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Personaly, I find the idea of Paul Wolfawitz running our forigen policy frightening, but the defense department has had a lot of influence over our forigen policy during the Bush administration, especialy after 9/11.
Basically Dick Cheany likes Rumsfeld's hard right-wing stance on things like North Korea and Iraq, so they shove Powell off to the side. And since Bush has no opinions of hi own and just does what his advisors say we end up with Cheany and Rumsfeld deciding things rather then Powell. For the most part at least, looks like Powell won this round. Read "Bush at War" by by Bob Woodward, its facinating who has power and who doesn't in this administration.
I think this just shows how badly the administration planned out the "day after" the war. Who would take over should have been decided before the war, and it shouldn't change. The last thing the Iraqis need is a new prcounsel every month.
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