"The president had no choice but to act today," Boxer said in a statement issued by her office. "Anyone who questions the timing of his decision ignores the fact that we committed a month ago to act if [chief U.N. weapons inspector] Richard Butler reported that Saddam was not cooperating. These critics are blinded by political considerations."

Boxer was also quoted: “Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.”

WHO is “blinded by political considerations” now and WHO has a problem stating “FALSEHOODS”?

Barbara Boxer … you are NOT the “victim” here, the California voters are.

Long story short, C-Span did not show it and the NYT apparently transcribed CSPAN.

http://wizbangblog.com/archives/004894.php

With that said, the above URL is a Realaudio file of the part of the hearing which contains the exchange between Voinovich and Rice. I have noted the times in the file to make it more convenient.

Voinovich begins at 22:50 in the file. I will note, though a less important point, that the transcript you show above has Voinovich saying "from training to budgets to mentoring to embassy security", when it seems to me he actually said "monitoring" in that sentence.

But to the meat of the matter. Voinovich's opening part did not end where this transcript ends it. At 26:13, He continued on the Balkans, speaking of 4000 refugees, 900 homes burned, the money invested for repair. Rice and Voinovich talked back and forth about this region for another few minutes, and also on the subject of anti-semitism and what money was to be allocated to the OSCE for monitoring of this.

Here is the part you claim never happened:

31:30 Voinovich: "I feel our best offense is intelligence, diplomacy....."

31:45 "...in England, and at the NATO meeting in Venice... I was just shocked at what I got back from our friends at how badly we're thought of today in that part of the world. I just wonder what you are going to do to try to change that? I think what we're doing in the tsunami is wonderful, but we have got to show people that we love 'em, that we are for democracy, that we want them to enjoy the same thing, that we don't have any hidden motives. What do you plan to do in that area to respond to that?"

32:31 - Rice: "Senator, first of all I do agree that the tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the U.S. government but the heart of the American people, and I think it has paid great dividends for us. Sometimes we've had to ask people to do very difficult things and we've had policies that some people don't like..... support for Israel..."

33:05 - "But we somehow have to get the message out that this is also the first president who has called as a matter of policy for a Palestinian state, and somehow we're not getting that message out."

She talks of embassies and ambassadors.

33:45 - "And so I think we have to have a new......"

This is where the transcript above picks up, and Boxer is called at 35:20 in the file.

So you can, a full 7.5 minutes out of a 12.5 minute exchange is missing from that transcript.

Now you may continue by saying that Boxer is making too big of a deal with it, but the words were said, and everyone who listened to Pacifica Radio primary or affiliate stations on Tuesday morning heard them all quite plainly.

Flip a coin - Alzheimers or senility.

Or too much time spent drinking with Teddy.

VOINOVICH: ... I think what we're doing in the tsunami right now is wonderful. I think it's -- but we have got to show people that we love them, that we are for democracy, that we want them to enjoy the same thing but we haven't any hidden motives. What are you planning on doing in that area to respond to that?

RICE: Senator, first of all, I do agree that the tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the U.S. government, but the heart of the American people. And I think it has paid great dividends for us.

Bell: I really hope that the Lt is your initials and not military rank. If you are in the military, it sure doesn't show through the way you write or think. If you are not military and those are not your initials, you really shouldn't be using a military rank abbreviation. Not only are you impersonating an officer, you reflect horribly upon the armed forces.

Now about Dr. Rice. I have yet to see a good transcript that had the tsunami exchange. The most reliable source to see and hear what was actually said would be video tape of the exchange, but as Paul said, it was cut from CSPAN. Any one look at the webcast?

This is not to say that the insurgency are patriots. Just that your refutation of this assertion is, itself, pure bullshit according to our millitary's own estimates of the make up of the insurgency.