What's that smell?

Oh yeah...it's desperation. One week, Administration opponents are comparable to facsists and Nazis. The next, they're slave lovers (h/t Atrios). The stench just gets stronger and stronger.

Secretary of State Rice compared the Iraq war with the American Civil War, telling a magazine that slavery might have lasted longer in this country if the North had decided to end the fight early.

"I'm sure there are people who thought it was a mistake to fight the Civil War to its end and to insist that the emancipation of slaves would hold," Rice said in the new issue of Essence magazine.

"I know there were people who said, 'Why don't we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?'" Rice said.

Of course, as commenter jc notes, this could backfire, as the Republican base is made up of folks who probably don't look back on slavery all that regretfully. Better stick with the ragheads and the Nazis, Condi.