Reply #2: something I found of interest to your point

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http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/RICE0126.html;COXnetJSessionID=B7ThZCei2h22LipD1hJE1gDvyX7UAFDKGrC9gM9QaVxEarq5efJE!-734881293?urac=n&urvf=11069899851420.6135766211017741



Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., one of those critics, argued that Rice's confirmation is vital because "she has the president's confidence," and the president needs someone who will be "brutally frank" with him after the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

I think that this is why she's there. She's running the shit.


"We are at war ... (and) in times like these it is important that the world not only knows that this secretary of state has the ear of the president, but that she has – if you will allow me to put it this way – America's heart," Lieberman said.

Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwww, no he didn't say that!!!.