Rattle wrote:
Apparently the heat is being turned up on Condi Rice by various parties in Bush's own garage.. The charge appears to be lead by Richard Perle, whom I was amused to learn carries the nickname "The Prince of Darkness". That does seem fitting. An op-ed he published in the Washington Post is rumored to be circling around within the West Wing and DoD circles. The obvious thrust, right out of the Iraq playbook, is to get more push for regime change in Iran. Both sides of the partisan divide have been linking this article from Insight the past day.

For what its worth, Insight is part of the Moonie media constellation. I stopped reading it about 15 years ago when they publish a long rant about how America shouldn't covert over to the metric system because the metric system doesn't make any sense. If you aren't smart enough to understand the metric system I don't trust you to explain world events to me.

The most interesting comment in this article is:

The critics within the administration expect a backlash against Miss Rice that could lead to her transfer in wake of the congressional elections in 2006. They said by that time even Mr. Bush will recognize the failure of relying solely on diplomacy in the face of Iran's nuclear weapons program.

If the hawks sack the nation's top diplomat in the process of demonstrating that diplomacy has failed it will be the most contrived act of political theater since the Monica Lewinsky scandal. I'm thinking of starting a website that hands out fake Emmy awards each year to politicians.

RE: Pressure on Condi...