Rice & Iraq

Even senior White House officials know Iraq is a major FUBAR.

In an analysis of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s efforts to “reshape her legacy,” New York Times reporter Helene Cooper notes today that Rice “is trying hard to rewrite her legacy to include something more than Iraq.” As for Iraq, Rice’s “colleagues and friends say that she has accepted that Iraq is a stain that she probably cannot remove before she leaves office.”

Like Nixon, Condi will probably try to reinvent herself. Iraq is one truth she will not escape from. Nor should she.