From Transcript: Exchange Between Senator Barbara Boxer and Secretary Condoleeza Rice (this is Secretary Rice speaking): “It was the purpose of Zarqawi to try and stoke sectarian violence…Zawahiri himself was even concerned that this might be a bad policy, but it turns out to have been a very smart one because in fact through the bombing of the Golden Mosque, he accelerated this sectarian violence to the point that it now has presented us with a new set of circumstances.” The question we have to ask ourselves is whether that move put us in checkmate.