Actually.....it's Condi's fault

Thanks to Maru, here's a flashback from October 2003:

President Bush is giving his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, the authority to manage postwar Iraq and the rebuilding of Afghanistan.

While some saw it as a sign of frustration with the handling of postwar efforts, Bush and other officials said the move is a logical next step and reflected no dissatisfaction with progress.

"We want to cut through the red tape and make sure that we're getting the assistance there quickly so that they can carry out their priorities," Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said. "It's a new phase, a different phase we're entering."

And she's done a smash-up job of it, too.

I do now remember when this news came out wondering WTF?! (Thanks again, Maru) The National Security Adviser in charge of postwar management? What a riot. They're still calling it "post" war.

At any rate, regardless of all the calls for Rumsfiend's head, I am stubbornly sticking to my call that Miss Condi's will be the first of the head heads to roll. And that, I think is because the boys will gang up on her and convince the Oaf to throw her to the sharks. And I don't think she'll see it coming. It should be much easier after having given her the responsibility for the impossible.

Rumsfiend's not going anywhere. Just like all the clamor about Tenet falling on his sword and Powell being the odd man out all the time. It'll go away when the next fiasco hits the front pages. And there will be one.