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So I turned on "This Week" this morning, and the guest is the US Secretary of Making Things Worse, Condaleeza Rice. George Stephanopolous asked her if, as Congress has asked about (Republicans no less), Iraq does become embroiled in a civil war (BTW, if??), Bush would pull US troops out. It seems clear that much of Congress does not want the troops to stay there if there is a civil war.

Rice's response is that the question is a hypothetical (it contains the word if, after all), and she won't answer hypotheticals.

This is the same administration that has adopted Dick Cheney's 1% Solution, where if (there's that word again) there's a 1% chance that someone could be planning an attack on the US, we have to act pre-emptively and attack first. So we'll invade foreign countries based on a 1% fear, but knowing that Iraq is undergoing the worst sectarian violence since we've been there, where the chance of civil war has to be much greater than 1%, Secretary of Horrible Diplomacy Rice can't even discuss what we might do if it did break out.

Of course, we know this government never plans ahead, so maybe they really don't know.