Rice-A-Phony

Lawrence O'Donnell has been steadily gaining my respect since taking over for Olbermann at MSNBC, and this interview with former Bush adviser Condi Rice on Thursday was amazing, if only in the clear fact that O'Donnell immediately pegged Rice's problem:



Rice refused to answer any of O'Donnell's questions based on what we knew now in 2011 about Iraq and Saddam Hussein, she kept going back to 2002 and 2003 and the pretty sad excuse of "Well at the time we did the right thing."  At one point Rice was so flustered she threatened to walk out of the interview, clearly unused to anyone actually asking her hard questions in the last eight years or so, and she resorted to treating O'Donnell with the tone usually reserved for an errant schoolchild on several occasions.

She spent the entire interview living in 2003, refusing to even consider that taking the focus off bin Laden in order to invade Iraq might have been a bad idea.  But we're supposed to give the lion's share of the credit for OBL's death to the folks that failed to stop bin Laden in the first place and then failed to catch him so we could go after Iraq?

Idiocy at its finest.

[UPDATE]  Steve M. in the comments gives us the FOX Nation headline:

"Condi Rice Manhandles Sputtering NBC News Anchor"

No shame.  No regret.  No remorse.  No goddamn clue.

And you're a terrorist sympathizer if you fail to believe for a millisecond that Bush was the greatest President this nation ever had.