[gcruse]

I understand and sympathize with what you are saying. I am not a fan of Powell either. However he works for the President, takes direction from the President, and anything Powell does face to face with other nations is with the complicity of the President. To leave Bush's name out of your reply is to forget where the buck really stops.

[Brian Allen]

<< To leave Bush's name out of your reply is to forget where the buck really stops. >>

Very fair comment although I believed that in saying:

" ..... President, George Walker Bush. Whose blind spot -- and indeed whose family's blind spot -- has long been accupied by former general Colin Powell ..... "

.... I acknowledged that I not only agree with you totally on that point but also that I am extremely concerned that the very-well-demonstrated Bush-family blind spot vis-a-vis Powell is extremely dangerous.

[President Bush's refusal to deal with the State and Justice/INS facilitated, aided and abetted criminal-alien invasion bothers me every bit as much. That very-much-related Buck stops with Mr Bush, too!]

My Powell concern is particularly raised by the fact the Bush/Powell State department visibly varies not one iota from KKKlinton/Albright's.

Given both the Bush-family's Powell blind spot [And if it did not blind them we would call it something else, he would be Major [Retd] Powell -- and you and I would not be having this exchange!] -- and that Powell is politically un-fireable [And he and State know it!] -- of most serious concern is that he has slotted in so well at State and with its client-nation masters around the world, that he so overtly acts as the conduit of the ideas and interests of our enemies foreign [And our "friends" -- whose wider interests -- witness Blair -- are rarely if ever ours] and domestic and our President -- and so readily facilitate's the self-elevated State Brahmanas' "interpretations" and "filterings" of the Bush Administration's otherwise unambiguously-stern statements of policy and of purpose.

Several folks I know who have occasional contact with Mr Powell tell me the mendacious-media-manufactured Powell image bears as much relationship to the actual [Socialist "Democrat" (?)] man as does Eleanor KKKlift's Hillary Rodham Clinton to Mr Justice Kenneth Starr's.

And, yes, he is President Bush's responsibility.

To correct Newt Gingrich's recent observation to the effect we have just seen six months of foreign-policy failure corrected by three weeks of Defence Department success: -- truth is both President Bush and Powell are overseeing the perpetuation of the permanently failed Department of State.

Best ones -- Brian