democrats ask for accountability and repubs whine

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Condoleezza Rice's Confirmation Appears Certain, Despite Strong Democratic Dissent

WASHINGTON -- Despite strong dissent from a small group of Democrats, Condoleezza Rice appeared Wednesday to be headed toward an overwhelming Senate confirmation to be the next secretary of state.
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Democratic foes of her appointment focused mostly on the way Bush and Rice took the United States to war in Iraq and how they have handled the war with insurgents since deposing Saddam Hussein.
They said mistakes had led to mounting American casualties.
As the debate drew to a close, word came from Iraq of the crash of a U.S. military transport helicopter in bad weather, killing at least 30 people in the worst U.S. loss since the war.
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Bush rejected claims by Democrats that they had been lied to in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggested Democrats are sore losers. Rice had enough votes to win confirmation, as even her Democratic critics acknowledge, McCain said.
"So I wonder why we are starting this new Congress with a protracted debate about a foregone conclusion," McCain said. Since Rice is qualified for the job, he said, "I can only conclude that we are doing this for no other reason than because of lingering bitterness over the outcome of the election."
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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, turned the debate against the Democrats, whose senatorial campaign committee sent a fund-raising e-mail signed by Sen. Barbara Boxer of California. She quoted from her sharp questioning of Rice in last week's confirmation hearings. Cornyn characterized the e-mail as part of a disinformation campaign that "crossed the line" of politics.
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Now, she will be at his side trying to improve relations with European allies, pursuing a Middle East settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, seeking a way to stop North Korea and Iran from developing nuclear weapons _ and, above all, trying to pacify Iraq with limited additional U.S. casualties. The two days of hearings last week and Tuesday's Senate debate gave Americans and the rest of the world unusual access to U.S. foreign policy and to Bush's critics.
Byrd, the Senate's senior member, said Bush, with Rice's help, steered the country into an unprovoked and unjustified war based on false information that Iraq had been a training ground for terrorists.
"Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people into believing that there was
an imminent threat from Iraq," Byrd said.

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It still blows me away that the repubs will literally say anything and attack,attack,attack when they are called on the lies that they tell, while never trying to justify the lies.
Calling the Dems "sore losers" just because the Dems want to point out Rice's faults and lies to a country that has been sheltered from them by the overwhelmingly conservative media before she is promoted by the repub majority is absurd! The media won't do its job, so we have to get the facts to the public somehow! We know that the conservatives won't do it! As the article says, this gave the world "unusual access to U.S. foreign policy".
I'm on Boxer's mailing list, and I have no idea what Cornyn is talking about when he says there was a "disinformation campaign". Boxer simply stated the facts and explained why she was standing up to Rice. But, i guess to the repubs, facts are "disinformation"!
If only we had more Dems that were willing to take the chance and take a stand.