What's With Condi Rice?

What's with Condi Rice? She was supposed to be a moderating and even humanizing force in the second Bush Administration -- that was the advanced word, anyway. OK --she gave a speech in Paris early in 2005 saying the US wanted to work with its European allies and then she even authorized the UN to allow the International Criminal Court (which Bush detests) to try war criminals in Darfur. But what's happened since then -- she permitted the appointment of UN-wrecker John Bolton to be the new American envoy to the UN. He subsequently destroyed a genuine reform movement in the organization last August and now he threatens to withhold US dues -- or even go so far as to create our own international body -- if the US does not get its way on management changes. Every horror story ever associated with this unilateral fanatic is starting to come true. Then Condi tells the Europeans on Monday, December 5, in reference to possible American prison camps in Eastern Europe, that, whether they exist or not, the US does not practice torture on its inmates. But as ABC pointed out in its evening news broadcast that same Monday, she says this knowing full well that the CIA manual on torture defines the crime so narrowly that everything short of murder is permitted as acceptable treament of prisoners while not legally being labelled torture. In other words, Condi is turning out to be just another pathetic shill for the despicable policies of this shameless White House. Even Secretary of State Powell had regrets; this dame has none.