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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/06/1083635276895.html 'Tired' Powell ready to go By Gary Younge New York May 7, 2004US Secretary of State Colin Powell is weary and would not want to serve another whole four-year term under US President George Bush, a close aide says. "He's tired. Mentally and physically," Mr Powell's chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson, who has known the retired general for 15 years, is quoted as telling GQ Magazine. "If the President is re-elected and the President were to ask him to stay on, he might for a transitional period, but I don't think he'd want to do another four years." Mr Wilkerson also describes US sanctions policy against countries such as Pakistan and Cuba as "the dumbest policy on the face of the earth". The article, which includes an interview with Mr Powell, is illuminating for the comments made by his close friends and colleagues, who are explicit about his distrust and disdain for the hawks in the Administration. Mr Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, remarks on his boss' anguish at the damage to his credibility after his speech to the UN last year making the case for war and insisting there were weapons of mass destruction. Advertisement Advertisement "It's a source of great distress for the secretary," he says. Meanwhile, his mentor from the National War College, Harlan Ullman, describes US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a "jerk". He says: "This is, in many ways, the most ideological administration Powell's ever had to work for. Not only is it very ideological, but they have a vision. And I think Powell is inherently uncomfortable with grand visions like that." Their candour suggests that the internecine battles within the Bush Administration are becoming increasingly bitter and open, particularly those between the Defence Department and the Department of State. "None of Powell's friends had made any pretence of speculating about or guessing at his feelings," wrote the journalist, Wil Hylton. "They spoke for him openly and on the record." Mr Wilkerson even makes jibes at the war record of Mr Bush's inner circle, comparing their desire for military conflict with their reluctance to serve as young men. "I make no bones about it. I have some reservations about people who have never been in the face of battle, so to speak, who are making cavalier decisions about sending men and women out to die," he says. Mr Wilkerson compares Mr Powell's carrot-and-stick approach to Pakistan to the hawks' lack of diplomacy. "When all you use is a stick, you're not going to get very far," he says. Negotiation, he argues, makes more progress "than if you just sanction somebody and walk off and say, 'That's it, I'm not dealing with you any more'." "It hasn't worked in Cuba for 40 years," Hylton says in the article. "(It is the) dumbest policy on the face of the earth," Mr Wilkerson replies. - agencies ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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