Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Condi Rice VS the 4th Grader

Rice answers 4th-grader's question on torture
'The president was not prepared to do something illegal,' she replies

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to grade school students at the Jewish Primary Day School in Washington on Sunday.

Ron Sachs / Rabinowitz-Dorf via AP

Updated 6:18 p.m. ET, Mon., May 4, 2009

WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Rice spoke at the school Sunday before giving a lecture at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.
Lerner asked Rice what she thought about the Obama administration's remarks on interrogation methods authorized by its predecessors.

Rice responded that she didn't want to criticize President Barack Obama. But she also said that President George W. Bush assured his administration that "we would do nothing, nothing, that was against the law or against our obligations internationally."
"I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country," she said. "Even under those most difficult circumstances, the president was not prepared to do something illegal, and I hope people understand that we were trying to protect the country."

Last week the former secretary of state told Stanford University students that "we did not torture anyone."

Then the fourth grader YELLED out- LIAR-LIAR PANTS on FIRE----Then the whole class joined in!!! LIAR-LIAR PANTS on FIRE!!! (just saying, that's what played out in my head)

1 comment:

  1. That would have been too sweet.

    Sooooo.... He didn't WANT to do anything illegal, BUUUTTTTTT......

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