Posted on 12/26/2007 11:41:33 AM PST by seanmerc
I hear ya. It seems that no staff at all would be better than a “stab you in the back” staff...
I like your dream.
This is a rehash of a magazine interview from about ten days ago.
Bolton is correct but I am disappointed in Newsmax for running this as a current story.
Thanks.
Makes sense. BMFLR.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
Yes, and enough backbone and support from others to prevent his/her being denigrated and marginalized.
I understand their like teachers...you can’t fire them! thats the problem.
There has to be some State Dept. Siberia you can reassign the troublemakers to and fill their slots with solid people.
And fiercely opposed to the new, "realist" foreign policy of Condi Rice and George W. Bush, which is going to bring us a hell of a price to pay, all for the sake of "Legacy".
Let us deal in realities here, OK?
Got it. Thanks!
Bump. DUNCAN HUNTER PING for sure!
From Ken Timmerman’s recent book “Shadow Warriors” and interview :
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=0ADC3041-E624-45A4-B608-E5C9DEB99079
Timmerman: Let me answer with an anecdote I describe in the book. After President Bush was elected to a second term in November 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell called a town meeting at the State Department in Washington . Faced with a sea of Kerry-Edwards stickers in the parking lot, Powell decided to confront the problem head on. “We live in a democracy,” he said. “As Americans, we have to respect the results of elections.” He went on to tell his employees that President Bush had received the most votes of any president in U.S. history, and that they were constitutionally obligated to serve him.
One of Powell’s subordinates, an assistant secretary of state, became increasingly agitated. Once Powell had dismissed everyone, she returned to her office suite, shut the door, and held a mini town meeting of her own. After indignantly recounting Powell’s remarks, she commented: “Well, Senator Kerry receive the second highest number of votes of any presidential candidate in history. If just one state had gone differently, Sen. Kerry would be President Kerry today.” Her staff owed no allegiance to the president of the United States , especially not to policies they knew were wrong, she said. If it was legal, and it would slow down the Bush juggernaut, they should do it, she told them.
Here was an open call to insubordination, and, I might add, it was not an isolated incident. We have heard recently from John Bolton confirmation of another story I tell in the book about Vann Van Diepen, one of the authors of the recent Iran NIE. Van Diepen systematically refused to carry out direct orders from Bolton to enforce non-proliferation sanctions against Iran and North Korea , because he disagreed with the policy.
Scott Carpenter, who had been in charge of the Iran pro-democracy programs at State, recently told the New York Sun that those programs were “dead” because they had been sabotaged by career State Department officials and Democrat political appointees, such as Suzanne Maloney, who now works at Brookings.
Every one of those “shadow warriors” should be fired and blacklisted forever from government service for their outright treason.
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