama is going to be easy, and I don’t care who tells you so, they are either dead-wrong or lying to you. Just the expected historical level of cheating that is expected by the Obama Election Thug Machine may be enough for Obama to beat any candidate we put forth. Secondly and more importantly… Herman is the ONLY candidate that can strip away 30% or more of the minority vote from Obama)

      There are some very good reasons other than just these two, but for me, these two are all I need.

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    • Tronix
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:51pm

      Dave,
      You are probably right, I like Cain in many issues (Not all)…..but I believe that has nothing to do with my comment.

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  • Deceived and Disgusted
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:06pm

    Sheik…. if I were Bugs Bunny I’d be saying something about someone being a MOROOON, but I’m not.. so I’ll stop pointing my finger at you.
    Cheers.

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:57pm

    So where did this toxin come from? Was it US government labs like the anthrax?

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  • sheik
    Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:40pm

    “Disrespect for the holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States”-

    Condolllleeeezzzzza Rice.

    She was hopeless, clueless and terribly overrated.

    Yet affirmative action product who got her job because of skin color, just like Colin Powell and the O’turd.

    But then again; M. Albright and the totally delusional Shrillary Klintoon are even worse.

    America, we have a problem!

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    • godhatesacoward
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:03pm

      Yes we do!

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    • nobull14
      Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:45pm

      I go with that? she was the most lack luster secretary of state other than clinton. She has nothing to show for her whole time in office!!!!!!.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 5:57am

      Condi decided to go back to the plantation. How stupid is that?

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    • Steve0218
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:46am

      .l. holy koran—–how’s that for disrespect!!!

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 2, 2011 at 11:35am

      Condi is an utter failure.

      I grit my teeth at the Zombie Bush Administration constantly trying to reassert itself as if its policies weren’t greatly detrimental to the rights of Americans and the relationship with our interests abroad.

      And 9-11 was an inside job.

      Ron Paul 2012

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