Condi Says War Opponents Would Condone Slavery

Moving from the absurd to the completely wacko, the Bush administrations orchestrated attack on Iraq war opponents continues with the latest strange salvo.

Secretary of State Rice compared the Iraq war with the American Civil War, telling a magazine that slavery might have lasted longer in this country if the North had decided to end the fight early.

"I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold," Rice said in the new issue of Essence magazine.

"I know there were people who said, 'Why don't we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?'" Rice said.

It was bad enough that Cheney tried to equate war opponents to Neville Chamberlain, but to try to make this crazy analogy is over the edge. This is another sign that the Bush administration is teetering on collapse and will try anything to stay in power. Keep an eye out for some sort of Machiavellian October Surprise.