Rice won’t be pushed around
The AP reports that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signaled her unwillingness to appear, yet again, before a congressional committee to respond to questions she has already answered.
The Secretary of State did agree, however, to respond by mail to questions concerning the Bush administration’s prewar claims about Saddam Hussein seeking weapons of mass destruction from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
I’ve got tons of questions but I’ll ask just one. Why have they not called Nancy Pelosi to task and harassed her over this? In 1998 (while Bill Clinton was President) Nancy Pelosi said that “Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
Clinton was president so she can’t blame Bush for “misleading” her in this instance. But she’s not even bothering to stick by her comments. Now Pelosi says “the president

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