It's Never Bush's Fault, Damn it!(Neocons Eat Rice)

Looks like Rice is on the Neocon menu this week.



U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gesture during a joint press conference after their meeting at the Palestinian President headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah on July 25. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)



From Globalcrashes:

In his column, Tom Friedman makes an important point, “One wonders what planet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landed from, thinking she can build an international force to take charge in south Lebanon without going to Damascus and trying to bring the Syrians on board.” The United States believes pigheadedly that it can find a solution to the present Middle East Crisis without talking to the country, Syria, which President Bush argued, last week, could restrain the Hezbollah.

From Insight:

Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda

Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda.

The conservatives, who include Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle and leading current and former members of the Pentagon and National Security Council, have urged the president to transfer Miss Rice out of the State Department and to an advisory role. …”

Yes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is incompetent. She was, after all, Bush's chosen one (his UNSTICKER) in charge of post-war Iraq... But Neocons gnawing on her this week isn't nearly as much fun to watch as I thought it would be.

"Blame Condi" is so much easier for Neocons to digest than "Blame Bush."

But not for me.

I'd rather blame the incompetent fool who put US diplomacy in Heckuvajob Rice's incompetent hands.


Best bar bet in the world: Delilah didn't do it.
Judges 16:19-- And she made him (Samson) sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head.