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To: ManyMoose who wrote (275487)	10/19/2008 8:52:46 PM
From: Sedohr Nod	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793625

One of Powell's answers in an interview has stuck with me for a few years....He said ..."when have I ever quit anything?". This was before the second term, you would have to conclude that he was fired.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (275487)	10/19/2008 8:54:29 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 793625

He never had Bush's ear................

To: ManyMoose who wrote (275487)	10/20/2008 12:40:41 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793625

There is a lot of bad blood between Powell and the Bush administration. Why is that? Recall the whole Plame affair, and the huge beating that Bush, Cheney, Rove and Libbey took over it. The investigation, and in Libbey's case a perjury trial and conviction. All over who leaked Valerie Plame's name to the press, when Fitzpatrick and Powell knew from the start it was Powell's good buddy Richard Armitage. Powell protected Armitage and let the Bush administration take terrific damage for a charge he knew they were innocent of.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (275487)	10/20/2008 8:19:10 AM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793625

There is a lot of bad blood between Powell and the Bush administration. Why is that? I'll offer one possibility: I'd heard that in the first Bush administration, when Powell was the Chairman of the JCS, he was more influential than Cheney, who was Defense Secretary. Reportedly, it was Powell who was the driving force behind the invasion of Panama. It seems that the reverse was true when he became Secy of State. He may feel, with some justification IMO, that Cheney's dominance has had an extremely negative impact on US foreign policy over the past several years.