Powell and Rice squable over war

[dajoki]

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Updated: 06:39 PM EDT
Powell, Rice at Odds Over Iraq Planning
Former Secretary of State Says He Wanted More Troops

By LIBBY QUAID, AP

WASHINGTON (April 30) - Just back from Baghdad and eager to discuss promising developments, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice found herself knocked off message Sunday, forced to defend prewar planning and troop levels against an unlikely critic - Colin Powell, her predecessor at the State Department.

For the Bush administration, it was a rare instance of in-house dissenter going public.

On Rice's mind was the political breakthrough that had brought her and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to Iraq last week and cleared the way for formation of a national unity government.

Yet Powell sideswiped her by revisiting the question of whether the U.S. had a large enough force to oust Saddam Hussein and then secure the peace.

He said he advised Bush before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to send more troops to Iraq, but that the administration did not follow his recommendation.

Rice, Bush's national security adviser during the run-up to the war, neither confirmed nor denied Powell's assertion. But she spent a good part of her appearances on three Sunday talk shows reaching into the past to defend the White House, which is trying to highlight the positive to a public increasingly skeptical in this election year of the president's conduct of the war and concerned about the large U.S. military presence.

[mdmc]

1. welcome back, Colin Powell

where ya been

[valerief]

2. He did one of those Cheney disappearances. Maybe they're the

same person. Have they ever been seen in the same room?

[dajoki]

3. Maybe priming himself for an '08 run?

[Maestro]

4. Where was he when it mattered?

I still picture him in front of the UN talking about those rolling WMD labs. :eyes:

[dajoki]

5. Toeing the line n/t

[gratuitous]

8. Yupper smucker

Once again, as he has throughout his career, when he could have stood up and made a difference that would have saved countless lives or lined his own pocket, Colin Powell served his true god, mammon.

[Doctor_J]

6. Yawn

these staged "conflicts" between far-right and ultra-right wing Repubs are really transparent and geared toward people of the intellect of Smirk. Anyone who believes any of this shit probably also thinks that * is God's president and that Limpballs speaks the truth.

[dajoki]

7. By now none of us should be surprised what some people believe n/t

[Supersedeas]

11. Dunno, I think Powell's timing may have been calculated

[dajoki]

12. I'm at the point...

where I believe everything they do is calculated. Why is Powell bringing this up now?

[cliss]

9. Well, this might get interesting....

A Clash of the Titans? Two Secretaries of Defense, locking horns (and I DO mean horns).

Who will win? Who will have the last say? Who has more credibility, CondaLiar or Colon? Well, let's see....Colon is a general. He wrote a book....brought some drawings to the U.N.

But Condi is more attractive...her ratings are pretty good..

This is a tough call. (can't decide....hm)

OK: I've reached a verdict. Neither one wins. They're both rotten liars.

[dajoki]

10. I agree with your verdict...

They're both rotten liars.