Searle: < I, myself, was a government employee for most of my working life...> I would never have imagined this to be the case. But the same is true for me as well.
<It's clear, to me any any rate, that he was considered a far more convincing orator than Negroponte, and that's why he was chosen in preference to the ambassador...>
IMO, Powell was chosen for what he had that no one else in the Bush adminstration possessed: integrity (or at least the appearance of it). He had nearly universal respect in the US without regard to political affiliation, race, etc.
And now? Just another of the fanatics who believe their own rantings about the evil boogey man. All the while sitting on their own stockpiles of nukes, chemical agents, biologicals, napalm, cluster bombs, land mines, etc, etc, etc. |
