Hypotheticals

On ABC's This Week With George Stephanopolous, Secretary of State Rice referred to civil war in Iraq as a "hypothetical." She added that "I'm not going to deal with a hypothetical and that's what this is. This is a hypothetical. Because I think what General Abizaid was saying -- and the tense is very important here. He said -- he didn't say they're sliding to civil war. He said that, yes, the sectarian violence is as bad as he's ever seen it. But he made very clear that we have the forces and, he believes, the plan to prevent any slide to civil war."

Below is a photo from her appearance on the show: