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Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by d23 »

hg54yghf wrote: post #168
nikcub wrote: post #160

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This really shouldn't need to be pointed out: but the difference is that none of these people have been appointed to the board of any tech company. In 10 years time if Facebook put James Clapper or Eric Holder on their board it'd likely be more controversial.

Are you serious? Al Gore is on various boards, including Apple. He also supported the war. Will you stop using Apple products now? You're not a hypocrite, are you?

Completely ignoring the point that Al Gore wasn't a public official at the time, let's not forget that congress was lied to just as much as the rest of the public.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by gfsdg4g54 »

d23 wrote: post #201
hg54yghf wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you serious? Al Gore is on various boards, including Apple. He also supported the war. Will you stop using Apple products now? You're not a hypocrite, are you?

Completely ignoring the point that Al Gore wasn't a public official at the time, let's not forget that congress was lied to just as much as the rest of the public.

The Factcheck link http://archive.is/vAWQa completely disproves your claim. Are they lying too?

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by d23 »

hg54yghf wrote: post #180
ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Al Gore wasn't part of the administration that led us to war. Rice helped enable the war, Gore was just wrong like most Americans.

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 "Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 Want more? By the way, Rice never "enabled" for the war because she couldn't vote in Congress. Similar to…

> By the way, Rice never "enabled" for the war because she couldn't vote in Congress. Similar to Al Gore.

I just... I can't fathom the idiocy of your post. My neighbor billy bob supported the war too. I guess he had the same degree of responsibility for it as Rice did, because he couldn't vote in congress.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by gfsdg4g54 »

d23 wrote: post #203
hg54yghf wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 "Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 Want more? By the way, Rice never "enabled" for the war because she couldn't vote in Congress. Similar to…

> By the way, Rice never "enabled" for the war because she couldn't vote in Congress. Similar to Al Gore. I just... I can't fathom the idiocy of your post. My neighbor billy bob supported the war too. I guess he had the same degree of responsibility for it as Rice did, because he couldn't vote in congress.

The idiocy of your straw man is quite telling. Rice and Gore had as much pull on the public. I would say Gore had more than Rice because he was far more well known.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by marknutter »

JabavuAdams wrote: post #129
notd97843 wrote: post #108

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Without looking at the facts? Guilty until proven innocent? Good for him for convicting others of war crimes without any due process?

Stow the butt-hurt. I've looked at the facts. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be remembered as the end of the American era, unless Silicon Valley can build US 2.0. and disassociate themselves from Washington.

Comments with the term "butt-hurt" should be immediately flagged and removed from all HN posts.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by d23 »

hg54yghf wrote: post #154
thickness wrote: post #148

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Stop doing that. You're being dishonest right now. This is not about sexism or racism. My co-founder and best friend of 8 years is a woman, and she had the same reaction of disgust by this move as me. This has to do with Rice's history of warmongering and condoning torture, not her sex or ethnicity.

Will you stop using Apple products, a company that has Al Gore as a board member, and someone who supported the Iraq war?

How do you and your moronic cronies (unless it's all just you) not see that this is a completely different analogy? Gore didn't have privileged intelligence; he was deceived like the rest of us. A lot of us like Gore because he seems to have qualities that we would like to see in a government official: reasoned, intelligent, and a supporter of science. I have very little problem saying that 2000-2008 would have been a very different time had he been in the White House, rather than a bunch of neo-cons with the baggage of an Iraq obsession.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by ZanyProgrammer »

hg54yghf wrote: post #180
ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Al Gore wasn't part of the administration that led us to war. Rice helped enable the war, Gore was just wrong like most Americans.

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 "Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002 Want more? By the way, Rice never "enabled" for the war because she couldn't vote in Congress. Similar to…

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