This is so reductive. If you want to talk about Rice's record as Secretary of State, lets talk about reality and leave the glib political posturing for campaig

This is so reductive. If you want to talk about Rice's record as Secretary of State, lets talk about reality and leave the glib political posturing for campaign speeches. * She almost definitely did not advise anyone to spend 1.7 trillion dollars on anything. Did she know how costly the war would be? Should she have known? * "Obviously shaky" is easy to say in hindsight. What did she know when? What should she have known? * Did she even advise the President to go to war? We don't know what she said behind closed doors. SecState works at the pleasure of the President-- it is entirely possible she opposed the war personally and in private counsel, but played the good soldier in public. * If she did personally oppose the war to your satisfaction, was it wrong of her to play the good soldier, regardless of the circumstances? I tend to think so. But was it so wrong that she should be blacklisted from public life? Life is messy.