[oceanview]

I think there is way too much optimism on FR about how her testimony will go. The Dems aren't just going to walk into this without something up their sleeve, without some new line of questioning for her when she testifies. I can think of a few areas of questioning that would be very dangerous ground: this whole issue of the Saudis involvement, and this issue of whether there was an attempt to "deal" with the Taliban prior to 9/11 with this whole pipeline thing. I'm not saying that I believe that stuff myself, so please don't flame me. All I am saying is that there will be some new lines of attacks by the Dems, they are not giving up on this issue.

[ironman]

Condi needs to be prepared. I hope she's working on her opening statement right now and puts to rest the many myths and urban legends the dems and the media spew.

[livius]

The Dems are going to be awful, unfair, treasonous, vicious, etc. But don't forget - Condoleeza Rice has already survived the worst this world has to offer: academia (when she was Provost of Stanford).

[hershey]

The RATs are already showing that TV clip of Condi saying that before 9/11 no one would have imagined terrorists would use four 747's (or whatever the size plane), to slam into the World Trade Center, etc. Their point is that she or the CIA had already been given a heads up about the possible use of planes as flying bombs. The RATs on the committee will throw that at her six ways to Texas, implying that she either was A. incompetent, or B. lying and covering up Bush incompetence. And CBS, et. al. will replay those smarmy questions at length, ad nauseum, and then not replay her answers. They want nothing less than to drive Condi from public life.

Rising gas prices and the Saudi's forcing Opec to cut production today despite Bush admin. behind the scenes pressure give Kerry another whack at Bush. You can bet the committee will have the Saudis and oil dependence on the list of talking points next week.

By the way, we should level Fallujah.