Pentagon steamed at Bush's choice for postwar Iraq

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | April 10, 2003 | Jerry Sepe

[SkyPilot]

Or her....

http://www.jerseygop.com/RepublicanBabes15.html

[Kenno]

Sorry, I don't recognize the shoe reference.

[SkyPilot]

http://www.jerseygop.com/R_babes/

[SkyPilot]

You don't know about the Arab insult regarding shoes?

[F16Fighter]

With all due respect to many capable women, THIS is NO time to enforce political correctness.

[Kenno]

Er, no.

[dark_lord]

If true, probably not "political correctness." More like making a political statement -- somthing like -- we Americans think enough of our women to permit them positions of power. Thus doubling our national effectiveness. We think you arabs ought to consider this. And for you Islamists that think women should be suppressed - too bad, she is going to be bossing you. Heh.

[Radix]

Terrific link.

Thanks, I may have to post some of them in the Canteen.

[Radix]

Exactly what I am thinking.

[F16Fighter]

"More like making a political statement"

Not something we can afford to be messin' with in such a politically volatile place.

I'd like to know just who was whispering this ill-advised "strategy" to Dubya?

[HenryLeeII]

ping for later reading

[Minty]

The Discovery Channel have a video documentary on O'Neill and it seems from what they unearth there that she hindered the investigation every way she could until she got rid of him and halted the investigation. He was really close to connect the dots to Bin Laden and he had his suspects lined up right. If he would have been allowed to proceed with the investigation maybe 9/11 would not had happened.

To me this woman is one I would not trust. Others were against O'Neill and are now retired, but seems like this woman got away and now even rewarded for what she did. But again maybe that is what they want to do; reward her.

[Remedy]

Pfc. Jessica Lynch would have been a better choice.

[Remedy]

Meet the inventor of the made-for-TV war: the Pentagon's Torie Clarke Who's behind the strategy of "embedding" reporters inside coalition combat units? Bush administration insiders say it's the brainchild of Victoria "Torie" Clarke, the Pentagon's assistant secretary for public affairs. She developed the idea last fall in an effort to win the spin war. By early winter, she persuaded her boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who then made the case to the National Security Council in a 10-page memo drafted by Ms. Clarke and obtained by WORLD.

[Remedy]

O.K. How about Hillary? And Sir Edmund dosen't count.

[bvw]

Bush is a shrewd man! This is better than Rendell being elected Governor of Pennsylvania year last. Both are positions comparable to hopping a train about to wreck.

In Pennsylvania, Rendell has to feed his own prodigiously hungry cadre of syncophants, yet is now without any political moxie to do so, as the state's money has dried up, and he no longer his the closely-held clubs to wield that a city has. Harrisburg is far from Philly.

Likewise Bodine is being set to be a dedicated [] something I won't say, excecpt that at the end of the match its pulled down, scored and discarded.

[gaspar]

Barbara Bodine is a disaster: Past, present and future. In Yemen she did everthing possible to hamper the investigation of the Cole, and even managed to place US agents in danger by congregating them in one hotel in Sanaa. She has been despised by nearly every FSO who ever worked for her, and if she has a single friend in this world I hope someone in FR publishes the name.

[TopQuark]

I disagree: I know one Barbara who is a very positive force. And, unlike the ones you mentioned, she a conservative. In fact, stick around because she is here on FR: I think she goes by the name buffyT or something like that...

[UCANSEE2]

No matter who Bush picked, there would be a stink about it.
That is the real bottom line.