Rice for Supreme Court a bad suggestion to Biden

Louis Berardi’s suggestion to President Biden (Letters, Feb. 7) to nominate Condoleezza Rice as the black woman he’s promised to nominate to the Supreme Court could not be more inappropriate.

While her resume jobs titles of political scientist, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, professor, administrator are impressive, her record is horrendous. She was one of the chief architects and promoters of our immoral, senseless; indeed criminal Iraq war in 2003. Her work helped shatter Iraq into a still broken country with hundreds of thousands dead, millions forced to flee, and no stable government left in its wake. We still defile Iraq with a token force of soldiers two years after the Iraqi Parliament demanded we leave for the drone attack that killed 10 Iraqi and Iranian military officials.

Rice was key to selling the war with her widely trumpeted statement to justify the unjustifiable: “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud’.

In a just world Rice would be in criminal court to answer charges of war crimes, not on the Supreme Court deciding Constitutional Law.