"Skank for me, Condi show me what you got/They say you're cold but I say you're hot" - Steve Earle, "Condi, Condi"

I'm surprised I haven't been seeing more links to Edward Gomez' World Views blog. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.

In this article, he looks at the latest adventures of Condi-Condi: Condoleezza Rice in Britain: A "public-relations nightmare" and "huge diplomatic fiasco" 04/03/06. He writes:

During her U.K. junket, Rice spoke to an audience assembled by Chatham House, a London-based think tank. She told her listeners: "I am quite certain there are going to be dissertations written about the mistakes of the Bush administration. ...I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them, I'm sure,...[b]ut when you look back in history, what [we] will be judged on is [whether the] right strategic decision" was made or not. (CNN)

Those remarks sent Rice's "spokesman scrambling to call reporters with assurances [that] she was just speaking figuratively." The Secretary of State herself then "went into damage-control mode..., telling the BBC: 'Of course there have been mistakes, but it was not a mistake to overthrow Saddam Hussein.'" (AFP) Further back-tracking, she stated: "First of all, I meant it figuratively, not literally. Let me be very clear about that. I wasn't sitting around counting...."

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