Doug, anyone who has witnessed the Bush administration's full court press in the media in the last week already knows what Rice will testify to, and what she won't testify.

You think the oath means anything to people like them? The only reason why the oath part is meaningful to them is because of it's legal ramifications--they can get nailed with more criminal charges for what they say under oath. Which is why what we will get is nitpicking as a stonewalling tactic. Even when asked pointedly direct questions, these pros don't answer, they hedge, respond vaguely that they stand by what they said previously, they disagree with the interpretations of their critics, blah blah blah.

But they NEVER address the charges directly. Never.

We won't learn a thing from Rice's testimony, just as we didn't learn a thing from Powell's testimony or Rumsfeld's. None of them will ever admit the intentionally lied to deceive the American public and Congress, even though it is now the conventional wisdom that is exactly what the Bush White House does as standard operating procedure.

Even the majority of people in other countries believe that. Even half of the American voters believe it in this instance.

Only the blind ideologues like yourself can't see it Doug. But the rest of us have sat here watching the Bush deception unravel. All we are left to wonder now is, will the unraveling make any difference, or is their grip on power too great for our democracy to be saved?