This whackjob could be easily mistaken for the cleaning lady ---- just like Madelleine Albright.
Posted on 03/29/2005 8:24:38 PM PST by doug from upland
Richard Miniter broke a bombshell this week regarding our ambassador to Pakistan, Nancy Powell. Yes, Powell began her State Department career under . . . . . . . . Jimmy Carter. It was recently learned that Powell blew it big time in the hunt for Osama bin Laden by failing to distribute materials offering a 25 million dollar reward for bin Laden and rewards for his associates.
Richard and I will discuss Ms. Powell's incredible failure on Wednesday's show in the first segment.
Then, music fans are in for a big treat. FReeper uncleshag and I will discuss the making of YOU'VE BEEN FREEPED, Vol. 1, the parody CD that eviscerates several of your favorite DemocRATS. Uncleshag will have some clips of a few of the songs for your listening enjoyment. He will give you the nuts and bolts of what it took to get the album put together.
Yeeeehaaawww! Doug, I am pumped!! It's coming soon!
Doug, I'd have to take slight issue with your reference to Nancy Powell's "failure." I'd say she SUCCEEDED.
Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to have succeeded on behalf of The United States of America....
From Lt. Col. Tom McKenney (Ret) in his chapter from the CLINTON CHRONICLES BOOK called "The Unthinkable Commander in Chief" --
It is significant that the man Clinton turns to for military advice ---who argued against the tanks and APC's for the raid in Mogadishu---is the same Warren Christopher (then a high official in Jimmy Carter's National Security Council) who helped plan the disastrous raid to rescue the hostages in Iran.
At a planning session for the Tehran rescue, the man selected to lead the raid, the late Colonel Charlie Beckwith, was asked what the would do about the Iranian guards. Bechwith, a no-nonsense veteran of special operations, replied that as they came out the door they would be shot in the head---twice---to be sure they couldn't do any harm.
Warren Christopher gasped, grimaced, viscerally shocked, and asked, "Couldn't you just shoot them in the hand?"
Had Charlie Beckwith been allowed to plan the Iranian raid as it should have been done and left alone to carry it out, it would have succeeded.
Concerning the Mogadishu disaster, Beckwith wrote in The Wall Street Journal that the raid was bungled by committing the Rangers and Delta Force without giving them the freedom and the support they needed.
Is this going to be on local radio?
If so what freq?
It will be replayed throughout the day and be available in archives.
This whackjob could be easily mistaken for the cleaning lady ---- just like Madelleine Albright.
The other woman in the photo is looking at Ms. Powell with utter disdain. She probably doesn't believe this slovenly whackjob is working for our government. I wonder what Sec. Powell thinks of her.
WASHINGTON - A lone U.S. ambassador compromised America's hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan for more than two years, The New York Sun has learned.
Ambassador Nancy Powell, America's representative in Pakistan, refused to allow the distribution in Pakistan of wanted posters, matchbooks, and other items advertising America's $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Mr. bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders.
Instead, thousands of matchbooks, posters, and other material - printed at taxpayer expense and translated into Urdu, Pashto, and other local languages - remained "impounded" on American Embassy grounds from 2002 to 2004, according to Rep. Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois.
While the American government was engaged in a number of "black" or covert intelligence activities to locate Al Qaeda leaders, Mr. Kirk said, the "white" or public efforts - which have succeeded in the past in leading to the capture of wanted terrorists - were effectively shut down in the months following the September 11 attacks.
Mr. Kirk discovered Ms. Powell's unusual order in January 2004 and, over the past year, launched a series of behind-the-scenes moves that culminated in a blunt conversation with President Bush aboard Air Force One, the removal of the ambassador, and congressional approval for reinvigorating the hunt for Mr. bin Laden.
I must be blind. Where is the link for the stream?
The link is at the very beginning of the article. Click on the Rightalk link, go to the site, then scroll down.
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