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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, shakes hands with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki prior to their talks at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. Rice urged the swift and effective implementation of sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday, arguing that the United States had no desire to escalate the crisis over Pyongyang’s nuclear test.

AP: Rice promises U.S. defense of Japan

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States is ready to use the “full range” of its military might to defend Japan in light of North Korea’s nuclear weapons test, and her Japanese counterpart drew a firm line against developing a Japanese bomb.

The United States is concerned that Japan, South Korea or perhaps Taiwan may want to develop their own nuclear weapons programs to counter the threat from North Korea. Such moves would anger China, which already has nuclear weapons, and raise tensions in the region.

Part of Rice’s assignment on this week’s hastily arranged trip to China, Russia, Japan and South Korea is to lessen the temptation to develop separate national nuclear programs by reaffirming the U.S. intention to defend the nations most at risk.

In Japan, Rice said she reaffirmed President Bush’s pledge, made the day of the North’s test last week, “that the United States has the will and the capability to meet the full range — and I underscore the full range — of its deterrent and security commitments to Japan,” Rice said following discussions with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons programs is not in the interests of these Asian countries. China is the BIG DOG in the area and have plenty of NUKES. An arms race of nuclear material does not make the region or world a safer place.

However, Japan and Taiwan are understandably alarmed at preemptive nuclear attacks from China via North Korea – or from North Korea alone.

This pledge of mutual defense is appropriate and timely.

Asian nations MUST now squeeze Kim Jong-Il with United Nations sanctions, force North Korea back to the 6-party talks and negotiate a stand-down of North Korea’s nuclear program – as North Korea has promised.

What doesn’t help are Jimmy Carter and George Soros playing the Bush BLAME GAME.

Stay tuned……

An elderly Chinese woman gestures as she chats with another near the flags of China and North Korea on the waterfront of Dandong in northeast China, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006. In 1950 China sends hundreds of thousands of ‘volunteers’ to the aid of North Korea which was nearly defeated by a combined force of United Nations, South Korean and U.S. forces. The war ended in a truce in 1953 and China had an estimated 945,000 dead and wounded, North Korea 522,00.

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Michael Ramirez on China and North Korea

North Korea Watch: China and Russia Oppose United Nations Sanctions on Korea

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North Korea Nuclear Watch: North Korea Threatens War Against the United States

Michael Ramirez on Nuclear North Korea

North Korea Nuclear Watch: McCain vs. Clinton

North Korea Nuclear Watch: Kick North Korea Out of the United Nations?

North Korea Nuclear Watch: United States Proposes United Nations Sanctions Against North Korea

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice participates in an interview conducted by MTV host Gideon Yago, (not shown), at MTV studios, Monday, Sept. 25, 2006 in New York. The interview will air on MTVnews.com and MTV overdrive.

AP: Rice challenges Clinton on terror fight

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged former President Clinton’s claim that he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, saying in an interview published Tuesday that the Bush administration aggressively pursued the group even before the 9/11 attacks.

“What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years,” Rice said during a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Post.

If Bill Clinton wants a “WAR” with the current administration he will get one. Clinton LIED under oath and was disbarred. He was IMPEACHED for crimes of moral turpitude.

And Americans are to believe his histrionic gyrations on Fox News Sunday about his role in the global war on terror?

NOPE

The newspaper published her comments after Clinton appeared on “Fox News Sunday” in a combative interview in which he defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and said he “worked hard” to have the al-Qaida leader killed.

“That’s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now,” Clinton said in the interview. “They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try.”

Rice disputed his assessment.

“The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn’t do that is just flatly false — and I think the 9/11 commission understood that,” she said.

Rice also took exception to Clinton’s statement that he “left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy” for incoming officials when he left office. “We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida,” she told the newspaper.

The New York Post interview of Condi is here.

Flap wonders when Hillary will BITCH SLAP Bubba because he is hurting his/her legacy, the presidency and the Democrat Party.

Keep talking SLICK.

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Michelle Malkin: Condi Derangement Syndrome

It’s not just a Middle East thing. Here’s a CDS sufferer in Salt Lake City yesterday, via Yahoo/AP.

Nazi symbol. Check.
“Blood for oil” rap. Check.
9/11 conspiracy-mongering. Check.

And from the UK there is Blair Derangement Syndrome for all of the LEFTY TOSSERS out there.

Graphic Courtesy of FlyingRodent

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Canada Watch: Lakehead University Mocks President Bush

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Australia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shakes hands during their meeting on Thursday March 16, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. Rice is in Australia to attend the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue with Australia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

CNN: Rice: Iran ‘terror’s central bank’

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday urged Iran to resume negotiations over its nuclear program, while also calling the country a central banker for terrorism.

Rice was speaking after meeting her Australian counterpart Alexander Downer for talks that covered topics including Iraq, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Indonesia’s development and the recent nuclear deal between Washington and India.

Rice called Iran a “troublesome state” and the “central banker of terrorism,” though she didn’t elaborate on that, and said it was time for the country to “heed the international community’s call” to resume negotiations on its nuclear program.

Rice said she was “quite certain the (U.N.) Security Council will find an appropriate vehicle for expressing again … the desire of the international community … that Iran return to negotiations.”

Rice is paving the way for economic sanctions to be imposed by the WEST outside the framework of the United Nations. The United States knows that China and/or Russia will VETO any U.N. Security Council action.

Stay tuned for Iran’s response……

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Vice President Cheney – “Iran Faces Meaningful Consequences”

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) shakes hands with Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni after their meeting at the State Department in Washington, February 8, 2006.

Previously on Flap: Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger

ASSociated Press: Rice Accuses Iran, Syria in Muslim Violence

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran and Syria on Wednesday of instigating Muslim protests triggered by drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, and President Bush pleaded for an end to violence.

“I have no doubt that Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and have used this for their own purposes,” Rice said. “The world ought to call them on it.”

She did not offer specifics during a brief State Department news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. The United States accuses Iran and Syria of funding terrorism and has tried to unite world opinion against both Middle Eastern nations.

The Iranian Response:

ASSociated Press: Cartoon Protesters Direct Anger at U.S.

In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran and Syria of instigating protests in their countries, and
President Bush called upon governments to stop the violence and protect the lives of diplomats overseas.

The United States and other countries were looking into whether extremist groups may be inciting protesters to riot, said Yonts, the U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan.

Iranian vice president Isfandiar Rahim Mashaee rejected Rice’s assertion that Iran was inflaming Muslim anger over the cartoons. “That is 100 percent a lie,” Mashaee said in Jakarta, Indonesia. “It is without attribution.”

A developing story……

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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger

Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude

Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

Muhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed

Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy

Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World

Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut Ablaze

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates

Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN

Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures

Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper

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Some 500 ultranationalist Turks, two of them carrying a black wreath, shout anti-European slogans as they march to the Danish Embassy to denounce the publication of caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers, in Ankara, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. Banners read: ‘Hands that reach the Prophet must be broken’, ‘ Jesus Christ will not forgive you’, ‘Down with Denmark’.

Reuters: Rice: Iran, Syria stoking anger

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran and Syria on Wednesday of deliberately stoking Muslim anger in a dispute over cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammad that has sparked deadly protests.

“Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it,” Rice said at a joint news conference with Israel’s foreign minister.

Developing…….

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Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude

Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

Muhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed

Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy

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Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut Ablaze

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify

Muhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates

Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN

Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures

Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper

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Two days before the parliamentary elections in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reinforces President Bush’s anti-terrorism agenda and plans for the Middle East as she addresses an invited audience at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. Rice praised the efforts of allies and the international community for helping in Iraq.

The ASSociated Press has Rice: World Not Helping With Saddam Trial

The world has shirked its duty to help prosecute Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday. “The international community’s effective boycott of Saddam’s trial is only harming the Iraqi people, who are now working to secure the hope of justice and freedom that Saddam long denied them,” Rice said.

The top U.S. diplomat also predicted that the Iraqi elections this week would yield the most democratic government “in the entire Middle East.” She did not mention the long-standing democracy in Israel.

The Bush administration has a lot riding on Thursday’s parliamentary elections, which will establish Iraq’s first permanent democratically elected government. If the voting goes well, it will provide a political pivot point for eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Rice, speaking to a friendly audience at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said other nations are starting to do more to help rebuild Iraq and are opening their checkbooks to do it.

“As welcome as this broad support is, I am sad to say that the international community has barely done anything to help Iraq prosecute Saddam Hussein,” she said.

“All who express their devotion to human rights and the rule of law have a special obligation to help the Iraqis bring to justice one of the world’s most murderous tyrants.”

And who has been renown in NOT aiding the United States or its allies in Iraq?

Why, of course, Germany who the United States kicked the crap out of in World War II and then rebuilt with taxpayer money and……

France, whose ASS we saved from the occupation and tyranny of Nazi Germany…..

Thanks………

Rice praised Britain and other countries that have contributed troops or cash to the Iraq effort, and she prodded some of Iraq’s Arab neighbors and others to do more.

“In just two days, when Iraqis make history by selecting the most democratic leaders in the entire Middle East, they will do so with the moral and financial and diplomatic backing of an overwhelming majority of the world,” Rice said.

We, Americans, know who are friends are and we have long memories………

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gestures during his trial held under tight security in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, 06 December 2005. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice bitterly accused the world community Tuesday of boycotting the trial of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and doing little to help prosecute him.

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