Rice: Huckabee's Criticism Is "Ludicrous"

Hat tip to Scott Miller, The Conservative Post, for for his interesting in Condoleezza Rice and the Schmuckabee Smack-down which addressed the following:

CBS News: Secretary Of State Denounces GOP Hopeful's Characterization Of Bush Foreign Policy Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee accused the Bush administration of having a "bunker mentality" concerning foreign policy. In a brief foray into politics, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denounced comments by a leading Republican presidential candidate that the Bush administration's foreign policy is arrogant and unilateral. "The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous," she said at a State Department news conference. "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."

Rice did not mention Huckabee by name in her response and at first declined to respond, saying dismissively: "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." But she then launched into a vigorous defense of the administration's multilateral diplomatic efforts on Afghanistan, North Korea and Iran, and pointed to improving ties with traditional allies in Europe, some of which were strained by the Iraq war. . . . [Read More]

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