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NBC: Powell Was Pushed Before He Jumped
NewsMax ^ | November 16, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 11/16/2004 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin

When Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his resignation on Monday, he had already been "politely" encouraged to leave his post by President Bush, according to NBC News.

"Powell was going to leave but he was not necessarily going to leave right away, particularly with what's happening in the Middle East," the network's Andrea Mitchell reported Tuesday morning.

"He was prepared to stay for a few more months. And that was politely not accepted," she claimed. "They needed Powell in 2000, they thought, in order to get elected," Mitchell explained to radio host Don Imus. "They've now been re-elected and won't have to face the voters. And now, as the conservatives used to say about Reagan - 'Let Reagan be Reagan' - let Bush be Bush. He's true to himself now and doesn't have to play any games towards the moderates."

Mitchell said that Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, has received a "mandate" from President Bush to "clean house" at the State Department.

"It's going to be a whole new world" at the agency, the NBC'er said.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dos; lyingbitch; powell
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More BS from NBC
1 posted on 11/16/2004 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It may be BS.... but it sounds good to me :)


2 posted on 11/16/2004 8:10:04 AM PST by kjam22 (What you win them by, is what you win them to)
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To: Kaslin

Andrea Mitchell drips with bias.


3 posted on 11/16/2004 8:10:37 AM PST by SeaBiscuit (Crush the MSM, Liberals, sKerry and anything Clinton, they are a threat to America.)
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To: Kaslin

sounds GREAT to me. Maybe now we'll actually get a State Dept. that will act in America's interests.


4 posted on 11/16/2004 8:11:20 AM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Kaslin

Not really BS, just spin, I would imagine. I'm not aware of many positions where you can resign 'in a few months' from now. You are either on the team or not. The media doesn't quite get it.


5 posted on 11/16/2004 8:13:08 AM PST by Daus
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To: Kaslin

Powell made it clear that he didn't intend to stick around for a full two terms a long time ago.

The writer clearly has a fantasy of writing for a Hollywood gossip rag.


6 posted on 11/16/2004 8:13:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
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To: Kaslin
Mitchell said that Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, has received a "mandate" from President Bush to "clean house" at the State Department.

WHOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 posted on 11/16/2004 8:13:27 AM PST by Libertarian444
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To: Kaslin

Is she somehow implying that this is bad news? Fixing the State Department sounds great to me but then again I am a stupid "red stater".


8 posted on 11/16/2004 8:13:29 AM PST by KJacob (I will not worry about 2008 until late 2007.)
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To: JBlain

"You're either for us...or against us"


9 posted on 11/16/2004 8:13:29 AM PST by bigbob (2)
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To: Kaslin

It's true that he wanted to stay until March....but why should he??? He wasn't even doing a decent job for Bush anymore...he needed to go....his Dept tried to get Bush defeated!!!


10 posted on 11/16/2004 8:13:45 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kjam22

Sounds good to me too! Do you think Callahan from NE is a liberal?


11 posted on 11/16/2004 8:14:12 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Thanks Oklahomans for giving Pres Bush the win in all our counties!)
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To: PhiKapMom
Sounds good to me too! Do you think Callahan from NE is a liberal?

Harry Callahan?? :)

12 posted on 11/16/2004 8:15:05 AM PST by kjam22 (What you win them by, is what you win them to)
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To: Kaslin

Same was true for Paige, he wanted to stay another year, but the White House wanted to get on with the new term.


13 posted on 11/16/2004 8:15:38 AM PST by Sthitch
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To: Kaslin

Maybe so. Powell was too limp-wristed for my tastes. Its clear the State Department, as presently constituted, does not represent American values and interests abroad. A through house-cleaning is long overdue.


14 posted on 11/16/2004 8:15:52 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Kaslin
I remember back when Powell was first being sought out by GW

He pretty much stated it didn't matter to him which administration he served

Gore or Bush

It did not seem at the time that he meant he would served honorably and give 100% regardless (though I'm sure this is his work ethic)

It seemed more as though his thinking on the matter was more in the line of '6 of one half a dozen of the other'....

IMO
15 posted on 11/16/2004 8:16:43 AM PST by joesnuffy ("The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it." Horatio Seymour)
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To: goldstategop

purge the clintonistas


16 posted on 11/16/2004 8:17:08 AM PST by pissant
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To: SeaBiscuit

Not only bias, she drips with misinformation.

Powell will remain in office until Ms. Rice is approved
by the next Congress. That could be well into February.

And it makes sense, with the immediacy of Israeli-Palestinian situation, that Powell not be immersed in the start-up of any negotiations only to break the continuity and step out in mid-process. Ms. Rice should initiate and
follow through without a break.


17 posted on 11/16/2004 8:17:35 AM PST by plangent
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To: Libertarian444
Mitchell said that Powell's replacement, Condoleezza Rice, has received a "mandate" from President Bush to "clean house" at the State Department.

We'll be able to tell if this is true by watching for the back-biting leaks that start to flood the legacy press, just as has been the case with Goss and the CIA.

Should begin about any minute now.

18 posted on 11/16/2004 8:20:48 AM PST by Paine in the Neck
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To: Kaslin
Condoleezza Rice, has received a "mandate" from President Bush to "clean house" at the State Department.

Imagine a state department that doesn't constantly leak to the MSM...where would they go for info? Do you think they would have to actually respond the what the White House says is our foreign policy?

Who's going to tell them what to think?

19 posted on 11/16/2004 8:21:43 AM PST by Dutchgirl (Be still and know that I am God.- Psalm 46:10)
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