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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Perle needs to shut up. No one cares what he says about anyone.
Yah but did you see him in that TV show, the path to 911, he was the hero!
Wow. I missed that.
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.
The piece reads like it was set up to slam Ms. Rice.
That's actually a pretty good article, which I certainly didn't expect. He's absolutely right about Colin Powell being a disaster.
Too bad Rice can't move to the UN and Bolton take over State.
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!
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.
You must mean Clarke, not Perle?
Wouldn't it be fun to watch him clean out that rats nest!
No doubt!
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
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.
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.
Yeah, I gotta go along with that.
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.
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