War Liberal

Curiously, in the articles on Iraq I've seen lately, there'€™s absolutely no mention of our esteemed National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. If I'm not mistaken, I believe she relieved Rumsfeld of his high-level handling of Iraq.

Does make one wonder just what she's been doing all this time since the big dramatic turnover.

I was most interested in this passage from Paul Krugman's latest article concerning Iyad Allawi's attempt to distance himself just a bit from the US:

But when Mr. Allawi proposed an amnesty for insurgents - a move that was obviously calculated to show that he wasn't an American puppet - American officials, probably concerned about how it would look at home, stepped in to insist that insurgents who have killed Americans be excluded. Inevitably, this suggestion that American lives matter more than Iraqi lives led to an unraveling of the whole thing, so Mr. Allawi now looks like a puppet.

Condoleezza's idea? Seems to me this idea clearly came from those who, as the saying goes, never heard a shot fired in anger.
I can't imagine a single soldier in the history of the world who would admit to his comrades that he never killed any of the enemy. Even if a member of the Iraqi resistance could prove such a thing, why in the heck would he embarrass himself by doing so?