Because, you know, the War Party has demonstrated such masterful understanding of how to handle the Mideast

Dump Condi: Foreign policy conservatives charge State Dept. has hijacked Bush agenda

Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administrationâ?Ts national security and foreign policy agenda.

The conservatives, who include Newt Gingrich, Richard Perle and leading current and former members of the Pentagon and National Security Council, have urged the president to transfer Miss Rice out of the State Department and to an advisory role. They said Miss Rice, stemming from her lack of understanding of the Middle East, has misled the president on Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Here's a piece on how the Bushies' masterful understanding of the Middle East has done a masterful job of masterfully alienating the people we were liberating in Iraq.

Nonetheless, the key need of the Bush Administration is "loyalty", according to Insight:

Miss Rice served as Mr. Bush's national security adviser in his first
term. During his second term, Miss Rice replaced Mr. Powell in the wake of a conclusion by the White House that Mr. Bush required a loyalist to head the State Department and ensure that U.S. foreign policy reflected the president's agenda.

Yet now Condi too is becoming dangerously "disloyal" and must be replaced lest her view from outside the hothouse disturb the best laid plans of the People Who Really Understand What's Going On with counsels of peace and restraint rather than ever-expanding war and brutal realpolitik that have served us and the people of the Middle East so well so far.