Just one more comment. Has anyone else noticed that Dick Cheney and Colin Powell are in a much more serious mood than they were a couple of years ago? I think this is because of Iran and North Korea. Bush seems just a little more serious and Condi Rice is about the same. But what do you think about Cheney and Powell?
More serious? Probably not, but Dick Cheney's circulation is much better these days thanks to the stents, and there's no doubt Secretary Powell has followed Dick's example and is taking his blood pressure medicine regularly!
I'd agree. Powell, in particular, seems to have undergone a trial by fire and lost a bit of his belief in the innate goodness of Liberals.(See the UN, France, and what they did to him before we invaded Iraq, for instance.) He's very involved in trying to stop the ongoing horror of Sudan. I get the feeling that he's depressed, worried, and wants to do something positive for Africa (long ignored), before leaving the admin.. Cheney never wore rose colored glasses about the world and what goes on. He's an old cold war warrior and knows what has to be done each and every day to keep us free.