Dump Condi?

Well, first of all, Bush is not going to dump any of his friends no matter how incompetent they are. If he hasn't dumped Rumsfeld, he is not going to dump Condi. Besides, how is this her foreign policy? She is just following orders - as most Bush loyalists do. That's why she was appointed. To blame her for being ignorant of the Middle East is stupid. Obviously if anyone in Bush's administration knew the Middle East, we wouldn't be entreneched in multiple conflicts there. It's basically too little too late for all of these conservatives to come out of the woodwork with their criticism of the President now. They should have stood up to him prior to him getting re-elected. Now they are stuck just like the rest of us are.

Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda.

The conservatives, who include Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle and leading current and former members of the Pentagon and National Security Council, have urged the president to transfer Miss Rice out of the State Department and to an advisory role. They said Miss Rice, stemming from her lack of understanding of the Middle East, has misled the president on Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"The president has yet to understand that people make policy and not the other way around," a senior national security policy analyst said. "Unlike [former Secretary of State Colin] Powell, Condi is loyal to the president. She is just incompetent on most foreign policy issues."

The criticism of Miss Rice has been intense and comes from a range of Republican loyalists, including current and former aides in the Defense Department and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. They have warned that Iran has been exploiting Miss Rice's inexperience and incompetence to accelerate its nuclear weapons program. They expect a collapse of her policy over the next few months.

These sudden complainers need to suck it up and watch the global train wreck right along with the rest of the world ... 'cause it's a comin'.