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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
 
Her Pants Are So on Fire

As I've stated many, many times before, of all the people in the Bush Administration, I would hold Condi Rice accountable as one of the most negligent (along with Rumsfeld) in the manner in which she conducted her duties. From pre-September 11 failures to listen to Richard Clarke, to the inability of her to function as a traditional National Security Adviser in the leadup to the war in Iraq, and its aftermath. (Fred Kaplan details this failure quite nicely here.) But also in her willingness to cravenly distort the truth to sell the Administration's case for war in Iraq and to defend the Administration. (Remember in May 2002 when she claimed that "no one could have imagined that terrorists would fly airplanes into buildings"?)

Condi should have been fired. But she's the President's bud, so she's getting promoted. Here's Senator Boxer mixing it up with her a bit during her confirmation hearings. The truth and Dr. Rice appear to be mutually exclusive...



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