Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Condi Does Double-Speak

Rice Orders That Diplomatic Jobs in Iraq Be Filled First – washingtonpost.com
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered this week that U.S. diplomatic positions in Iraq must be filled before any other State Department openings in Washington or overseas are made available, raising the possibility that soon the agency will be forced to order its employees to serve in Iraq.

“It is my fervent hope that we will continue to see sufficient numbers of Foreign Service and Civil Service employees volunteering for Iraq service, but we must be prepared to meet our requirements in any eventuality,” Rice said in a message to employees.

Wait a minute.

“…continue to see” [emphasis added] implies that they ARE currently seeing sufficient numbers of Foreign Service blah-blah-blah. But Rice just ordered that positions in Iraq will be filled before any other positions — which would only have happened if there WEREN’T suffiicient numbers of blah-blah-blah.

This sounds an awful lot like the same sort of thinking that’s produced the claim that there is no civil war in Iraq.

Sigh. My brain hurts.