I have heard people say how brilliant she is.
There is a difference between actually being smart and sentence structure and word usage in order to "appear" smart.
She gives all the "appearances" but she is just another shill for the Bush oil agenda.
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Rice Falsely Claims That Iraqis Don’t Believe They Are In A Civil WarLast night on CBS, Katie Couric asked Condoleezza Rice if she believes “the civil war in Iraq is likely to deteriorate significantly over the next few months.” Rice responded that Iraq is not a civil war because “the Iraqis don’t see it that way.” Rice added, “it really doesn’t help to speak about their circumstance as a civil war, in terms that they don’t speak about their circumstances.”
Watch the interview:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/01/iraq-rice-civil-war/ON EDIT: pic and link change. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/05/MN223743.DTL---