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Perle: Bush Failed by his Own People
NewsMax ^ | 2/26/2007 | David Eberhart, NewsMax

Posted on 02/26/2007 6:44:54 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Perle: Bush Failed by his Own People

Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Monday, Feb. 26, 2007

Richard Perle tells NewsMax that key members of the Bush administration have failed the president – and Perle names names.

In a wide-ranging interview, the former assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan and chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 2001 to 2003 under President Bush calls former Secretary of State Colin Powell a "disaster" and says current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "was in way over her head from the beginning."

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KEYWORDS: colinpowell; condi; perle; rice
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I would have to believe that Colin Powell is a disaster as the Sec of State. He is supposed to implement the President's policy but instead went on his own way thus leading to confusion, etc.
1 posted on 02/26/2007 6:44:55 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Perle needs to shut up. No one cares what he says about anyone.


2 posted on 02/26/2007 6:46:16 PM PST by pissant (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: pissant

Yah but did you see him in that TV show, the path to 911, he was the hero!


3 posted on 02/26/2007 6:48:08 PM PST by Crooked Constituent
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To: Crooked Constituent

Wow. I missed that.


4 posted on 02/26/2007 6:49:03 PM PST by pissant (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Inovation has been sadly lacking in the cabinet. Bush had the resolve. They tried to parrot it rather than handing him the inovation. Adaptive change rather than revolutionary change is conservatism written large. That he has not had in his top hands.


5 posted on 02/26/2007 6:50:00 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: pissant

The piece reads like it was set up to slam Ms. Rice.


6 posted on 02/26/2007 6:50:32 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

That's actually a pretty good article, which I certainly didn't expect. He's absolutely right about Colin Powell being a disaster.


7 posted on 02/26/2007 6:53:39 PM PST by Reagan is King (Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it)
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To: Reagan is King

Too bad Rice can't move to the UN and Bolton take over State.


8 posted on 02/26/2007 7:02:02 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: pissant
Perle claims that at the time he favored just giving the Iraq government over to the Iraqis immediately.

But he also claims that the CIA and Administration were certain there were WMDs in Iraq.

How did Perle expect us to just give Iraq back to the Iraqis immediately if we hadn't had time to go around and search for the WMDs?

And what was his position on the looting, some of which could have involved WMDs?

This guy is priceless!

9 posted on 02/26/2007 7:12:01 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Colin Powell WAS a disaster. He knew about Richard Armitage outing Valerie Plame, too, but helped cover it up.

As for Condi Rice, I liked her very much. She started out well, but IMHO she has steadily gone downhill, and pretty well become a puppet of the State Department.

She can still slap down a Democrat, but her record over the past couple of years has been pretty disappointing.


10 posted on 02/26/2007 7:14:20 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Crooked Constituent

You must mean Clarke, not Perle?


11 posted on 02/26/2007 7:29:56 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Bolton take over State

Wouldn't it be fun to watch him clean out that rats nest!

12 posted on 02/26/2007 7:33:15 PM PST by Reagan is King (Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it)
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To: Reagan is King

No doubt!


13 posted on 02/26/2007 7:35:51 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: pissant
This goofball has been so thoroughly discredited that I'm surprised he even opens his mouth on any relevant public issue anymore.

Richard Perle tells NewsMax that key members of the Bush administration have failed the president – and Perle names names.

I agree with Perle that key members of the Bush administration have failed the president -- and I'll name the one name that matters more than any other in the context of this discussion . . . RICHARD PERLE

14 posted on 02/26/2007 7:38:13 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Crooked Constituent

My favorite part of the Path To 9/11 was when the actor playing Richard Clarke feds the enite White House staff with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread.


15 posted on 02/26/2007 7:38:59 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: Cicero

Agree, Colin Powell was a disaster.

Re Condi, considering limitations of what she can say and, more importantly, DO in State, I'd say she's doing pretty good job. In State, the best one can do, is "first and foremost, do no harm". She handled ME pretty well, buying Olmert plenty of time for him to do what he needed to do in Lebanon (if he had the stomach for it), letting Hamas and Fatah fight it out amongst themselves, and pointing Sunni Arab states against bigger danger of their fellow Shiite Muslims in Iran and Lebanon and Gaza (forgetting for awhile "Death to Israel" and "Death to America").

Not bad for a SoS, she's been more proactive and successful than any SoS in decades (including Baker). Don't expect SoS to be a miracle worker, but she has State speaking tough AND in one voice on Iran, which is just about near miracle.

And she's a historian, which helps her see a long-term strategy and consequences of actions and, more importantly, non-actions.


16 posted on 02/26/2007 7:46:10 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Perhaps Perle is disappointed he was not named SecState!
17 posted on 02/26/2007 7:46:59 PM PST by Northern Alliance
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Yeah, I gotta go along with that.


18 posted on 02/26/2007 7:51:13 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: CutePuppy
I agree with you regarding Condi. The State Department is full of sympathetic cookie-pushers and Clintinistas!

Bolton would be perfect as SoS as he surely will clean up the Department. It is no secret that he is a mean SOB that doesn't like to be crossed! He will force-feed Bush's policy and make it stick

Condi should be promoted back up to National Security Adviser! She has gained much from dealing with the foreign countries.
19 posted on 02/26/2007 8:02:19 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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Condi should be promoted back up to National Security Adviser!

I hope she can be promoted to VP in 2008.

As far as cleaning State Dept, it's not easy when you deal with entrenched career (they don't call it that for nothing!) government employees, which most of them are except few political appointees at the top.

We know what happened with trying to clean up CIA, it ain't pretty or easy, and certainly cannot be done in just a couple of years. State, if anything, is even more "stacked". We need several administrations just to make a serious dent.

20 posted on 02/26/2007 8:37:54 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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