Philadelphia Steve:

The reason behind Secretary Rice's statement?

That, to me, is obvious. The Bush Administration considers itself completely unaccountable for anything it says or does. And so far that has proven to be absolutely correct.

When one is completely immune to consequences of any kind, then it does not matter one bit what one says. The words can be inconsistent, wrong, or complete nonsense. It does not matter because no one will be held to account.

So, the Bush Administration just puts out words and phrases from which FoxNews can extract nice sound bites for the evening broadcast. Neither the Republican Media, nor anyone else for that matter, will broadcast or reprint an entire speech, so that everyone can see that the Bush team is lying, wrong and incompetent.

It is not that they COULDN'T tell the truth. They just don't care. And there is no reason they have to care.

"Impeachment is off the table"-Nancy Pelosi

So to review, you can get impeached for lying about getting a blow job, but not for lying about how much you knew about 9/11 (couple hundred others in there...starting an illegal war, ignoring an entire city while it drowned, etc...) through issuing empty threats at a large country and former arch-enemy who has a violent leader and nuclear weapons. Way to go Bush, way to go Pelosi, thank you for screwing us over.