Well said Jon On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 11:37 PM, jon hall wrote:
> Perhaps it may appear so on the surface, but I really can't agree. The > administration want's Powell to be a "yes man", but obviously he > doesn't like it. Cheney is the one who originally wrote the BS in the > first place. > Much has been made about Powell disagreeing with the administration on > a lot of issues. The problem is that he is outnumbered in the White > House with Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice usually lining up against him. > > My take is the almost extreme opposite of this somehow being a sign of > weakness on Powell's part. I see it as a sign of strength that he > disagree's so much with the party line, but refuses to try and make it > an issue of right and wrong in the public eye. Especially since the > American voter only really cares about the truth when their party > doesn't have the White House. I doubt Powell would have gained more > Democratic supporters than Republican supporters he would have lost if > he refused to go along with the White House. > > When it comes down to it, the first black man to have a chance of > becoming President has more important things to worry about than > whether or not one reason to go to war with Iraq is better than > another. > He has a strong support base on the right currently and can't > let the media screw up his image by painting him as a maverick, and I > can't help but draw a parallel between David Palmer in the show 24, > and Powell. Playing ball now will go a long way in the future. > > -- > jon > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Monday, June 2, 2003, 10:24:00 PM, you wrote: > MD> Powell, who I once thought I respected, is nothing more than a > "yes man" for > MD> Bush and the forces in the state department. He is definitely not > in charge of > MD> anything. > > >>> On the evening of February 1, two dozen American officials gathered >>> in a > MD> spacious conference room at the Central Intelligence Agency in > Langley, Va. The > MD> time had come to make the public case for war against Iraq. For > six hours that > MD> Saturday, the men and women of the Bush administration argued > about what > MD> Secretary of State Colin Powell should--and should not--say at the > United > MD> Nations Security Council four days later. Not all the secret > intelligence about > MD> Saddam Hussein's misdeeds, they found, stood up to close scrutiny. > At one point > MD> during the rehearsal, Powell tossed several pages in the air. "I'm > not reading > MD> this," he declared. "This is bulls- - -." >>> >>> http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030609/usnews/9intell.htm >>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
