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Biggest winner of all is Rumsfeld
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| April 11 2003
Posted on 04/10/2003 12:56:44 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
I'd love to see him run for prez against Bill's former in 2008
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04/10/2003 12:57:56 PM PDT
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04/10/2003 1:00:46 PM PDT
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To: bedolido
Me too!
To: knighthawk
ah, the greasy pole.
i love this sort of insider analysis.
what if Powell does leave sometime before the '04 elections?
my guess is that either Wolfowitz or Rice would become State head, the latter if GWB decides to get serious about the Rice '08 movement. Regardless, if either of those happen, it is basically then State and Defense speaking from one "voice" and perspective (which would be contra what GWB was taught at HBS, of course, and contra his history, as the author points out).
I have posited this question here before, but I think it is worth repeating: As the youngest Secy of Defense ever (and as Kissinger makes clear in the referenced memoirs), Rummy wanted to be Prez.
Is he REALLY too old in '08? What would he be, 77 or 78? I guess that is a bit old at the front end, but he is a pretty shrap tack, much sharper than Dole in '96....
To: bedolido
If that were to happen, I can only imagine the stench from the pants of the French.
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:02:53 PM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: knighthawk
He's right about Powell. After a decent interval, Condi Rice goes to State.
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:03:14 PM PDT
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Publius
To: knighthawk; bedolido
Me too - but I doubt he'll want to do a term or two as CinC at that point in his life.
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:03:23 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: knighthawk
Go Rummy!
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:03:39 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
To: Rummyfan
"Me too - but I doubt he'll want to do a term or two as CinC at that point in his life."
Good point. still be nice if he did though.
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:04:50 PM PDT
by
bedolido
To: knighthawk
He'd be pretty old by 08 to last till 12 and 16. He's in early 70s now isn't he?
To: RetiredArmy
seems we all are thinking along the same lines....
To: knighthawk
Good...that's all I have to say...GOOD!!!!!
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:06:14 PM PDT
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Ga Rob
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To: Publius
"After a decent interval"
Seems to me Powell has had that already. I think, personally, that he has done a fine job, though he is not as conservative as many of us here....
To: ConservativeDude
The key thing Powell did was set up the UN for irrelevence. That in itself was important because it sets the table, a year or two from now, for the US to pull out of the UN and encourage its final collapse.
The question is, did Powell set the UN up deliberately? Or did Bush set up Powell?
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:10:20 PM PDT
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Publius
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04/10/2003 1:12:12 PM PDT
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Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
To: Publius
"The question is, did Powell set the UN up deliberately? Or did Bush set up Powell?"
Fascinating. I don't believe that Bush deals treacherously with his own, but I do believe that he is a master tactician and the more the D's and other socialists think that he's a fool, the better off we are. You are right. He did one or the other. The answer lies in whether Powell is a closet hawk, or Bush is a closet Machiavel.
I go with the former because I like Powell.
To: Publius
"Or did Bush set up Powell?"
Best part is Powell probably did not even see it coming.
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posted on
04/10/2003 1:16:35 PM PDT
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JSteff
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