If only it were true, Condoleezza (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online): "During her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week, Condoleezza Rice was grilled about when U.S. troops can come home from Iraq.

The president%u2019s nominee for secretary of state, hewing closely to administration talking points, said America's 150,000 troops can return home when enough Iraqis are trained to take their place.

So how many Iraqis are ready for the job? No less a conservative authority than The Economist, the respected British magazine, put the number at 10,000 in a report this week. Other reports have put the number much lower.

Rice, who's supposed to know, pegged it closer to 120,000."

(Via Google News.)