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I have to agree with carpetbagger on this one, for Rice to claim that Iraq has anything to do with the Civil War is just plain ridiculous. Her comments about Katrina make it even worse.

From New York Daily News
"Secretary of State Rice compared the Iraq war with the American Civil War, telling a magazine that slavery might have lasted longer in this country if the North had decided to end the fight early.

"I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold," Rice said in the new issue of Essence magazine.

"I know there were people who said, 'Why don't we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?'" Rice said.

Rice also bristled at the notion that the Bush administration's slow response last year in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was because of the race of the majority of the victims.

"I resented the notion that the President of the United States, this President of the United States, would somehow decide to let people suffer because they were black," Rice told the magazine.

"I found that to be the most corrosive and outrageous claim that anybody could have made, and it was wholly and totally irresponsible."

Asked if she felt personally accountable, Rice said, "The government did its best. People aren't perfect, and this response was not perfect. You know, I do foreign policy, I don't run Homeland Security. I don't run FEMA. I do foreign policy." She added, "I did what I could to coordinate the international response."

The government didn't do its best. That's been confirmed time and time again. And it may not been due to race that the response was slowed, but I can't believe anyone would deny that class definately played a part. Seriously folks, if anyone believes that the same disaster happening in Orange County wouldn't have been met with immediate evacuations and loads of resources is kidding themselves.

You should also note(if you didn't read the carpetbagger post) that she made these comments to Essence magazine. In other words she was blatantly spitting this shit to a largely black audience.

In a somewhat unrelated article, Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post comments on the other BS rhetoric we'll continue to get until the election is over.