Hope your shoes hurt

Rice is going to be in full glower over in Europe it appears.

Just before she leaves for a trip to Europe on Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to offer the Bush administration's first studied defense in the debate over reports of a network of secret prisons for terror suspects in several European countries.

But even as she tries to quell concerns, a senior aide said, Ms. Rice would not confirm that the prisons exist. That has been the government's stance since news articles about the prisons were published early last month.

Studied defense?

Yeh, right.

They've studied how happy it makes Bush & Cheney to contemplate some olive-skinned "heathen" strapped up to a board and dipped in one of three dippin' sauces. I'm guessing Dick is a "honey-mustard" guy.