[swheats]

"Perhaps that's what Vice President Gore should have been talking about - what happened on their watch as opposed to the progress we've made on our watch," Powell told "Fox News Sunday," after being asked about Ijaz's claims.

It's time for the Admin to say it like it is. Diplomacy with a bite.

[livius]

I agree! Glad that the Admin is hitting back. I don't want to see full-scale squabbling break out, but the Dems just get emboldened by polite silence. And it's good to see that the person doing it was Powell, since the Dems are always trying to imply that he's not really with Bush in his actions.