Flawed comparison; Baghdad, Gaza aren't Birmingham.(OPED)

Byline: Diana West, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

I wonder if Condoleezza Rice was surprised by the headlines over her comment to The Washington Times that America suffers from a national "birth defect" - namely, the practice of slavery at the time of the nation's founding.

Make that the first founding. She said she considers the civil-rights movement to be the nation's "second founding." The secretary of state made another point. She said that "one of the primary things" that attracted her to the candidacy of President Bush "was not actually foreign ...

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