Condi Rice getting her lie on

Condi Rice tried to get some pre-damage-control ahead of the 60 Minutes' George Tenet interview Sunday night. Some highlights:

- "I don't know what we were supposed to pre-emptively strike in Afghanistan" (after Rice was confronted with Tenet's assertion that he suggested we go on the "offensive" regarding Afghanistan in July 2001, in response to intelligence that said an attack was "imminent," to which she responded by, in essence, ignoring him.)

- It depends on what your definition of "imminent" is: "...the question of imminence isn't whether or not someone will strike tomorrow, it's whether you believe you're in a stronger position today to deal with the threat or whether you're going to be in a stronger position tomorrow."

- "We all thought — including U.N. inspectors — that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. So there’s no blame here of anyone." Too bad that isn't quite true.

Sadly for Condi, and her "Siamese twin", her "bad boy", her husb... uh, the guy in the Oval Office, a State Department report on terrorism to be released soon shows terrorism has increased by 29% in 2006. Condi tried to stall the release of that report, to no avail.