Miasma in the House of Bite Me

HILARIOUS Quote of the Day: Condoleeza Rice

I Google-Newsed it, pulled up the exact quote in quite a few non-Western Hemisphere news sources. Are we just waiting for the Sun to move further around the Earth to report it in the U.S.?

Here's ABC Radio Australia:

Link: Radio Australia - News - US urges greater role for Sunnis in new Iraq.

US urges greater role for Sunnis in new Iraq

Last Updated 16/05/2005, 04:51:40

The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is continuing her surprise visit to Iraq, meeting with Iraqi Government officials in Baghdad.

It's Dr Rice's first visit to Iraq since she took up her new position in the Bush administration.

She's also the first senior foreign official to visit Iraq since the formation of the country's new government.

Dr Rice says she wants to see Iraq's Sunni Muslims play a bigger role in drafting the country's new constitution.

She's also delivered a brief pep-talk to U-S troops and Embassy staff.

"This is a tough environment sometimes - maybe all the time. But I want you to stay focussed on what it is we are doing here. You see, this war came to us, not the other way around. "

Her visit comes after two weeks of sustained violence .

Among the latest developments, authorities say they have discovered the bodies of more than 30 people at three separate locations. Ten of the bodies were Iraqi soldiers found dumped in Ramadi.

However, insurgents have also released the governor of Iraq's Anbar province, who was kidnapped last week.

It bears repeating:

"...But I want you to stay focused on what it is we are doing here. You see, this war came to us, not the other way around. "

She must be living in that NON-reality-based universe, where the U.S. didn't invade Iraq on false evidence trumped up by freaky U.S. neocon hawks.

It's not entirely unknown, this particular rhetorical strategy. It is the warped logic used by domestic abusers, when they are about to whale on wife and kids for making too much noise or not having dinner on the table in time. You know the phrase, "You're bringing this on yourself. You're making me do this."

Miasma