The Bush administration post mortems keep pouring in, the latest from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who sat down with CBS Sunday Morning for an interview to air the Sunday after Christmas. In between defending the decision to invade Iraq—"it's not a popularity contest," she insists—and talking up America's current standing in international circles, Rice dishes a little on interpersonal Cabinet relations. Asked if she managed to get through every meeting with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld without shouting, she allows, “Oh, I won't say that...I've not won every internal debate, but one thing that you have to understand is they are debates. They're not fights to the death between people.”
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