Stanford Student Assails Rice On Torture

(CBS)  A video from a Stanford University student shows what is claimed to be former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visiting a dorm on Monday for a reception with students. One student doggedly presses Rice about what he believes were the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, which was caught on video and posted on YouTube.

"If you were there in a position of authority and watched Americans jump out of 80 story buildings because these murderous tyrants went after innocent people, then you were determined to do anything that you could, that was legal, to prevent that from happening," Rice said, referring to the September 11th terrorist attacks.

The student, who is standing just off camera, listened as the former Secretary of State and Stanford Provost explained her views.

"Foreign policy is full of tough choices, very tough choices," Rice said.

Three and a half minutes into the video, Rice's people try to move her along, but she insisted on continuing.

When the student noted that the United States did not torture during World War II, Rice responded, "With all due respect, Nazi Germany never attacked the homeland of the United States."

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[editoria]

Thank you Condoleezza Rice for telling it clearly and succinctly. It is all too easy and common for people to say that they are against something that was done and therefore they conclude that it was "wrong" without using logic, knowing all of the facts in the situation, and reasoning in the process.

[christopher_ahn]

Yoad, it's you!

Rice is a classic. Her comments on WWII during the Iraq conflict showed almost TOTAL ignorance of a major part of contemporary world and US history. She was/is an academic idelaogue who had no business in either of her two assignments.

Posted by nancy_naive at 2:54 AM : May 4, 2009

She has the credentials to serve in any politcally natured position. For starters, her first college teachers was Professor Josef Korbel...Not to mention, she has received multiple degrees in the field of political science. Now, I don't doubt for a second that there are plenty of examples of incompetent people with an intense background in their career field. However, Rice is not one of them. Some of her experiences including serving as a fellow for the CFR and assisting the JCS...Also,if she had no business, like you believe, in either previously held assignment (as advisor or secretary), then the Senate would not have approved of her appointment.

[mysteriousjz]

Bush and his team of thugs are themselves religious fanatics. As such, they are extremists; we just do not admit it. They declared a "crusade" against "rival" in order to follow their own religious convictions. Over million people have lost their lives, and many more maimed and are in pain-That is even worse than torture.

These ugly thugs must stay reclusive and not be wandering around like that

[jedi0849]

I love how you Libs only hear what you want to hear.

PMS_NBC Tries to act like she was talking like Nixon. Saying that if the president says so then it isn't illegal.

What she actually said was that Bush assured her that he wouldn't be doing anything illegal. Which he didn't.

Dumping water on some people were are going to eventually hand by a rope is fine with me, and not immoral either.

Its just as immoral for Obama to drop bombs on Pakistan and kill innoncent people. Thats a country we are not even at war with!

This whole torture arguement is a joke.
Thank god we had someone with some balls to keep us safe. When Obama's code pink policies get us hit by another attack we will see what the public oponion is about waterboarding then.

2001 poll december 89 percent of people polled supported water boarding including
John Kerry
Hillary Clinton
and John Edwards

This whole thing is too funny and nothing will come of it, but it will give Chris Mathews (man crush on Obama) Keith Olberman (Never has voted and therefore should not be allowed to voice an oponion on TV) and Rachael Maddow (carpet muncher) something to complain about now that Bush is gone.

[christopher_ahn]

Condoleezza Rice is an intelligible and good person. To those who'd prefer to argue otherwise, I would recommend reading about her life. As for the Standford student, who neither shows his face or respect, he seems to think he is superior. Perhaps in hubris, he is.

[PVperson2]

The neo-cons love to post that "Libs" are just squeamish over torture, they dismiss the Constitution and International Agreements we have made and say torture is justified and necessary, I think that 5 minutes under waterboarding would turn all the valiant neo-cons into gibbering idiots ready to tell the world how they sodomized their mothers.

[PVperson2]

So let me get this right Condi, if Bush sent people to rob a bank, it would be legal because he was president, right? Doesn't that sound more than a little like the Nazi defense after WWII, "We were only following orders"?

[ReallyMeanIt]

It cracks me up to hear the lib decries torture and then turn around saying they want to torture certain people.
Can you imagined one of the libs getting capture by ther enemy, they'll spilled their guts in 5 minutes. I guess that's why they don't believed "torture" is necessary.

[Tu_eres]

Woo! mcthreeteeth at 5:56 PM : May 1, 2009
Another profound post by mcretard, and the hits keep coming. You, nancy numnuts and poopypants-three tards in a pod

[cregis]

Somebody please correct me, but didn't some U-Boats land on American shores? I believe some Germans were executed as spies. This woman is unbelievably stupid. We should waterboard all the Bush crowd. After all it's not torture and they could demonstrate that. The main reason I'm against torture is that it can be used to justify torture against our people Yes, I know , no justification is necessary for terrorists. Why haven't we heard anything about truth serum. Doesn't that work?