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I, too, was stunned that any educated author could enter into this project of writing about Condi's life without having an inkling that she is a liar of the highest (er, lowest) order.
I have never seen her speak--defending the indefensible, blindly parroting her vicious cohorts, or blatantly and chirpily lying to the Senate--without experiencing the same revulsion that Bush, Cheney, and all those other bastards create in me.
had_enough, I have been paying attention all this time, as I am sure were many of us here. I was nearly assaulted at a peace sit-in when a large burly college student screamed in my face that "they were fighting over there" while I was "sitting on my ass." I am sure I would have been assaulted if I had asked him why, if he was so passionate about it, he wasn't there himself. I mention this because I think that Condi and the Bushies very cynically have used fear, in many many ways, to whip up rage against those people who dared to disagree with them.
It is disheartening indeed to see that it has taken this long for some of the truth to come out, and even more disheartening to think how easily the majority can be completely deceived in the future, again and again. Goebbel's formula works, as these scoundrels know.
But it seems that Condi Rice will never look closely at the dark truth of things. People like that scare the shit out of me.