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Condoleezza Rice on vacation during Russia-Georgia conflict

The Bush administration continues to redefine incompetence

[I]f the stakes are high, you wouldn't know it from Washington's early reaction. The administration of George W. Bush has been slow to respond, with the President making cautious statements of condemnation over the weekend at the Olympic games in Beijing, and Condoleezza Rice remaining on vacation and oddly absent from public view. 

Considering the gravity of the situation in Georgia, would it be too much to ask our Secretary of State to cut her vacation short?

More from Attaturk at FDL and Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone.