Tale of Two Diplomats
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Mike Gaskey wrote: Ms. Rice as a terrific succcess based on what, exactly ? can you give me a list of her accomplishments ? Mike Gaskey wrote: the liberal media views Powell as some sort of traitor for doing the job he agreed to do not a traitor, just a 'good soldier' who did what he was told, against his own better judgement, and squandered his own good reputation in the process. more tragedy than crime. Software | Cleek
The National Security Advisor is appointed by the President without confirmation by the Senate. As such he or she is not connected to the bureaucratic politics of the Departments of State and Defense and therefore is able to offer independent advice. The power and role of the National Security Advisor varies from administration to administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Advisor[^] Doesn't sound like NSA's ever "accomplish" much, nor really have much power to do so. I suppose you could only judge her success by looking at the advice she gave and decide whether or not it was solid. BW The Biggest Loser
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JoeSox wrote: Why wasn't she smart enough to double check the bad intelligence from all those sources? Okay, now let's examine this but from your perspective. You're (according to your bio) a system's administrator and you've just informed your CIO that you've identified a threat to your system and you need umpty-two $$ to protect it with some new piece of hardware / software. Does he duplicate your work in order to prove you right or wrong? Same thing applies here, Rice's subordinates (including one that later publishes a book stating some different) tells her there are threats. So, does she go to country "X" and verify or trust the trusted employee and act or recommend acting on the intelligience? JoeSox wrote: but if she is Bush's right hand-woman and Bush is making bad judgment calls. Subjective, you disagree with decisions but 50% of teh country doesn't. JoeSox wrote: What the f*** is really happening at the Whitehouse? Someone if FINALLY looking out for us, my opinion. Mike "liberals were driven crazy by Bush." Me To: Dixie Sluts, M. Moore, the Boss, Bon Jovi, Clooney, Penn, Babs, Soros, Redford, Gore, Daschle - "bye bye" Me "I voted for W." Me "There you go again." RR "Flushed the Johns" Me
Mike Gaskey wrote: Does he duplicate your work in order to prove you right or wrong? I understand your point but this example is not billions of dollars of debt that will be passed on to future generations of Americans, nor is it Manifest Destiny. I am sympathetic to the fact that the whole Whitehouse, including Rice, was going off of bad evidence/intel from the CIA and other sources. To put it in a programming perspective, Bayesian Networks. If the evidence is false then the belief system will be in error. I think there is something really wrong will the checks and balances at the CIA but I really need to read the 9/11 Commission Report[^]. I haven't made time to do that yet. Later, JoeSox Word of the Day: clerisy http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ CPMCv1.0 ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ joeswammi.com/sinfest
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