Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on today’s bombing of the Iraqi Parliament in the heavily fortified ‘Green Zone’ in Baghdad as reported by the Guardian in Bush Condemns Green Zone Attack:

At the State Department, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the attack showed terrorists were determined to destroy the Iraqi people’s dreams of democracy, but did not mean that Bush’s troop increase in Iraq had failed.

“This is still early in the process and I don’t think anyone expected that there wouldn’t be counter-efforts by terrorists to undermine the security presence,” she said.

Don’t admit failure or mismanagement for any reason, and portray yourself and the Administration you belong to as so exceedingly stupid as to say “I don’t think anyone expected that there wouldn’t be counter-efforts by terrorists…”

R i g h t…

…and fish don’t swim, and birds don’t fly, and Ms. Rice received her degree from Bob and Larry’s School of Secretarial Science.