Will the real Colin Powell please stand up?
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
08/09/07
Wilkerson and Bodine have spoken out before. But Armitage’s debut in particular has the White House fuming and fretting that it somehow signals Powell’s emergence as a full-throated critic in the middle of the September P.R. offensive. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, according to sources close to him, has voiced anger and concern about whether Powell will step forward and what he might say, and other presidential aides are wondering how to cope with that nightmarish possibility. Two months ago, Powell declared the surge a near-certain failure. … Hadley and others are taking Powell’s early skepticism toward the surge and willingness to express it as a potential sign that he will swoop down on them just after Petraeus asks for more forbearance for the president’s policy. Powell is the White House’s ticking-time-bomb scenario. He was Petraeus before Petraeus, the good soldier before the good soldier, window-dressing before window-dressing...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
by Sidney Blumenthal
08/09/07
Wilkerson and Bodine have spoken out before. But Armitage’s debut in particular has the White House fuming and fretting that it somehow signals Powell’s emergence as a full-throated critic in the middle of the September P.R. offensive. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, according to sources close to him, has voiced anger and concern about whether Powell will step forward and what he might say, and other presidential aides are wondering how to cope with that nightmarish possibility. Two months ago, Powell declared the surge a near-certain failure. … Hadley and others are taking Powell’s early skepticism toward the surge and willingness to express it as a potential sign that he will swoop down on them just after Petraeus asks for more forbearance for the president’s policy. Powell is the White House’s ticking-time-bomb scenario. He was Petraeus before Petraeus, the good soldier before the good soldier, window-dressing before window-dressing...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/09/iraq_powell/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
rudkla - 10. Aug, 12:27
