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the comment powell seems to have made fits well with much other evidence:
that the wolfowitz/rumsfeld crowd are, politically, nutjobs is obvious to anyone who looks (remember wolfowtiz's assumptions about the greeting the americans would get in iraq? remember? and where are we now? and why does wolfowitz still have a job?)
that there are and have been divisions within bush's administration between this circle of people and powell has also been obvious to anyone who looks.
that powell would have said something about it, finally, is not surprising.
it is not like powell's comments suddenly tear the veil away and/or reveal anything new.
i have long wondered what the personal and emotional toll must have been on powell of having to carryshit for the administrations to the un during the run-up to war, of being forced to make an obviously false presentation, of watching the presentation fail to sway other countries.
it must have been humiliating, even for someone accustomed to carrying out orders.
this is not the first time that comments on this order have been relayed into the larger world--but this is the first that purports to be in the first person.
bush supporters do not like thiese moments of candor, of course.
best to try to make them go away.
o they cant be true,
tsk tsk.
discipline uber alles.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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