Like watching an ugly train wreck.  And it will only get worse. I read the whole WaPo-article - the pressure is getting to her.
In spite of her denial:
BBC:  Rice shrugs off UK visit protests

of Rice and Jack Straw walking on a London street where hundreds of people had turned out to protest the invasion and heckle them. The scene was truly surreal because the two of them were smiling and waving as though the jeers were cheers.

Isn't there a psychiatric term for creating your own reality?

Condi "We Don't Torture" Rice has no credibility in Europe and it seems, Bush is taking blows on the homefront.

10 or 15 years from now this bunch will all face their Pinochet's fate. If not sooner; as Shiites are questioning our truthiness and calling the situation their 2nd grand betrayal.

Quite to point Prof. Juan Cole, in his today's post, notes the US has lost the support of Shiites, that's 60% of the population.

Ayatollah Yaqubi Demands Khalilzad's Expulsion
Maliki: "US Will Destroy Iraq"

[..] [Some prominent Shiite clerics used their Friday sermons to call for the expulsion from Iraq [Ar.] of US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

In a communique from his offices in Najaf, Yaqubi said, "American administration figures have denied the existence of a sectarian war in Iraq. They are either misguided by statements lacking in objectivity and truthfulness sent back by the sectarian American ambassador in Iraq and his like, or they are deliberately denying this reality for more than one reason."

1. They don't want to admit their failure in Iraq for fear of damaging the reputation of the United States, and want to convince themselves and others that they have succeeded in protecting Iraqi citizens from tyranny, oppression, killing and expropriation, and have founded a true democracy in Iraq.

2. They are buying time in hopes of implementing their plans for sidelining the Shiite majority

3. Recognizing the true situation would force them to attempt to resolve it, which they do not want to do or are unable to do.[..]

Header noted: "US will destroy Iraq"
 

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Everyone has been writing a lot about this statement from Condi, but I think they have misread what she is actually saying:

"I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them I'm sure," Rice said. "But when you look back in history, what will be judged is, did you make the right strategic decisions."

BushCo has repeatedly stated that commanders on the ground make the tactical decisions. Rice may be blaming tactical errors on the commanders and troops on the ground because they are responsible for planning and carrying out tactical decisions. Following the right wing smear machine, she probably wants to shift blame onto the media for tactical failures because they embolden the enemy as if Boy King George wasn't the one that said, "Bring 'em on!" Condi is claiming the right strategic decisions were made by the Cheney misadministration because they did the strategic planning.

It all went to hell when Reagan was elected President. -- DinStL

Iraq and the US in tatters, and she doesn't know if Iraq was a good or bad decision?

She should just STFU.

(Sorry, I am being a prick. Real words fail me.)

There are LIVES in the balance. Click here. Watch. Listen.

1. Bush for President.

2. Neocons are smart.

3. PDRs are boring.

4.  Al Quada is a joke.

......

1001.  Come to England.

1002.  Convince British Iraq invasion is good.

I believe her.   Many, many, many, many tactical errors!