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Good Lord on a stick what I wouldn't have given to see someone grill a representative of the Bush administration before the Iraq invasion the way Lawrence O'Donnell does former National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice in this clip. Every single argument O'Donnell makes is based on information we all -- and by that I mean we Dirty Fucking Hippies -- we all knew before the war. There were no weapons of mass destruction, yet here we have Rice doubling down on the same tired, dishonest and disproven excuses for why the Bushies took us to war.
Watching this confrontation, I feel like shouting, "Look Lady! We're on to your game! It's been 10 years now and the whole freaking world knows you are full of shit." If we'd had journalists willing to ask these kinds of questions -- of these people -- in 2002, there'd most likely be 6000 not-dead US soldiers and a couple hundred thousand not-dead Iraqis still with us.
And I love when she tries to pin O'Donnell down on how many countries were part of the "Coalition of the Willing."
"With boots on the ground, firing weapons?" O'Donnell asks. "Maybe half a dozen."
"Oh, so the Georgians and the Japanese don't count?" Rice replied, "What about the British, Poles and -- the Canadians! -- they don't count?"
Well no, in fact, the Canadians don't count, because they were not part of the "Coalition of the Willing." Micronesia and the Marshall Islands were, although they have (had) no standing armies. The Georgians sent 2,000 troops; the Japanese 600; the Poles sent 200. Iceland famously sent one troop soldier.
You're a liar, Rice. SNAP!
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