We all want accountability -- don't we?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded accountability on Friday after a U.N. report said high-ranking Syrian officials and their Lebanese allies were involved in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.

'Accountability is going to be very important for the international community,' Rice told reporters as she flew with Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for a tour of Alabama. 'We cannot have the specter of one state's apparatus having participated or having been involved in the assassination of the former prime minister ... in another state.'

In Bubba Rice's terms, the "international community" wants accountability. So what are Americans getting? Who's accountable for lying to Americans about the imminent threat posed by Iraq? Who's accountable for Powell's "blotted" speech to the UN Security Council? (Not Bubba Colin -- he blamed it on bad intelligence!)

So where's the accountability, Bubba Rice? I agree with you, we should have it, now come up with it!

And while you're banging the war drum about "one state can't be involved in the assassination of so-and-so ... in another state", how about the assassination of tens of thousands of Iraqis by the US-UK "coalition"? Is that OK?