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Senior Aide to Colin Powell: Cheney 'cabal' hijacked US foreign policy
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Posted on 10/20/2005 3:58:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The liberal media should have a field day with this. They actually get to use the word "cabal."
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posted on
10/20/2005 3:59:20 AM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Sounds like the whine of a sore loser in battles between State, DOD and the WH.
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10/20/2005 4:00:15 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
(read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Colin Powell is gone, VP Cheney is still in office. Get over it. All this backbiting is so typical of politicians who are pissed at being on the outside. And our enemies in the media love it and shout it from the housetops.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:01:10 AM PDT
by
armydawg1
(" Amierca must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Thanks for the post. Interesting that the pro Powell crowd fails to recognize that someone else makes a credible case that Powell's position weakened the US. They don't have to agree but it would help to recognize the other side.
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10/20/2005 4:03:14 AM PDT
by
saveliberty
(I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The comments, made at the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank...Think tank. Snort. Guess who's on the board, among others, of the New America Foundation? One Steven Rattner. There are some other interesting names as well. No wonder this guy appeared there.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:04:13 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
What is this all about? We have seen the politicization of the CIA with Wilson and his wife,now the State Department and where are the stories from the Pentagon? President Bush, a man of great loyalty has been dis-served by lack of loyalty, sometimes to both Bush and the country.
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10/20/2005 4:07:05 AM PDT
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paguch
To: governsleastgovernsbest
http://dailydemarche.blogspot.com/
A blog by members of the State Department Republican Underground- conservative Foreign Service Officers serving overseas commenting on foreign policy and global reactions to America.
"Clear, Hold and Build
Secretary of State Rice once again today reinforced my belief that she is the right person, in the right place, at the right tome, for the job. Questioned by the Senate today on an "exit strategy" for Iraq, Dr. Rice put forth the idea that the goal of our strategy in Iraq is to Clear areas from insurgent control, to hold them securely, and to build durable, national Iraqi institutions." She then stood her ground, and gave excellent answers to ridiculous questions. Case in point:
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:07:20 AM PDT
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
A lot of innuendo; few facts.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:07:27 AM PDT
by
Real Cynic No More
(Al-Jazeera is to the Iraqi War as CBS was to the Vietnam War.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The oil price spike's blowback. A lot of that windfall profit in Saudi coffers flows out into the PR machines of the Beltway and Greater Foggy Bottom.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:14:22 AM PDT
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bvw
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:14:24 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I wonder, is this guy Wilkerson writing a book? Usually, guys like him come out of the woodwork to make allegations like these only to sell something.
Much as I liked and admired General Powell, I never thought he was the right choice for Secretary of State. I will say this, though, his reluctance to speaking out against the President, whatever problems he might have had as Secretary of State, shows he has a helluva lot more class than Wilkerson.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Please Colin, follow the advice of Genral McArthur: OLD SOLDIERS JUST FADE AWAY - PLEASE! Don't be a sore loser, although you are!
To: governsleastgovernsbest
that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. The "bureaucracy" is there to implement the decisions of the National Command Authority; not the other way around.
Quite often, the "bureaucracy" tends to ignore that fact.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:20:51 AM PDT
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clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
These people just can't get over the fact that
George W. Bush is in charge of the government's foreign policy.
I remember an interview someone was doing with Henry Kissinger and the interviewer started a question with, "Now you were in charge of foreign policy during those years, so...". Kissinger interrupted saying, "No, Mr. Nixon was in charge of foreign policy. I was the Secretary of State."
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10/20/2005 4:30:55 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Liberal: A blatant liar who likes to spend other people's money.)
To: MEG33
Secretary of State Rice once again today reinforced my belief that she is the right person, in the right place, at the right tome, for the job. Questioned by the Senate today on an "exit strategy" for Iraq, Dr. Rice put forth the idea that the goal of our strategy in Iraq is to Clear areas from insurgent control, to hold them securely, and to build durable, national Iraqi institutions." She then stood her ground, and gave excellent answers to ridiculous questions. Case in pointI caught her exchange with John Kerry last night on CSpan. He tried very hard to trip her up, but she handled him brilliantly. After his session was over, he was scolded for going 15 minutes instead of 10.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:33:15 AM PDT
by
alnick
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"
... made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made... The Horror! The Horror!
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:36:41 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: clee1
"In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made."
Those poor, poor bureaucrats. For the first time in over eight years they found out they were not the elected government, they just worked for it.
A note on speeches at think tanks: Think tanks are the welfare agencies for out of work bureacrats and intellectuals.
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:39:56 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:40:54 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: mewzilla
Some strange bedfellows over there, eh?
Bernie Schwartz?
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posted on
10/20/2005 4:41:01 AM PDT
by
metesky
(This land was your land, this land is MY land; I bought the rights from a town selectman!)
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