Interesting enough that I may have to go read up and learn something about the topic

Condi sets out to make the State Department actually show some signs of competence.

Which is long overdue, though I am not informed enough to know whether her new strategies are good ones or not.

And would it really hurt the Bushies so much to admit that Bremer was an ass of the first order and did our cause fairly severe damage in Iraq? I'm no fan of the disloyal opposition (e.g. Murtha and Durbin), but it would make me respect Republican neocons more to hear them admit that Bremer's incompetence has done considerably more actual damage than have Durbin's stupid gulag ramblings.