This didn't take long did it? Using the Al Gore school of excuses, she unfolds her version of "they lied to us, they played on our fears". Ms Pelosi now says after all her other explanations that she and congress were lied to. That foxy cagy bush guy. Funny how the Dem party paints Pres Bush as the dumbest hick in the world, yet, he was so skillful at manipulating them into a war, economic distress, and now torture complicity. How long is that excuse going to fly? Don't they realize they only look like the stupider of the two when they admit mr bush was able to so easily play them for suckers to get what he wanted done? How gullible are they, or were they just really complicit and refuse to acknowledge it. I can't for the life of me see why there were so many briefings on a method that was supposedly never used or going to be used. When the hand is found up to the elbow in the cookie jar, you're taking cookies. No if's and 's or but's. If she and the others had an ounce of honesty they would just say "We thought we were doing the right thing, and further events proved that to be correct." Simple, done case closed. But like Nixon learned, it's the cover up that kills you. Unfortunately, a huge portion of americans will believe her because, well, she's a democrat. And that trumps everything. If she doesn't step aside in the next few weeks, any investigation will prove her to be such a liar, and used her lies to bash the opposition needlessly, that the house will have no choice but to boot her out on her botox laden face. We'll see how her husbands business interests are able to survive if that happens. In the real world she'd have to learn to live like the "little people", but there's probably plenty already stashed away to prevent that. This woman is certainly no leader, she's incompetent and inefective. She truly must be removed. The sooner the better.