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2004-11-04 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by someone 2004-11-04 12:45:45 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No title, no link.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-04 1:00:42 PM|| 2004-11-04 1:00:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The article also says Rummy is staying -- I put that in the title, but it got chewed up somewhere.

Posted by someone 2004-11-04 1:14:24 PM|| 2004-11-04 1:14:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ridge had already announced he was leaving for financial reasons.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-04 1:18:56 PM|| 2004-11-04 1:18:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 take Mineta out!

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-04 1:19:57 PM|| 2004-11-04 1:19:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Is he still there? Talk about dead weight.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-04 1:27:47 PM|| 2004-11-04 1:27:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Dream moment: "Today the President announced that the State Department will be resigning."

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-11-04 1:31:34 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-11-04 1:31:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 RC, That and the CIA resigning would do wonders for our National security. Picture thousands of tenured professors with security clearances and you have both departments. Too bad they can't be forced to resign, no matter how much they screw up. The CIA/State missed almost all the big political and military events in the past 30 years. Neither predicted the trouble with the rise of fundamental Islam (Iran), fall of the Soviet Union and entire Warsaw pact, the rise and then crushing of dissent in the Peoples Republic of China, and the problems in the Balkans. Getting rid of both of these would IMPROVE national security.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-11-04 2:17:27 PM|| 2004-11-04 2:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 NYT has an article stating that the Condi does not like dealing with foreign diplodicks. She prefers Defense Dept.

I don't see Paul W. as NCAdvisor. He is too much of a lightning rod. He pissed me off when he couldn't remember how many U.S. troops died in Iraq, at the Sentate hearing.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2004-11-04 3:07:07 PM|| 2004-11-04 3:07:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Condi does not like dealing with foreign diplodicks.

Which is why she's perfect for the job.

Posted by AzCat 2004-11-04 4:06:38 PM|| 2004-11-04 4:06:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 AC,

You may have a point. I can't picture Condi drinking champagne with Kim Jong-il as in the case of former Sec. Foggy Bottom, MadMax Halfbright.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2004-11-04 4:46:03 PM|| 2004-11-04 4:46:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I think that Condoleeza Rice will be VP by 2006. That would give her time for a little federal executive experience and position her for 2008. As for the State Department, many of its senior people are of a vintage where Foreign Service was a nifty way to avoid the draft and not have to go to foreign countries where people would shoot at you. It would be good for them to move on.

Posted by RWV 2004-11-04 7:32:56 PM|| 2004-11-04 7:32:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 State badly needs a housecleaning of the sort Rummy's attempting in the Pentagon. Condi strikes me as just the sort of person who'd be up to the task.

Posted by AzCat 2004-11-04 11:37:36 PM|| 2004-11-04 11:37:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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