Connecting the Condi Dots
Forbes ranked her as the most
powerful woman in the world in 2004 and 2005, but she fell to second place in 2006
when she was outranked by Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany. [1]
Polls taken shortly before the
mid-term elections indicated she has the highest public approval and favorable
opinion ratings of anyone in the Bush administration. [2]
This morning an article stated “Cheney
is seen as a key architect of the
Obviously a true statement -
most Americans feel that Cheney and Rumsfeld, along with President Bush, are
responsible for the
Condoleezza Rice made history
on
During the 911 Commission
hearings most of us learned that, on an almost daily basis during the summer of
2001 Rice met with
When Iraq delivered its
12,200-page declaration on Weapons of Mass Destruction to the United Nations on
Doesn’t it seem peculiar that
the same person unable to ‘recall’ an emergency meeting regarding a pending
attack by Al Qaeda [that subsequently took place on
In 1990 Rice was named special
assistant to President George H.W. Bush for
national security affairs. Historically, George W. Bush has relied on his
fathers advisors and Condoleezza Rice is no exception. When Bush went on the
presidential campaign trail in 2000, Condoleezza Rice took a one-year leave of
absence from Stanford so she could work as his foreign policy advisor.
Pacific Coast Oil Company
became Standard Oil Company of California which then became Chevron Corporation
Texas Fuel Company later became The Texas Co. and eventually became Texaco Inc.
In 2001 Texaco Inc. and Chevron Corp. merged to become ChevronTexaco
and the name was subsequently changed to Chevron in 2005. In 2005 Chevron
acquired Unocal and is now one of the largest oil energy companies in the
world, operating in 180 countries.
On
It should come as no surprise to anyone that once the
Iraqi oil fields are developed Iraq will replace Saudi Arabi as number one in
oil reserves.
Rice has such deep-seeded roots in the oil industry that
an oil tanker Condoleezza Rice was named after her, but the name was
subsequently changed to Altair
Voyager due to the controversary. [6] The Altair Voyager although owned by CalPetro Tankers
in the Bahama’s is still operated by Chevron [7]
Senator Evan Bayh, was one of many, who opposing the nomination of
Condoleezza Rice to Secretary of State stating the following at the Senate
nomination hearings [8]
“I rise to express my opposition to the nomination of Condoleezza
Rice and her proposed promotion to that of the position of Secretary of
State--not because I object to her personally; I do not; not because I oppose
the mission of establishing freedom and democracy in Iraq; on the contrary, I
support it; but because I believe she has been a principal architect of policy
errors that have tragically undermined our prospects for success in this
endeavor.”
While the person that consistently advocated the war in
Iraq, has been totally outspoken in her support of the war, and is the person
President Bush considers his “most trusted” foreign policy advisor readies
herself for a possible 2008 presidential run, the American public led a
Republican sheep to slaughter and Donald Rumsfeld is his name.
Condoleezza Rice may be considered one of the most
powerful women in the world, and she may be favored by the American public, but
she is also someone that could conceivably set the cogs in motion for World War
[1] http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/11/06women_The-100-Most-Powerful-Women_Rank.html
[2] http://pollingreport.com/P-Z.htm#Rice
[5] http://usinfo.state.gov/mena/Archive/2004/Feb/12-779967.html
[6] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/05/MN223743.DTL
[7] http://www.e-vrp.com/Vessel_Details.asp?VesselID=33306&PlanNum=793
[8] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?r109:./temp/~r109X6udMf