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Insiders: Condoleezza Rice could be headed for crapper
US News reports: As White House officials try to control the latest fallout over president Bush's flawed suggestion in the State of the Union address that Iraq was buying nuclear bomb materials, there's growing talk by insiders that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice may take the blame and resign.

For most insiders, it's inconceivable that Rice, touted as a future secretary of state, California governor, and even vice president, would go, but the latest revelations that her shop and deputy Stephen Hadley mishandled CIA warnings have put the NSC in the bull's eye of controversy.

While it's unclear how serious the talk is inside the administration about the future of Rice or Hadley with the NSC, a few top aides are already suggesting replacements for Rice. They include former Bush administration National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, NASA chief and former Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe, and Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq.


Dick to Dems: you're doodoo!
Brave Dick "dick" Cheney crawled out of his well-appointed bunker and struck back at critics of his pass-the-buck boss' Iraq policy yesterday, in a speech hastily arranged to stave off the furor over the bogus intelligence report cited in liar/bungler Smirky McOilpump's State of the Union speech.

Cheney used the phrase "irresponsible in the extreme" three times, implying Democrats are playing partisan politics with national security by charging that the administration hyped the case against Saddam.

"Critics of the liberation of Iraq must also answer another question: What would that country look like today if we had failed to act?" he said.

"If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power ... the torture chambers would still be in operation, the prison cells for children would still be filled, the mass graves would still be undiscovered," he said. Meanwhile, in Liberia and N Korea.......

For all his bombast, the chickenshit chickenhawk chose a friendly, partisan, conservative think-tank as his audience. Not only did he once work there, but his wife, the humorless harpy Lynne, is a senior fellow there. - - - from the NY Daily News.