Wired News | Rice Defends Her Integrity in Clash Over Iraq
" Rice, whose confirmation as the first black woman secretary of state is all but assured in the Republican-led Senate, said she believed sufficient U.S. forces were sent to Iraq despite the insurgency that erupted after the March 2003 invasion, and she vowed to use diplomacy to repair foreign ties strained by the war.
In a heated exchange in an otherwise generally cordial hearing, California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer accused Rice of making contradictory statements to argue the case for war and said the Bush administration shifted its justification because it had failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"I personally believe ... that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth," Boxer told Rice, citing statements about how fast former dictator Saddam Hussein might acquire a nuclear weapon.
Rice responded: "I have never, ever, lost respect for the truth in the service of anything."
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