Can Someone Please Lock This Woman Up?

At least until the hallucinogens wear off, anyway. You can't have a National Security Adviser this high, can you? The latest from the not-so-estimable Dr. Rice:

As President Bush begins a week of foreign diplomacy, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice insists that he will one day rank alongside such towering pillars of 20th century statecraft as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

"Statesmanship has to be judged first and foremost by whether you recognize historic opportunities and seize them," Rice said in an interview with Cox Newspapers.

"When you think of statesmen, you think of people who seized historic opportunities to change the world for the better, people like Roosevelt, people like Churchill, and people like Truman, who understood the challenges of communism. And this president has been an agent of change for the better -- historic change for the better."

Wow. She's smoking some serious chronic, right?

She goes on, in her chemically-induced haze, to say that

She praised the invasion Bush ordered that toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, where Rice said democracy is taking root and "women are being schooled, not beaten,where people are planting their crops and building their stores and building their homes without fear of being whipped in a public stadium."

Emphasis added.

People are planting their crops, alright--opium poppies!

Which, when you think about how blasted out of her mind Dr. Rice is, might be why she's so enamored of Bush's efforts. She can get the good stuff now. Woo hoo!