Perhaps it may appear so on the surface, but I really can't agree. The administration want's Powell to be a "yes man", but obviously he doesn't like it. Cheney is the one who originally wrote the BS in the first place. Much has been made about Powell disagreeing with the administration on a lot of issues. The problem is that he is outnumbered in the White House with Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice usually lining up against him.
My take is the almost extreme opposite of this somehow being a sign of weakness on Powell's part. I see it as a sign of strength that he disagree's so much with the party line, but refuses to try and make it an issue of right and wrong in the public eye. Especially since the American voter only really cares about the truth when their party doesn't have the White House. I doubt Powell would have gained more Democratic supporters than Republican supporters he would have lost if he refused to go along with the White House. When it comes down to it, the first black man to have a chance of becoming President has more important things to worry about than whether or not one reason to go to war with Iraq is better than another. He has a strong support base on the right currently and can't let the media screw up his image by painting him as a maverick, and I can't help but draw a parallel between David Palmer in the show 24, and Powell. Playing ball now will go a long way in the future. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, June 2, 2003, 10:24:00 PM, you wrote: MD> Powell, who I once thought I respected, is nothing more than a "yes man" for MD> Bush and the forces in the state department. He is definitely not in charge of MD> anything. >> On the evening of February 1, two dozen American officials gathered in a MD> spacious conference room at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The MD> time had come to make the public case for war against Iraq. For six hours that MD> Saturday, the men and women of the Bush administration argued about what MD> Secretary of State Colin Powell should--and should not--say at the United MD> Nations Security Council four days later. Not all the secret intelligence about MD> Saddam Hussein's misdeeds, they found, stood up to close scrutiny. At one point MD> during the rehearsal, Powell tossed several pages in the air. "I'm not reading MD> this," he declared. "This is bulls- - -." >> >> http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030609/usnews/9intell.htm >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
