Rice and the rest of the administration refuse to take an oath because they know they are lying through their teeth. Clarke has in no way been discredited, contrary to what DougR would have you believe. It will get nastier and nastier in weeks to come as they dig out whatever possible or invented dirt they can find on the guy. Maybe he filched some pennies from his mother's pocketbook when he was 6. Crucify him! Kerry's comments on the Republicans were too kind. Not only the worst bunch of liars, but shameless, hypocritical, gutless, arrogant, and crass.

The victims of our aggression in Iraq and the hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded American soldiers are not just so much political capital to be spent by the likes of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rice and Bush et. al. for whatever ideological corner they have painted themselves into and believe in so desperately. And DOugR don't bother to trot out your "what about what Saddam Hussein did to his own people' arguments, that does not justify our doing more of the same. Never will. 'two wrongs' and all that, do the math.