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1 posted on 10/20/2005 3:58:38 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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The liberal media should have a field day with this. They actually get to use the word "cabal."


2 posted on 10/20/2005 3:59:20 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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Sounds like the whine of a sore loser in battles between State, DOD and the WH.


3 posted on 10/20/2005 4:00:15 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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Thanks for the post. Interesting that the pro Powell crowd fails to recognize that someone else makes a credible case that Powell's position weakened the US. They don't have to agree but it would help to recognize the other side.


5 posted on 10/20/2005 4:03:14 AM PDT by saveliberty (I did not break the feed. I may have lost it, but I did not break the feed.)
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The comments, made at the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank...

Think tank. Snort. Guess who's on the board, among others, of the New America Foundation? One Steven Rattner. There are some other interesting names as well. No wonder this guy appeared there.

6 posted on 10/20/2005 4:04:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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A lot of innuendo; few facts.


9 posted on 10/20/2005 4:07:27 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Al-Jazeera is to the Iraqi War as CBS was to the Vietnam War.)
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The oil price spike's blowback. A lot of that windfall profit in Saudi coffers flows out into the PR machines of the Beltway and Greater Foggy Bottom.


10 posted on 10/20/2005 4:14:22 AM PDT by bvw
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Very interesting.

Powell is quoted in this article http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/20/D8DBI5O01.html

as saying we aren't doing "to bad at all". I wonder if he was quoted out of context or is speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
11 posted on 10/20/2005 4:14:24 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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I wonder, is this guy Wilkerson writing a book? Usually, guys like him come out of the woodwork to make allegations like these only to sell something.

Much as I liked and admired General Powell, I never thought he was the right choice for Secretary of State. I will say this, though, his reluctance to speaking out against the President, whatever problems he might have had as Secretary of State, shows he has a helluva lot more class than Wilkerson.


12 posted on 10/20/2005 4:16:44 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Please Colin, follow the advice of Genral McArthur: OLD SOLDIERS JUST FADE AWAY - PLEASE! Don't be a sore loser, although you are!


13 posted on 10/20/2005 4:20:18 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

The "bureaucracy" is there to implement the decisions of the National Command Authority; not the other way around.

Quite often, the "bureaucracy" tends to ignore that fact.

14 posted on 10/20/2005 4:20:51 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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These people just can't get over the fact that George W. Bush is in charge of the government's foreign policy.

I remember an interview someone was doing with Henry Kissinger and the interviewer started a question with, "Now you were in charge of foreign policy during those years, so...". Kissinger interrupted saying, "No, Mr. Nixon was in charge of foreign policy. I was the Secretary of State."

15 posted on 10/20/2005 4:30:55 AM PDT by libertylover (Liberal: A blatant liar who likes to spend other people's money.)
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"... made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made...

The Horror! The Horror!

17 posted on 10/20/2005 4:36:41 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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I'm tasting sour grapes


19 posted on 10/20/2005 4:40:54 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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Mr Wilkerson said former president George H.W. Bush “one of the finest presidents we have ever had”...

GHWB believed in multilaterism, the UN, the good-old boy network, personal friendships, yada yada. In this aspect, not much difference between him and John F'in Kerry

21 posted on 10/20/2005 4:41:13 AM PDT by WarEagle (This is obviously Karl Rove's fault...)
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“What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made."

Somebody tell this gentleman that the American people do not elect "the bureaucracy" to make decisions.
24 posted on 10/20/2005 4:50:52 AM PDT by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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Maybe Rummy wasn't only talking about the Euros when he used that phrase Old Europe.
26 posted on 10/20/2005 5:01:23 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

Anyone catch what's wrong with this? Sounds like a good way to proceed to me! ;-)

27 posted on 10/20/2005 5:01:31 AM PDT by maryz
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The thread needed a 'POS or BARF ALERT' but anyone who screens the Today Show on a regular basis can get my pass on this little error.

Lawrence Wilkerson...this is the bum that was at the foundation of the 'Bolton is too tough on his peers' crowd.

Interesting to note, however, that everyone that he complains about are still in their jobs (except Powell) and he's long gone.

28 posted on 10/20/2005 5:20:27 AM PDT by harpu
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What a complete joke. Colin Powell never had his hands around all the liberals and back stabbers at the State Dept. from day one until he stepped down. First you have to control your people, and then you worry about what others in the Administration might be doing.


29 posted on 10/20/2005 5:20:46 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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Powell: 'U.S. Is Not Doing Bad at All'...BUT, what does he know compared to his disgruntled staffer?!?
30 posted on 10/20/2005 5:26:11 AM PDT by harpu
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