I liked this article by Alan Gilbert.

I got in a drunken conversation with some guy tonight about Condi, ending with "She'd be national hero if she turned on the administration."

The trouble is, she can't. Condi played along with the game. By denying any responsibility, she's eradicated her credibility. She is taking the fall.

Perhaps life is just a big chess game; wars both economic and military, terrorism, trade merely tactics. In very narrow terms, you might argue they didn't expect 9/11. But perhaps its not too much too argue that they had an eye out for something over the course of the year, and had a preplanned agenda.

BushCo kills its own...