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Those in Congress who would like to see the U.S. begin to pull out of Afghanistan don’t have a supporter in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

In a new interview with Fortune Magazine, Rice offered extremely sharp criticism of the idea of withdrawal and painted the consequences of this course of action with an almost Cheneyesque bluntness.

“The last time we left Afghanistan, and we abandoned Pakistan,” she said, “that territory became the very territory on which Al Qaeda trained and attacked us on September 11th. So our national security interests are very much tied up in not letting Afghanistan fail again and become a safe haven for terrorists.
“It’s that simple,” she declared, “if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan.”

As the Washington Post reported Monday, Obama is rethinking all aspects of the U.S. strategy in the Afghanistan in light of the disputed presidential election, an increase in U.S. casualties and waning public support here in America.

Source: Huffington Post
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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Black Politicians, Condoleezza Rice, Obama Administration
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Afrodeziak718/ Afrodeziak718

    i smell more bulls**t

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    One thing she forgot to mention…Who supplied Al Qaeda with weapons and weapons training?? A War on Terrorism is an un-winnable war! you can’t wage war against an idea..

    You can bomb the world to pieces, but you will never bomb the world to peace!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Its like shadow boxing… Who gets tired first the body or the shadow, I would hope everyone knew the answer to this

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    I agree with _A_ we need to the GTFO of there and simply secure America it’s not that hard to do. These people in the counties need to standup and fight they own battles.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    Condi Rice is a stupid b***h……

    INVADING OTHER PEOPLE COUNTRIES ILLEGAL, PEOPLE WHO DID NOT ATTACK US…. KILLING MEN WOMBEN AND CHILDREN IS WHATS MAKING TERRORISM………

    LEAVE IRAQ
    LEAVE AFGHANISTAN
    STOP SUPORTING ISREAL

    use them billions n trillions of dollars to help the CITIZENS of USA instead of giving welfare to corporations !!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Today I heard Bark say on CNN that we are getting revenge for the 3,000 people that died in the WTC. But mind you, that we have lost almost 5,000 troops trying to avenge 3,000… Way to go Bark, thats some serious revenge.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    Are you all popping pills or what!? We weren’t at war with or invading s**t when these muzzie asswipes flew into the twin towers! God this is why niggas shouldn’t discuss politics, and keep to sports and s**t, you dumb f**ks! For the longest Barak and his crew have said Afghanistan was the “noble” war, the “right” war etc, and now the clowns that have commented on this page are saying let’s run and maybe they won’t f**k with us again, you pussies!!! I could really b***hslap each and everyone of you sc**! They just caught a bunch of Al Queda trained asswipes trying to f**k up NY!! These guys were trained in let’s say it together dummies Afghanistan, and Pakistan! Which shows it’s clearly better to killem over there than let them over here, you dumb f**ks, God!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Well slit_lcka005, ur words seem pretty tough, Kocksucka Sam has some boots and a monkey suit for u… whats the hold up? And for the record dookie_locks, they already over here. Try catching a cab, or buying some alcohol and renting a hotel room. And dont include my God in ur wack conversation, say Leon or Bob

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @Slit_Icka305…You’re constantly on these blogs accusing people of not knowing what’s going on, but its clear from your own posts you don’t have the first clue…Here is a term THAT I KNOW YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF…I want you to google, read and understand it..Then and only then will I respect your posts..You need that veil of ignorance removed from your brain as soon as possible…The term:

    BLOWBACK

    You are a dangerous dude Slit…Not because you’re talking tough on blogs though, but rather you appear to be deeply brainwashed..You need to read more and stop using CNN as your only source of information, because it has limited your perspective, your ability to think for yourself and it has turned you into a Zombie!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    Actually we should have put pressure on saudi arabia since thats where almost all of the 19 Hijackers came from…we went into afghanistan because it was one of the places where terrorists were conducting terrorist training camps. Yeah it is a tragedy that we lost 5,000 troops trying to avenge 3,000 civilians…but we had a monkey in office who was only after his own interests…I think we did the right thing going into afghanistan (osama and many of the rest of Al Queda were hiding in the mountains. the problem is that we did too little too late. And I do believe we killed Osama bin laden in the intial push into afghanistan…there’s no way he could have survived the bombings of torah borah. Most CIA and intel analysts believe he’s long dead also.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/don_cortino/ don_cortino

    WELL AN ADDRESS TO THE AFGNSTN. IS IN ORDER, FOR THEM TO KNO PARTIALY HOW THINGS WORK IN THE U.S. IT NEVER A GOOD IDEA TO JUST PULL OUT AND NOT SAY ANYTHING,A CAUSE AND EFFECT MUST TAKE PLACE BUT THE VISION MUST STAY POSITIVE,IN MY OPINION THE TWIN TOWERS WERE BOMBED BECAUSE OF POOR TRADING SKILLS,WITH A DRAW BACK FROM THE COUNTRY ITSELF ITS NOT IN OUR BEST INTEREST TO JUST LEAVE WITH NOTHING FOR THEM TO BE RESOURCEFUL WITH, THEY ARE A NETWORK OF THE INITIAL PLAN OF RIDDING TERRORISM, HOW CAN THEY DO THAT YOU ASK,PROVIDE THEM WITH SOMETHING THEY CAN USE BUT NOT AGAINST YOU, SIMPLE

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/beauty456/ beauty456

    Its sad how ignorant some of our people are. The Afghanis are not the real enemy, but poverty and lack of education is. The Afghanis can fight their own battles. Like everything else, Americans can never mind their own business. Americans want world domination, and it won’t happen in the year 2009. As one brother stated so eloquently, you can bomb the world to pieces, but you cannot bomb the world to peace. You just create more enemies and more problems. Tell me, has anyone realized how many homeless families are in the US today? I was visiting in the US recently, and was saddened to see all the homeless people in the streets, and under bridges. We need to stop the wars and take care of home. Oh yeah, Condi Rice has her home and her health insurance.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/beauty456/ beauty456

    Slit, what are you talking about?

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