Look, look, look! Powell chimes in on Bolton!

Powell Expresses Concerns About Bush Nominee


WASHINGTON (April 21) - President Bush on Thursday issued a strong new defense of John R. Bolton, his nominee as ambassador to the United Nations. But associates of Colin L. Powell, the former secretary of state, said he had expressed reservations about Mr. Bolton in conversations with at least two wavering Republican senators.

The associates said Mr. Powell, in private telephone conversations, had made clear his concerns about Mr. Bolton on several fronts, including his harsh treatment of subordinates.

The associates said Mr. Powell had also praised Mr. Bolton's performance on some matters during his tenure as under secretary of state, but they said Mr. Powell had stopped well short of the endorsements offered by Mr. Bush and by Mr. Powell's own successor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The accounts of Mr. Powell's private messages about Mr. Bolton suggested a new gulf between the former secretary of state and Mr. Bush. In a speech in Washington on Thursday, Mr. Bush portrayed Democratic opposition to Mr. Bolton as politically driven, and urged the Senate to confirm the nomination.

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Bolton is a very bad choice. It looks like Powell can not be controlled by the chimp any longer.

but it seems that he has a mind of his own after all

five previous Secretary of States have endorsed BOLTON over and against POWELL's assertions re: BOLTON. They were also fired up about how POWELL should have shut the hell up being that CHIMPY had named him SECRETARY OF STATE during his first administration.

For all the morality the chimpy lovers seem to have...they really have no sense of morality or of moral direction.

Powell speaking out now may be a case of reality based sour grapes... but if they are ... i am glad he is having them spilled out... in the spelling out of who john bolton really is. PUBLIC ENEMY # 1!

"Lookit, Powell lied to the UN about weppons of mass deshtruckshen. Now he's lying about Michael Bolton's treatment of inordinates."

eating themselves rather than jump. It's been a long time coming.

The Republican Party = WMD's