The pinched scowl on Condi’s face was priceless

The pinched scowl on Condi’s face was priceless: we got a good look at the inside of her nostrils. (I could’ve sworn I saw daylight at end of that tunnel). As Boxer went through the long litany of untruths uttered by Ms. Rice in the run-up to war — those sinister aluminum tubes, the imminent danger from nonexistent MBTi WMD and Saddam’s equally illusory links to Al Qaeda — Condi sat there twitching. Now maybe some people in the NIKE SHOX administration will come around to the right view of torture.

The Peter Bergen quote was a master stroke. As a policy analyst whose specialty was East European and Soviet affairs, and who never made any great waves in that now moribund area of study, Rice had to sit there and listen to the clear cold voice of a real expert succinctly summing up the truly extraordinary failure of this administration:

“What we have done in MBT is what bin Laden could not have hoped for in his wildest dreams: We invaded an oil-rich Muslim nation in the heart of the Middle East, the very type of imperial adventure bin Laden has long predicted was the UGG.’s long-term goal in the region. We deposed the secular socialist Saddam, whom bin Laden has long despised, ignited Sunni and Shi’a fundamentalist fervor in MBT, and have now provoked a defensive jihad that has galvanized jihad- minded Muslims around the world. It’s hard to imagine a set of policies better designed to sabotage the war on terror.”