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To: yard_man who wrote (173988)	6/19/2002 9:37:04 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

At least some one else agrees wiht me regarding Powell ........ he is nothing more than a media manipulator ................................................................................................................................... "[Bush is] a peacetime president," she said. "No one can fault him for that. But then he has to change his administration. He needs an adviser who can crack heads and Condolleeza Rice cannot do that." Mylroie said Bush was right to send Rumsfeld to central Asia recently on a mission to try to reconcile Pakistan and India, but she criticized his decision to send Powell to the Middle East. "He's making a mistake letting Colin Powell have the voice he does in the shaping of U.S. national security policy," she said. "That voice has to be filled either by getting rid of Powell or by putting someone in the position of [national security adviser] who can give Powell orders." Also, the terrorism expert said she believes Bush is having trouble establishing his authority "over the bureaucracy – in this case, the State Department." "My concern is that the president does not have control over the bureaucracy," she said, noting that Bush still has "the same people in the CIA and the Justice Department who were saying during the Clinton years" that key states, like Iraq, "are not involved in terrorism." Clinton administration officials "were saying, 'It's just a loose network of militant Muslims'" committing terrorist acts. Now, she said, "these same people are saying the same thing because they don't want to acknowledge their responsibility. They contributed to the deaths of over 3,000 [Americans], and I don't know if George Bush understands that." Asked what advice she would give to Bush, Mylroie said she would tell the president: "One, get rid of Saddam Hussein as soon as possible and … do it by finishing up the [1991 Gulf War], and, two, take all necessary measures to protect the American people against [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's] possible retaliations." "We have to let the people know that we are in a real war. I'm sure that the people will accept it," said Mylroie. "They don't want to be vulnerable to another 9-11. Until we get rid of Saddam, we have to take expensive civil-defense measures." Regarding Sept. 11 hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta, Mylroie disputed high-profile news reports denying his alleged meeting with an Iraqi official: "The Czechs said, after 9-11, that Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague in April of 2001. Two months ago, U.S. officials George Tenet, head of the CIA and Michael Chertoff, head of the Justice Department Criminal Division, leaked to the media, Newsweek and Time and the Washington Post and the New York Times, … that the Czechs had taken back that story." In fact, said Mylroie, "the Czechs responded to that and said, 'We have not changed our position.' And just earlier this month the Czech U.N. ambassador said Atta met with the Iraqi intelligence agent. That did not make the mainstream U.S. press!" worldnetdaily.com