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CNN - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice used Sunday's talk shows to defend President Bush's performance at last week's debate and counterpunch Sen. John Kerry's ideas about pre-emptive strikes.

"I heard Senator Kerry say that there was some kind of global test that you ought to be able to pass to support pre-emption, and I don't understand what that means," Rice said.
"I don't understand 'proving to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons,'" she said, quoting Kerry's remarks during Thursday's night's debate.

You... don't? Huh. Do you understand "Get a dictionary, you dumbshit"? I'm really not seeing anything terribly complicated about the concept of being able to JUSTIFY an invasion into another sovereign nation, so I'm guessing that the problem here is that nobody in the Bush administration quite understands what "legitimate" means, which is admittingly sort of understandable after our last presidential "election."

Seriously though, is the job of National Security Advisor a volunteer position or what? We're not actually paying someone who comes out to the press and says that she DOESN'T UNDERSTAND something that's one of the cornerstones of her job, right?

I can see this as a ploy to connect with the "plain-old, simple folk" of America by making fun of the candidate who uses all them big words. But you know what? I don't care if you, as a voter, don't understand some of the concepts involved in national security. Maybe you're running your family farm so never needed to go to college for a fancy degree, or maybe you're a Nascar driver so never finished junior high. That's fine. But don't you want the people that you are paying with your tax money to run your country to have some idea what they're doing? Maybe these people in important government posts be familiar with the idea that military action slaughtering thousands of people needs to have a legitimate reason?