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2005-10-20 Home Front: Politix
Look Ma! VP Cheney Hijacked My Foreign Policy Apparatus
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Posted by Captain America 2005-10-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Thinkin perhaps Powell be whiner in a flock of whiners. Rummy and Cheney are the adults, Wilkerson obviously is not yet ripe.
Posted by Captain America 2005-10-20 00:15||   2005-10-20 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Hhhhhhmmmmmm, so Cheney, etal = LBJ, etal. ala Oliver Stone's flick JFK, wid Kevin Costner. Ergo Dubya = JFK, i.e. about to be blown to smithereeneys so that the USA can invade Iran = Cuba ala righteous indignation.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-10-20 01:08||   2005-10-20 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said:

fired was he?
Posted by 2b 2005-10-20 07:16||   2005-10-20 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Oooooooooooh! A cabal!
Posted by tu3031 2005-10-20 07:48||   2005-10-20 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 First, I think we have a clearer idea why Powell was such a horrible Sec State. Any bets on when this guy will be speaking for various Saudi "institutes"?

What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

It's almost as if he thinks the bureaucracy makes policy. They don't. They're supposed to carry out the policy the President and his staff decide upon. The bureaucracy is not there to make the decisions.

Purge State. Sow Foggy Bottom with salt and erect a pillar warning others of the folly of a "professional" diplomat corps.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-10-20 07:49|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-10-20 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Somebody has been watching the Yes, Minister DVD set, and learned the wrong lessons.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2005-10-20 08:16||   2005-10-20 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 The Secretary of Defence and Vice President making decisions with out the knowledge of the bureaucracy? How dare they! They should be more like Colin and just hang around DC feeding rumors to Bob Woodward.

My respect for Powell diminishes every day.
Posted by Elmimble Crinetle9495 2005-10-20 08:29||   2005-10-20 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Heh heh heh! He said erect!
Posted by Beavis 2005-10-20 09:19||   2005-10-20 09:19|| Front Page Top

#9 My respect for Powell diminishes every day.

I lost any I had back in '91.
Posted by eLarson 2005-10-20 09:22|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2005-10-20 09:22|| Front Page Top

#10 history will tell if they were justified, we must wait for now.
Posted by bk 2005-10-20 09:49||   2005-10-20 09:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Image hosted by Photobucket.com
Why Don you devious rascal.
I should have come to you for such an idea to screw Powell. After all we are the cabal!
We have an image to maintain!
Posted by BigEd 2005-10-20 11:23||   2005-10-20 11:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Powell doesn't seem to understand how the system works. The Sec State gives advice and implements policy, it does not make policy. Cheney cannot hijack what is already his responsibility.
Posted by rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-10-20 14:28||   2005-10-20 14:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Somebody should tell this asshat that the job of the State Department is to effect the foreign policies of the elected President of the US and Congress, not to develop their own. If the people of the US wanted foreign policy developed by a bunch of inbred snobs from the ivy league, they would elect them. No wonder things have gotten so screwed up Beginning to think that Condi Rice should just go through, fire everyone and then repopulate the DoS, not unlike New Orleans.
Posted by RWV 2005-10-20 14:33||   2005-10-20 14:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Wilkerson and Powell are still courting the opinions of France and the UN bunch America needs so desperately to isolate ourselves from? It is these globalists like Soros that are trying to hijack our foreign policy and traitors in my opinion. Dick Cheney and the unknown handful of others are courageous heroes to defy the insider bureaucracy and just earned my respect ten-fold.
Posted by Danielle 2005-10-20 14:40||   2005-10-20 14:40|| Front Page Top

#15 RWV: "Beginning to think that Condi Rice should just go through, fire everyone"

Beginning?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-10-20 14:47|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]  2005-10-20 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Clean house: 1 question test - "who makes policy?"
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-10-20 15:38||   2005-10-20 15:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Very simple: You get elected; you call the shots.

Colin, you ain't gotten elected and you have no shots.
Posted by Elmising Glolutch1824 2005-10-20 17:31||   2005-10-20 17:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Sow salt?

During Salt 1 the keyword was salt.

Certainly, this was before the end of eloquence. Post eloquence we have drunk Kennedy screaming about relevance, crazy Schumer with a dagger to the heart of whatever, and Arlen f*****g Specter. A man to whom no idea has ever been planted.

For those of you of few years, take a look at drunk Kennedy's book about the ABM.

This loser has been open about his beliefs for over 40 years. The problem is, people in Massachusettes don't read. Or think. Or care. Or...anything. Maybe they mastu*****. But they procreate, so anything's possible.
Posted by OregonGuy">OregonGuy  2005-10-20 21:55||   2005-10-20 21:55|| Front Page Top

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