Powell aides go public on rift with Bush

Guardian ^ | 05/06/04 | Gary Younge

[jwalsh07]

I'm looking forward to a thorough spring cleaning at State in 2005.

[steplock]

WHO has the authority to dismantle the State Department?

It is about time.

[Dolphy]

Meanwhile his mentor from the National War College, Harlan Ullman, describes the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, as a "jerk".

Why is it that these people who are constantly criticizing the President for his lack of diplomacy always resort to adolescent name calling?

[Pikamax]

"One of the most glaring examples of this departmental rivalry is in the policy towards China and Taiwan, which has been lobbying the US to support its move towards official independence from China. Such a move would incense the Chinese and inevitably inflame tensions in the area. Nonetheless, Mr Powell's colleagues say the Bush administration has been encouraging the Taiwanese in their efforts. "

ohhh, can't anger the chinese.

[txrangerette]

Guess none of them give a rip
that we are at WAR for our very
survival...

[piasa]

I like how they always try to write these things so as to make it look like THIS administration hired these people. In this case the implication is since he's Powell's 'key aide' that Powell hired him or Bush appointed him.

It usually turns out that these jokers are holdovers from previous administrations.

You'd think a 'key aide' would let his boss to the talking. Exclusively. I don't think a 'key aide' is supposed to put words in his boss's mouth.

[vbmoneyspender]

[Taiwan] is another place where you get a lot of tension," says Mr Wilkerson. "Because there are literally people from the defence department on that island every week. Every week. And have been for three years. And many of those people are delivering messages to Taiwan that Taiwan needn't worry. Meanwhile, we're trying to maintain a more balanced attitude."

The State Dept. would never want to support a democracy when there is a dictatorship to curry favor with.

[kitkat]

***Meanwhile, we're trying to maintain a more balanced attitude." ***

Sounds like a quote from John f'n Kerry! Or Clintoon. Or Gore or Gorelick.

I didn't know that GQ printed socialist trash. They should stick to articles about 3-button suits.

[JohnnyZ]

He said: "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."

Sounds good to me!

The pro-ChiCom remarks are telling as well.

[bayourod]

If Colin Powell were white he would have retired as a Lt. Colonel. "It wasn't so much that what the dog said was profane, it was the fact that it could talk at all."

[nmh]

"Why is it that these people who are constantly criticizing the President for his lack of diplomacy always resort to adolescent name calling?"

It is because they lack substance and brains while possessing the maturity of a two year old.

[EternalVigilance]

He has spent as much time doing damage control and, shall we say, apologising around the world

So, quit apologizing. It's so Clintonian.

But what should anybody expect of liberals, anyway.

[Ramius]

When it is somewhere other than a British tabloid perhaps then it will be meaningful. Are we now accepting the Weekly World News as a source now too??

Yeesh...

[Dolphy]

It is because they lack substance and brains while possessing the maturity of a two year old.

I knew there was a reasonable explanation.

[BibChr]

Good heavens. We're living in a day when having a distinct ideology, and a vision, can be portrayed in itself as a BAD thing.

Dan

[Azzurri]

I'm not buying these quotes, either. Sounds made up.

[King Prout]

I won't believe any of this unless it comes straight from Mr. Powell himself.

[mhking]

More of the BS fallout from the GQ hit piece.

Read the article: it's a pure hit piece, designed to get those of us on the right fighting with each other. Don't be fooled.