Completely and Utterly Inept

They knew

Dissent

Amazing how Condi doesn't even flinch.

"The Legal System Has Spoken..."

...but...

At first, Rice said she didn't want to get involved in the deliberations.

"Look, I'm not going to get involved in trying to give the President advice on how he ought to think about this. You know, he has to think about what he wants to do," she said.

But, Rice seemed to hint at the desire for a pardon of Libby for his crimes.

"Let me tell you what I think about Scooter Libby. I think he's served the country really well. I think he did it to the best of his ability," Rice said when asked "You think he should go to jail?"

She went on, "I think that he is going through an extremely difficult time with his family and for him. And you know, I'm just desperately sorry that it's happening to him and I -- you know, the legal system has spoken, but I tell you, this is a really good guy who is a good public servant and ought to be treated in accordance with that."

But what, Condi? The legal system has spoken but what? Let's just ignore the legal system?

Would some brave journalist please ask Condi how she feels about Paris Hilton's sentence? Surely some might argue that Paris' sentence is too harsh and that, in the scheme of things, Paris shouldn't go to jail?

I mean...she provides entertainment to Americans, sings, acts, and sells various products under a brand name. It's the American dream! So why should she be imprisoned for providing so much to so many?

Clean-Up In Aisle-Two (Grains, Pasta, Syria)

Rice meets with Syrian foreign minister

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Syria's foreign minister Thursday in the first high-level talks between the two countries in years.

The meeting came hours after the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Syria had moved to reduce "the flow of foreign fighters" across its border.

The Bush administration has shunned Syria, which it considers a state supporter of terrorism, and last month President Bush assailed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for making a trip to Damascus, saying it sent mixed messages to the Syrian government.

Mixed messages indeed. Perhaps Condi is just mad because now she gets sloppy seconds.

Gearin' Up

AP via Yahoo

By 21-10, the House oversight committee voted to issue a subpoena to Rice to compel her story on the Bush administration's claim, now discredited, that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa.

...

Moments earlier in the committee chamber next door, the
House Judiciary Committee voted 32-6 to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, Gonzales' White House liaison, for her testimony on why the administration fired eight federal prosecutors. The panel also unanimously approved — but did not issue — a subpoena to compel her to appear.

Simultaneously across Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved — but did not issue — a subpoena on the prosecutors' matter to Sara Taylor, deputy to presidential adviser Karl Rove.

The House oversight committee also issued subpoenas for the
Republican National Committee for testimony and documents about White House e-mails on RNC accounts that have apparently gone missing.

As thrilled as I am by these developments, this takes the cake.

In case Gonzales thought the worst had passed with his punishing testimony last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the chairman and top Republican issued a new demand: Refresh the memory that Gonzales claimed had failed him 71 times during the seven-hour session.

Leaving Iraq Better Than How We Found It

On her recent surprise visit to Baghdad at the beginning of her Middle East trip, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other government officials and while speaking in front of cameras, made this interesting statement:

Rice rejected the thought that “the American people don’t want to fight this war anymore.”

“The American people want to know that we can succeed. Because they, too, want to succeed. And so we will have our discussions and our debates at home, but Americans want to win this war,” she said.

“They want to leave an Iraq that is better than the one they found. They want to leave an Iraq that is going to be a pillar of a stable Middle East.”

Does Condoleezza Rice need to be reminded that it was just last November that Americans voted overwhelmingly to elect leaders to both the House and the Senate that would lead the country in a new direction which includes finding a way to end this war? To assert that Americans do want to fight this war is flat out untrue.

Most preposterous, however, is the statement she made that Americans "want to leave an Iraq that is better than the one we found."

It was through the repeated failures of you and your other neocon warmongerers that we let Bin Laden go in Afghanistan, leaving him, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to slowly re-emerge to power in that country while we took our eye off of them to go invade and destroy Iraq.

Shock and awe, right? Isn't that what we called it? And although it wasn't a quick, lightning precision strike like we had all been told it would be, ultimately, what we've brought upon that country now truly is shock and awe.

The time to find an Iraq that is better than the one we found is long past. We blew that chance already.

Rumor: Cheney Out, Condoleezza In

Surely if it pans out, it will be "health related."

No mention yet, though, of Condoleeza's illegitimate while child...