I was never impressed by the supposed foreign policy genius of Ms. Rice. Perhaps it's just nerves, but her voice has always sounded to me like it had a bit of a tightness in the throat like she was in over her head. If she was W's tutor on geopolitical strategy, I guess I'd have to say, fair or not, judge the teacher by her student. Or maybe she's an expert on Cold War and Russia, but even there, it sure took W a long time to wiff the KGB-totalitarian stench on Putin.

The shame of it is that a good man like Colin Powell was used for a bad cause when he told the UN about the WMD "evidence," but a second-rate a$$-kisser like Condi is still at State, in Powell's place, sleepwalking through the abject destruction of USA's credibility and the great opportunity to be a leader for the good of humanity post-Cold War.

Sure she screwed up the whole country, but where is the hair-obsessed Politico when you need them?

That honestly is the worst straightened hair in the history of crappy, dark-n-lovely home straightening. Every black woman I know howls at the mention of Condi's hair. Speculation runs deep that she's still doing it herself.

She has time to shop for shoes, but not to run to the local beauty parlor for a professional perm? Geesh.

She would be Alberto Gonzales.

is the same thing they persecuted President Clinton for, a good buggering. This is the most incompetent, delusional NS Advisor and Secretary of State we have ever had.

Is a seat in the docket at Nuremburg and an appointment with the hangman. This entire regime is guilty of war crimes and if justice and accountability are to have any meaning they need to be charged.

I am always amazed how women enable the Current Occupant, be it Laura, Karen Hughes, Condi, Harriet Miers, etc. I always thought women hated the smirking fratboy, but these women seem to embrace him. Mystery.

With Condi, I realized early on that you had to assume she was lying so matter what she said, culminating in the famous quote in April 2002 that the administration had no idea Al Qaida might use commercial airliners as guided missiles. Yet every CIA report since 1995 mentioned that very possibility and even listed the potential targets including the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. "Secretary Rice, were you lying or didn't you read the reports?"

January 2009 can't come fast enough to get these true believers out and get some people in who have doubts in their minds. Doubt forces debate. Debate clarifies the issue. Clarified issues usually don't become disasters.

. . . believe there every thought comes fresh hatched from the mind of God

growing grammatically stupid in my advancing years

Tell us something we didn't already know

I wrote a letter a while ago pointing out that the only way she could have gotten and kept her job is the quality of her BJs. I was yelled at by a feminist for making that observation. This book appears to support my view (also, by the way, agreed to by my wife). The woman is an idiot on the world view. Remember she totally missed the fall of the Soviet Union, even though the Soviet Union was her specialty. "W" is the decision maker, he "knows" what is going on in the world. And he surrounds himself with people that will either tell him what he already knows or make him comfortable. In "Condi's" case, it is both. Remember, the Republican Congress impeached the last president who lied about getting a blow job in the Oval Office.

I second every criticism of Rice by Mabry, Conason, and the other posters. I found it totally repugnant when Rice trotted out the warning of a "mushroom cloud" as a pretext for invading Iraq: right or wrong, we are the only state to use nuclear weapons on the scale of Hiroshima, and to deploy that image to manipulate public opinion was a shocking abuse of the most morally serious event of our age.

That said, I don't find it shocking--but I do find it disturbing--that Ben Dover would attack Rice by declaring the need for her to be "buggered." Jeez.

but when the wall came down, she was just as surprised as the kid who mows my lawn. Then her less than deep understanding of the KGB and all things Soviet allowed Putin to make a complete ass out of Cowboy Bush. Instead of looking into his eyes, Bush and NSA Rice should have been looking into his dossier.

That book about Rice sounds like one, long *duuuuuhhhh.*

How anyone of reasonable intelligence and awareness could miss Rice's really profound intellectual dishonesty is beyond me. I knew the first time I heard her talk that she was just a con-artist who was wound up way too tight to even be very good at it. I can't imagine anyone with an ounce of sense who would believe a damned thing she said...or who would believe that anything she said was for any purpose other than her own benefit. Who in hell has she been conning all this time? I wouldn't trust her to take out the garbage...not the first time I heard her voice...and certainly not now.

The fact that she "adores" Bush, and thinks he can do no wrong...does that not say everything? Seems to me it would.

But, even if you take that particular weirdness off the table, you're left with a woman who couldn't convince a bird to fly, even on her best days. Did no-one get this? Ever? I knew it right from the start of her public life in DC. You couldn't trust a damned thing she said. You could hear it in her voice. Every time. You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to get that. All you had to do is compare known facts to what she said, and know that she was lying nearly every time she opened her mouth. Just like her boss.

What the hell is happening to us? What HAS happened to us? Is it just now that these cheap con-artists in the White House are suddenly revealed? Was no-one paying attention? At all?

You know...for a long time I had some hope that human beings weren't really as twisted and crazy as they seemed to be. As I reach the half-century mark of life, I've reached the unavoidable conclusion that humans are FAR more stupid, twisted, and crazy than I ever imagined. I really should not get exercised about such things at this point, you know? But I do, alas. It'll probably shorten my life. We turn our government, our very lives, over to cheap hustlers and con-artists, and then we wonder why everything goes to hell.

Phooey.