Finally, somebody recognizes that Rice deserves the blame. Remember that on October 6, 2003 President Bush assigned his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the authority to manage postwar Iraq naming her as head of Iraq Stabilization Group.

She has been wrong from the get-go. Nobody asked questions. Consider this exchange from Sept. 28, 2003 … five months after the invasion.

MEET THE PRESS : Why did the administration so dramatically underestimate the cost of this war?
DR. RICE: We did not have perfect foresight into what we were going to find in Iraq. The fact of the matter is that this deteriorated infrastructure, one that was completely covered and covered over by the gleaming pictures of Baghdad that made it look like a first-world city …

Why didn’t someone ask the UN Inspectors what the level of electricity was in the country ? They were on the ground and would know what was going on.

Rich points out the administration’s line portraying Iraq’s current violence as a Qaeda plot hatched by the Samarra bombing of February 2006.
Why didn’t Rice realize that when the Jordanian Embassy was bombed in August of 2003 and then less than two weeks later, the UN Headquarters, that there were serious problems? Wasn’t the other key turning point the mutilation of American private contractors in Fallujah in April of 2004? Those events happened long before the Samarra bombing.

Rice’s statement last Sunday the “The question of imminence isn’t whether or not somebody is going to strike tomorrow” seems counter to the National Security Strategy of 2002 which argued “We must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilites and objectives of today’s adversaries.”

And even if it is accepted that intelligence errors before the war were “worldwide” while discounting IAEA ElBaradei and Germany’s intelligence service comments, the fact is that even if everyone from Bill Clinton and Jacques Chirac believed the WMD capablities of Saddam, they did not invade Iraq on that basis.

I have said if since 2003, Rice has preformed horribly yet get virtually no blame.

My darkest fear is, however, that the Bush cancer is right at this minute metastasizing in a serious and lethal way throughout all Islam and even beyond.

Currently hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees are fleeing the insanity we created out of their country. And every one of them is spreading a deep and profound hatred of the U.S. Don’t forget, these guys don’t forgive and forget that easily. Bush has inspired a world-wide hatred that could last generations and ultimately bring our country to ruin and even annhilation.