From today’s Washington Post:
…if the roar from the audience was mostly polite and restrained, that was partly because only a handful of the school’s 5,500 students were allowed near the auditorium where Rice spoke, and the initial questions were vetted in advance by the school and the State Department.
PARIS: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday beseeched Europeans to set aside their caustic dispute with America over the war in Iraq and join President George W. Bush's campaign to bring democracy to the Muslim world. "It is time to turn away from the disagreements of the past. It is time to open a new chapter in our relationship, and a new chapter in our alliance," Ms Rice told French academics and government officials in the capital of European opposition to the Iraq invasion and other Bush foreign policies.
I can't possibly believe that Euro leaders are paying even the slightest bit of attention to this queen of not so masterful deception. They pay more attention to our subtexts than US citizens pay to their own purchasing agendas and/or reality TV shows. They know this flaming bulldyke of a egocentric twit has no conscience or any moral underpinning for that matter. This speech was seen there as an afront to civil dignities, and laughed at in their media, enjoyed for all the hypocrisy and stupidity that it represents. It was clearly a speech for those here in the US, and not for those who had the horrible misfortune to actually have to sit and listen to it.
