[MizSterious]

If not Dean, one of the other "Party of Treason" candidates. Excuse me if I totally discount this wild story of his. Perhaps a more important question might be: how did this twerp end up in such a high position in this admin? I can understand what's involved in getting rid of the Clinton holdovers, but that isn't what this jerk is. Someone should have done a more careful background check.

[pepperdog]

"how did this twerp end up in such a high position in this admin?"

To me this is the most serious part of this whole flap. How in the world did such an inept and vindictive person gain such a high government post in the first place. Whoever sponsored him needs to be thoroughly investigated--I smell a very large rat somewhere in the background.

[nightowl]

O'Neil was chosen by Dick Cheney because he was a friend of his. O'Neil never clicked with Bush and now we all know why. Bush didn't trust him. What I could never fathom was why Bush kept him for two years. I suppose it was out of displaced loyalty. Paul O'Neil was an absolute disaster as Treasury Secretary. He would go on TV and say things that were not the President's agenda and also he would say thinks that would disrupt the markets. He was FURIOUS that Bush fired him and he is doing this as payback.

As far as his stupid remarks on Iraq, the Pentagon makes contingency plans for military action against many countries. I just hope one of them is France. HEEHEE!