{"id":64,"date":"2006-04-13T20:15:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-06-29T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T00:15:00","slug":"rice-thanks-iran-for-cooperating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Rice thanks Iran for cooperating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON DC) <img align=\"right\" title=\"Condoleeza Rice\" id=\"image63\" alt=\"Condoleeza Rice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Condoleeza_Rice.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>The Secretary of State for the US finished up statements about Iran by thanking them for cooperating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had Iran on the drawing board for a preemptive strike for quite awhile but couldn&#8217;t put together even the flimsiets of excuses.  We kept saying, what could be our hostages?&#8221; laughed Rice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man, if we&#8217;d been Carter we&#8217;d have been in there in two seconds. But now with the enrichment of Uranium, we don&#8217;t even need an excuse.  It writes itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rice had taken Iran to task for allegedly defying the UN by continuing with a nuclear program. Her remarks were made off the record and immediatelt sealed as part of national security.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters were told if they &#8216;printed that crap&#8217; they&#8217;d be told they were quoting Rice out of context, that she was at best joking, and they would be stripped of their press identification papers.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters who stated there was no such thing as press identification papers were met with a &#8220;You wait&#8221; from Ms. Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON DC) The Secretary of State for the US finished up statements about Iran by thanking them for cooperating. &#8220;We have had Iran on the drawing board for a preemptive strike for quite awhile but couldn&#8217;t put together even the flimsiets of excuses. We kept saying, what could be our hostages?&#8221; laughed Rice. &#8220;Man, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}