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To: sea_urchin who wrote (21934)	11/21/2004 9:22:57 AM
From: sea_urchin	of 81615

> We are bogged down in the Middle East because of Israel, not oil. telegraph.co.uk >>Powell 'pushed out' by Bush for seeking to rein in Israel Colin Powell, the outgoing US secretary of state, was given his marching orders after telling President George W Bush that he wanted greater power to confront Israel over the stalled Middle East peace process. "The clincher came over the Mid-East peace process," said a recently-retired state department official. "Powell thought he could use the credit he had banked as the president's 'good cop' in foreign policy to rein in Ariel Sharon [Israel's prime minister] and get the peace process going. He was wrong." Bob Woodward, the veteran Washington reporter who was granted unprecedented access to the first Bush administration for his books Bush At War and Plan Of Attack, said last week that Mr Powell had been "dreaming" if he thought that he could stay on.<<

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