ok, i'm just getting disgusted with everyone

Here's another story about the Rice hearing from CoxNews.
I'm glad that a few Democrats are standing up and saying that they think that Rice misled the American people, but then why are they saying that they will still ok her nomination?!
I have really tried to support the dems through these horrific times, because their beliefs are correct, but they are letting them be trampled on by the repugs and are only giving token resistance. We need to make a stand at some point and that means more than just acknowledging that these people are scumbags.
We have to stop them from getting into positions of power, or being promoted into a position of greater power than they already have! These evil-doers should be facing charges, not becoming members of the president's cabinet!
I would never have believed that we could be in worse shape than we were when nixon was president and have worse people in power, but we've managed to do it.
Its enough to make you want to give up on this country, which should be and once was the greatest in the world. Now we're one of the worst. Its embarrassing and sickening.

Condoleezza Rice Challenged by Leading Democrat to Admit Mistakes Bush Administration Made in Iraq

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice acknowledged "there were some bad decisions" by the Bush administration on Iraq, as Democrats pressed her Wednesday on whether the reasons for going to war were misleading. But her approval by the Senate appeared secure.

Rice insisted that Saddam Hussein was a dictator who refused to account for weapons of mass destruction. And it was impossible to change the nature of a terror threat in the Middle East with him leading Iraq, she testified.

But Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., would not be shaken off, even after Rice acknowledged to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "there were some bad decisions" taken by the Bush administration on Iraq.

She accused Rice of "an unwillingness to give Americans the full story because selling the war was so important to Dr. Rice. That was her job."

And now, Boxer said, the toll of American dead and wounded is the "direct result" of Bush administration "rigidness" and misstatements.

Sen. Joseph Biden, ranking Democrat on committee, challenged Rice to acknowledge administration mistakes on Iraq and said he would vote for her confirmation, but only with "some frustration and reservation."

The Delaware senator, zeroing in on U.S. policy in Iraq as he had during Tuesday's initial hearing, accused the administration of giving shifting reasons to justify the war to oust Saddam.
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Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., meanwhile, urged Rice to consider reconciliation with Iran, which he said was about as repressive as China was when the Nixon administration approached Beijing for better relations.

But Rice said, "It is really hard to find common ground with a government that thinks Israel should be extinguished," supports terror groups and is undercutting U.S. peace efforts in the Middle East.
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Committee approval would send the nomination to the Senate where confirmation appears certain _ despite unease, especially among Democrats, about reasons Bush, Powell, Rice and others in the administration gave for going to war in March 2003 and how they are dealing with a deadly postwar insurgency.

At the State Department, Powell planned a farewell speech at midday, while employees were told to gather Friday in the lobby to welcome Rice on what would be her first day in charge of U.S. foreign policy.

Her positions on the war did not stem blistering criticism from Democratic senators. Sen. John Kerry, who made Bush's management of postwar Iraq an issue in his losing presidential campaign, told Rice Tuesday that "the current policy is growing the insurgency and not diminishing it."

"This was never going to be easy," Rice said in response. "There were going to be ups and downs."

She said that after the Iraqis have voted on Jan. 30 for a transitional assembly, the Bush administration would conduct a review.

"We need to be patient," she told Kerry.

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And she continues to lie and be evasive and never admit the lies that led to this terribly managed war that continues to be disastrous. And now she's sowing the seeds for the next war....."We need to be patient"?! shit.......

Update - just saw that she was voted in by a vote of 16-2. Way to stand up to the thugs, dems! Thanks to Barbara Boxer and John Kerry for showing some backbone! We need more!