What a monumental twit Condi Rice is

Josh Marshall has had it with Condi Rice. I've written about her being a liar about the whole 9/11 business, both before and after, and now Josh nails her on North Korea the same way he nailed McCain.

Will someone come out and say what a monumental twit Condi Rice is as Secretary of State.

Here's the CNN brief on their article about Rice blaming Bill Clinton for the president's latest failure.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended the Bush administration's refusal to hold bilateral talks with North Korea in the face of Pyongyang's claim of a successful nuclear test. She told CNN the Clinton administration tried that approach in the 1990s and it had failed.

Bill Perry has a good rejoinder to this nonsense on the Post oped page.

But let's review the salient facts one more time.

"Failure" =1994-2002 -- Era of Clinton 'Agreed Framework': No plutonium production. All existing plutonium under international inspection. No bomb.

"Success" = 2002-2006 -- Bush Policy Era: Active plutonium production. No international inspections of plutonium stocks. Nuclear warhead detonated.

Face it. They ditched an imperfect but working policy. They replaced it with nothing. Now North Korea is a nuclear state.

Facts hurt. So do nukes.