Rice: Huckabee’s Foreign Policy Criticisms Are ‘Simply Ludicrous’

[CatWoman]

President Bush’s foreign policy has recently come under fire from several conservatives. In a current Foreign Affairs article, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee writes that the administration suffers from an “arrogant bunker mentality.” Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton wants the United States to be more arrogant, saying that Bush’s policies are in “free fall” because he is “under the influence of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.”

Today in a press briefing, a reporter asked Rice to respond to their criticisms. Rice initially refused, dismissing them as unimportant. But she nevertheless proceeded into a vigorous defense of the administration’s policies, eventually calling the statements “ludicrous”:

RICE: Look, I don’t comment on other people’s comments. I don’t have time, all right. I really don’t have time to worry about this. <…>

The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous. And one would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy. <…>

And so, I would just say to people, look at the facts.


http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/21/rice-huckabee/

[TwilightGardener]

1. Huckabee's foreign policy speech was absolutely ripped apart

into nonsensical pieces--I don't even think he consulted anybody when he wrote it. The only part of it that actually made sense was the arrogance charge.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Yeah, like totally luda-criss and stuff." - Condie

"Hucksterbee is clearly a moran, and not a True Blue Republicon Homelander crony wide-stancer, like us series Bushies."

- Condi