GUEST: it pains me to reply to a "Guest" but I must.

Your post, in which you express your personal views, is well written but, in my opinion, off base.

You have no evidence that Powell, Rumsfield, or anyone else from the current administration lied to the commission. You just want to BELIEVE that they did!

Your attitude, which is as cemented in stone every bit as much as mine ...though we are diametrically opposed in point of view, is the very reason I think it is unimportant whether or not Condi Rice testifies before the committee under oath.

She is not going to say anything that she has not told the commission before, EXCEPT, she, more than perhaps anyone else, is in a position to refute the charges Clarke made against the Bush administration and she may do so. So those of you who are Bush haters may regret that she is testifying. She may burst your bubble! She may prove Clarke wrong.

But ...you will not believe her.

DougR