[quote\Rice: Don't take Iraq errors 'literally'
U.S. secretary of state visits England amid anti-war protests

BLACKBURN, England (CNN) -- One day after Condoleezza Rice said the United States made possibly "thousands" of tactical mistakes in the war against Iraq, the secretary of state says she was speaking "figuratively, not literally."[/quote]
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/04/01/uk.rice.straw/index.html

HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU FIGURATIVELY BUT NOT LITERALLY MAKE AN ERROR?

IS THERE SOMETHING BIGGER THAN CAPSLOCK WITH WHICH I CAN EXPRESS MY FRUSTRATION?

4/1/2006 12:45:51 PM

Ah, the furious backpedal...

4/1/2006 1:19:39 PM

Perhaps with hindsight you can see plenty of room for improvement... which they could then can errors. But if there were thousands then perhaps foresight should have caught some of them. Either way that administration does need to step off the words not literally.

4/1/2006 1:21:29 PM

this is funny...

4/1/2006 3:51:58 PM

I think she meant don't take the number of "thousands" of mistakes to be a literal figure, but instead a figure of speech to mean "a lot."

Really, I think you would have to be borderline retarded to think she literally meant that a numerical thousands of errors were made.

However, it doesn't change the gist of her statement in that they screwed up a lot WRT Iraq.

4/1/2006 4:05:04 PM

maybe it was an April Fool's joke...

4/1/2006 4:32:00 PM

or you could be considered borderline retarded to be the Secretary of State and say something like that - she knew that people would jump all over it. Maybe she needs to be coached like Bushie is on what the difference is between an "inner-dialouge" and what you actually say out loud.

4/1/2006 4:42:19 PM

^ It's not her fault that the media is insane.

4/1/2006 6:30:07 PM

more like "its not her fault the military leadership is prone to making mistakes"

i mean that figuratively, not literally

4/1/2006 7:09:09 PM

THAT CRAZY LIBERAL MEDIA.

4/2/2006 12:01:48 PM

Maybe the Bush administration is just one long, bad April Fools joke.

4/2/2006 12:06:59 PM

I don't know, with the scale of planning involved, I think we're looking at having, at the very least, been Punk'd.

4/2/2006 12:09:41 PM