Condi plays dress up

"Rice's coat and boots speak of sex and power -- such a volatile combination, and one that in political circles rarely leads to anything but scandal" gushed the WaPo reporter.

Of course the neither the airhead who was writing for style section of the Post, nor her editor, could have been thinking of Abu Ghraib, or the now famous Gonzales torture memo, or the ongoing feeble investigations of a varitety of abuses.

This is, after all, the incompetent National Security Advisor, who not only failed to act on the warnings about Al Quaida but did tell us that Iraq had WMD's, walking out in fashionable jackboots at a military base in Germany.