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To: LindyBill who wrote (76173)	2/21/2003 12:19:22 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) of 281500

No. I think I heard somewhere that he was offered something inside and turned it down so as to be able to speak his mind more freely, which is plausible. The question that would raise, however, would be, "what was he offered?" because that would put the decision in different lights depending on whether the initial offer was for something really important or something relatively minor. Frankly, I really can't understand his present role; I've never seen anything like it. I mean, he is constantly saying absolutely outrageously radical things--stuff that creates real heartburn abroad--and is generally considered to be expressing the true thoughts of key administration players. Yet the administration doesn't, in fact, seem to agree with everything he says, and must at times be driven to distraction by his shenanigans. And yet he is never disciplined or repudiated. It's truly bizarre. Almost certainly it's evidence of a deeply divided, practically dysfunctional foreign policy team, in which he's a protected favorite of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz who feels free to bash Powell and others with immunity. tb@nowaytorunarailroad.com

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