Hardly a suprise…
is the President’s choice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State.
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I believe Mrs. Powell is still forbidding him from running for president.
Why are these people moving on? Is it to go work in the lucrative oil industry fueled by our new partner in Iraq? Is it to displace themselves from a foreign policy that is not doing well? The secretary of education wanting to avoid all the pending lawsuits against the government for failing to fund NO Child Left Behind, therefore disenfrachising poor schools from the benefits of NCLB? Are they leaving because they fear the ramifications of Bush’s policy with Mexico and his “guest worker” program? I wonder!!
Why are you pretending to ask questions when you appear to already have made up your mind?
I think Powell (at least) feels that he has failed because the “stockpiles of WMD’s” that he mentioned have never been found. To be sure there HAVE been WMD’s, but no stockpiles, and that was the main case that Colin Powell presented to the UN.
There is this thing that we’re discussing in my engineering ethics class. It has to do with giving “false positives”. That a giving a “falsepositive” harms a scientist’s reputation a lot more than failing to give a true positive.
I was hoping to see Norm Mineta leaving!
Oh and…shove it, patrick (not Patrick Chester).
Clinton replaced nearly all of his cabinet for the second term. If you’re trying to look at this issue as a sign of impending doom, you’re not going to have much luck.
Clinton’s 2nd cabinet
Madeline Albright Sec of State (replaces Warren Christopher)
William Cohen Sec of Defense (replaces William Perry)
Sandy (in my pants) Berger NSA (replaces Anthony Lake)
William Daley Commerce Sec.
Commenting on the new Clinton cabinet in a syndicated column published December 18, David Broder stated, “There is almost no left left in his administration.”
Beth (and Kevin)–
I think it is high time the blogsphere restarted the “Dump Mineta” movement. I have some links to old posts by Glenn and Peggy Noonan on the subject here.
If he ran, I think he would win in a landslide because he’s got some support from the left.
I would’ve hoped Underperfomin’ Norman’s resignation would’ve been one of those Bush requested.
I wonder if it was, but Mineta’s waiting to see if Dubya will actually fire him?
Powell is an honorable man, but he allowed the State Department to run itself.
I’d like to see Condi Rice become Secretary of State and Gen. Tommy Franks become the National Security Advisor. Franks could help Porter Goss continue cleaning house at CIA. Get rid of the Liberal, campus-eggheads who work there. For a supposedly secret agency, CIA has more leaks than a machinegunned bathtub.
Powell is an honorable man, but he allowed the State Department to run itself.
I’d like to see Condi Rice become Secretary of State and Gen. Tommy Franks become the National Security Advisor. Franks could help Porter Goss continue cleaning house at CIA. Get rid of the Liberal, campus-eggheads who work there. For a supposedly secret agency, CIA has more leaks than a machinegunned bathtub.