[gortklattu]

Osama didn't see "US" cut and run from Somalia, they saw Clinton's America cut and run.

Bush stood up and fought tyranny, and the Democrats don't like it one bit. I wonder why....

[GeronL]

I can do anything better than you.

[Asclepius]

Rice defended Bush's asking her to find out if Iraq had a role in 9/11 despite evidence to the contrary: "The president asked a perfectly logical question. We'd just been hit and hit hard."

And shortly after he asked it, The Taliban fell and Tora Bora became a smoking crater, the grave, I am convinced, of OBL, though our choice of weapons deny us the possibility of ever obtaining a forensically verifiable corpse.

Bygones.

[alloysteel]

Rice, catching political heat for her refusal to testify before the 9/11 commission....

Not that Dr. Rice refused to testify, she refused to testify in public. She would appear before them in closed session, and considering the nature of the information she is privy to, that would be absolutely a requirement.

[dirtboy]

It was an interesting night on 60 Minutes. In the past, I have thought that Condi Rice didn't handle interviews too well, being too scripted and wooden. She did a very good job last night, and Ed Bradley clearly was outclassed - he seemed unwilling to even look her in the eye and had a very strange posture during the entire interview, like he couldn't stand to be in the same room with her. And then Mike Wallace did what I thought was an extremely sympathetic piece on Judge Pickering - even to the point where the head of the Mississippi NAACP was shown to be a closed-minded and uninformed idiot when confronted by Medger Ever's son, who is a staunch supporter of Pickering. Imagine that - the old school of civil rights standing up to a race pimp on 60 Minutes - something I never thought I'd see.