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Condi confessed, but would not repent


By Stan Goodenough
September 03, 2007

"The Road Map is at best a marginal plan. It doesn't work," Condoleezza Rice said in 2003 when she was National Security Advisor during George W. Bush's first term in office.

This is according to a new biography on the first black American woman to ever hold the second-most-powerful portfolio in the US.

Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler, the author of "The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy," said these were the exact words Rice used to slam the land-for-peace plan in a conversation with an Israeli counterpart.

While it is not clear precisely what made her dismiss the plan so firmly, she appeared to be quite sure that it would fail.

And yet, nearly four years after receiving this revelation, and as her term as Secretary of State heads into its last lap, Rice is pushing harder than ever to try and make the "marginal" plan a permanent political reality.

It is as if some force is driving her to bring into being a situation she, or her successor, will never be able to remedy or rescind.

The Road Map, now popularly known as the "Two State Vision," will see ancient Jewish lands stolen from their rightful owners and given to a "nation" that has no historical right to them.

While the God of the Bible promised all that land to Abraham - wherever he put his feet - Bush has called on Israel's Jews to restrict their footprints in Samaria and Judea and begin the process that will render that territory juden-rein - free of Jews.

Rice is understood to be the major force propelling Bush along this road.

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