--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/printable592330.shtml>> > > "From the very beginning, there was a conviction > that Saddam Hussein was > a bad person and that he needed to go," he tells > Stahl. "For me, the > notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the > unilateral right to do > whatever we decide to do is a really huge leap," > says O'Neill. <snip>
So, is this a disgruntled employee snapping at the folks who fired him? Or is this former member of the Nixon and Ford admins blowing a whistle for good reason? "...In the book, O�Neill says that the president did not make decisions in a methodical way: there was no free-flow of ideas or open debate...O'Neill is the only one who spoke on the record, but Suskind says that someone high up in the administration � Donald Rumsfeld - warned O�Neill not to do this book... "...During the campaign, candidate Bush had criticized the Clinton-Gore Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that." �The thing that's most surprising, I think, is how emphatically, from the very first, the administration had said �X� during the campaign, but from the first day was often doing �Y,�� says Suskind. �Not just saying �Y,� but actively moving toward the opposite of what they had said during the election.� "...The former treasury secretary accuses Vice President Dick Cheney of not being an honest broker, but, with a handful of others, part of "a praetorian guard that encircled the president" to block out contrary views. "This is the way Dick likes it," says O�Neill..." Many of the people Bush has chosen to surround himself with - Cheney and Ashcroft in particular - are not friends of the Constitution, democracy, "the common man" or the rule of law. I am quite sure that I never learned in Civics class that indefinite detention, torture-by-proxy, and 'unquestioning belief is the only form of patriotism allowed' were core American values. Debbi But Some Are More Equal Than Others Maru :-/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
