[MizSterious]

Does make ya go "hmmm..."

I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?

[hgro]

"I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?"

Too many.

[guitfiddlist]

I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?

Too many. And there were too many of these salad-day pin-striped pinheads BEFORE the Sinkmeister polluted it further.

Bush needs to do to State - what he just did to INS - remake it - but also fire a boatload of these slithering Chamberlains.

[org.whodat]

I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?

You have put your finger on the problem with the state department as well as with all other branches of government.

[bert]

I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?

Enough to screw things up.

[Servant of the Nine]

I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?

It is not the Clinton apointees, it is the career Civil Service poeple that all need to be purged.

SO9

[gcruse]

I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?

The question is, when it comes to the State Department, does the President delegate or does he abdicate?  

[ggekko]

"I wonder how many Clinton holdovers still work there?"

There is a strong clique of Clintonistas at State and the CIA who do not want to see a successful regime change in Iraq. Part of this feeling stems from their own botched coup attempt against Hussein after the first Gulf War.

This same clique does not believe that democracy can work in Iraq. I have sensed a degree of passive resistance from State and the CIA ever since POTUS unvieled his Democratic vision for the Middle East.

I would love to see George Tenet's head on a pole after this is over (metaphorically speaking, that is).