The Blammmmmmme Game…….. Condi Condi bo Bondi Banana Fanana Fo Fandi Fe Fi Fo Mondi……..Connnnnnndi. Condi’s turn…….
The woman IS useless…….but damn she has some nice shoes!!!

WASHINGTON: For six years, first as national security adviser and then as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice worked under the cover of a very effective shield: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was during that time the administration’s lightning rod for criticism over its handling of Iraq.

But in recent weeks, with Rumsfeld gone, Rice has faced increased, and somewhat unfamiliar, criticism. At a Senate hearing on Jan. 11, she confronted a wall of opposition from Republicans as well as Democrats. During three days of hearings last week on Iraq, several of her predecessors were pointed in their disapproval of her job performance.

Former Secretary of State James Baker took issue with Rice’s refusal to engage Syria diplomatically. Back in his day, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “we practiced diplomacy full time, and it paid off.”

Last week, Senators Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona, released three letters demanding that Rice make public the administration’s requirements for actions to be taken by the Iraqi government to earn continued U.S. support. Along with the letters, and Rice’s reply - which indicated that the Iraqis had already missed most of the benchmarks - the senators also released an irate statement.

“Secretary Rice finally provided a response” to the senators’ repeated requests, the statement said. “What Secretary Rice’s letter makes abundantly clear is that the administration does not intend to attach meaningful consequences for the Iraqis continuing to fail to meet their commitments.”

Read more at the International Herald Tribune