Colin Powell resigns

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FoxNews is reporting that Colin Powell Secretary of State has resigned. Condoleeza Rice and John Danforth are leading candidates to take over.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Colin Powell announced his resignation to his staff during their Monday morning meeting, a State Department source told FOX News.

President Bush is expected to make the official announcement. The source suggested that Powell is likely to stay in place until a replacement is confirmed.

Several people have been named as a replacement, including Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. FOX News contributor and former ambassador Mark Ginsberg said Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz may also want the job, but could face trouble getting confirmed because of the troubles in Iraq that he takes the blame for. Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is also a darkhorse for the job, Ginsberg said.

''as has United Nations Ambassador John F. Danforth, who also come up as a candidate for Secretary of State Colin Powell's job''
 

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Hardly a surprise, by far the most respected internationally of Bush's team. His constant belittling by the hawks (who incidentally all scampered from doing duty) and apparent status as Uncle Tom could hardly have given him any job satisfaction.

This is a step backwards for the middle-east peace process as well.
 

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Well, goodbye to the only competent individual in the Bush administration.

If Rice or Wolfowitz get the job, it will be a disaster fpr America and the world. Just in theory, assuming someone managed to assassinate Bush and Cheney at the same time, isn't the Secretary of State third in line to succession?

Anyone fancy the idea of Wolfowitz as the most powerful man in the world? :eek:
 

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Well, goodbye to the only competent individual in the Bush administration.

If Rice or Wolfowitz get the job, it will be a disaster fpr America and the world. Just in theory, assuming someone managed to assassinate Bush and Cheney at the same time, isn't the Secretary of State third in line to succession?

Anyone fancy the idea of Wolfowitz as the most powerful man in the world? :eek:
No,the speaker of the House of Reps,then the secretary of state.
 

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NO,NO and NO.
You'd prefer Condi Rice then? Danforth is a guy who would work much harder on trying to build consensus than Rice. As the Ambassador to the UN he is also has a far better insight as to what the rest of the world are thinking and closer contacts with the international community. The US need someone who can 'sell' their position much better. Powell, whilst well respected, never really managed to do that. He's an experienced diplomat, something which is essential to the position of Secretary of State. I think he's easily the best candidate for the job.
 
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Its Condoleeza "regime change' Rice. probably the most dangerous woman since Bodacea.

I think they think the election win gives them the right to go after Iran, Dyria and probably North Korea.


Starting to be relieved I line in the 'arse end' of the world, although we could be the ultimate 'soft target'
 

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Ray Nolan said:
You'd prefer Condi Rice then? Danforth is a guy who would work much harder on trying to build consensus than Rice. As the Ambassador to the UN he is also has a far better insight as to what the rest of the world are thinking and closer contacts with the international community. The US need someone who can 'sell' their position much better. Powell, whilst well respected, never really managed to do that. He's an experienced diplomat, something which is essential to the position of Secretary of State. I think he's easily the best candidate for the job.
Danforth is even more right wing then Rice and would continue the bush policies in Iraq.
 

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Really liked Colin Powell (despite the rubbish he sold the UN about WMDs), would even back him for President. The Administration is now wholely and solely in the hands of the neo cons and rapture awaiting evangeliticals.
 

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Great bloke with the runs on the board...on the whole Iraq thing, you have to wonder just how much it would have ********ed him off having to keep his own views out of the equation on it.
 

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Personally, I think it's a worry when you as a leader surround yourself with yes-men/women...advisor should be able to have a wide cross section of viewpoints.
 

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With massive deficit budget, increased military spending and increasing losses in Iraq, afghanistan, pressure for action in the Middle East over israel, lack of action in Indonesia, sudan, and africa, withdrawal of troops from South Korea, and pressured over taiwan, and basically the Chinese economy plus the Euro economy increasing at a faster rate than the US economy, WITHOUT deficit budgets... Looks like Bush's leadership will be remarked as the worst in US history.

If China and Europe can bump up the price of oil, without a sufficient rail infrastructure, and so dependant on road and air for their economic well being, being linked to fuel prices, As well as nations like venezuala and Russia, and HOPEFULLY a future independant iraqi govt treating preferentially with China and Europe, the US economy might just go to the dogs.

heres hoping Mr Bush's lasting impression is one of disaster :D

if he fulfils his budgetary plans, he will leave the US in the red to the tune of Tens of thousands of billions of dollars, or tens of trillions of dollars :eek:
 

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heres hoping Mr Bush's lasting impression is one of disaster :D
Speak for yourself danny boy. I devoutly hope he succeeds, because if he doesn't he could take the world to hell on his way to failure. If the Bush administration are right and they actually do improve the world, I'll be the first to say so.

*Note: Do not take this as any personal agreement with pretty much any of the US's foreign policy, I might hope they're right, but strongly suspect they don't have a clue.
 

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Thank God the fellow whose first name is pronounced the same way as the name for the large bowel is gone.

Maybe now he is just a semi-colon.
When he was young,he pronounced Colin the same way everyone else does.Even his mother said'for god's sake',it's COLIN,not Co-Lin.
 

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The rise and rise of Condoleezza
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November 17, 2004

WASHINGTON: How close is Condoleezza Rice to George W. Bush? Guests at a Washington dinner party earlier this year were reportedly flabbergasted when Rice at one point said: "As I was telling my husb... " then stopped and said: "As I was telling President Bush."

True story or not -- the dinner was hosted by the New York Times but not reported by it -- nobody other than Bush's wife Laura spends more time with the President than the 50-year-old Rice, who spends much of her weekends with the Bushes at Camp David or their Texas ranch.

If Rice, as expected, becomes Secretary of State, it will be another example of her lifelong habit of overachieving and proving that her circumstances -- a black girl who grew up in the segregated South -- were no obstacle to success.

At four she played classical piano in public, at 19 she graduated from university, at 25 she was teaching political science, and at 38 she became second in charge of Stanford University.

Then, when Bush won office in 2000, she became the first woman to be national security adviser, age 46.

An only child, she grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, which in the 1960s was wracked by racial violence including the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, when four young black girls including a kindergarten classmate of Rice's were killed.

A single woman, Rice loves football, enjoys Led Zeppelin and hymns, reads Russian, can speak French and still plays piano to concert standard. Her name comes from the Italian musical notation 'con dolcezza', meaning to play with sweetness.

But she has had little time for entertainment in the past four years as she helped steer the presidential foreign policy novice, who once called Greeks Grecians, through one international crisis after another.

Her expertise was Soviet affairs, which she studied under Democrat secretary of state Madeleine Albright's father Joseph Korbel.

When George Bush Sr met Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 he is reported to have introduced Rice -- then working in his administration -- as the person who "tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union".

But the Cold War was dead when Rice arrived at the White House where one of the emerging problems for American national security was still largely unrecognised by the US.

Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism expert, says he told Rice about al-Qa'ida in a briefing early in 2000 and she "gave me the impression that she had never heard the term before".

Rice has angrily dismissed that claim. Still, the critics say she was too inexperienced on Middle East and Asian policy for the job, and not tough enough to deal with tensions between hawks Donald Rumsfeld and ******** Cheney, and the more moderate Colin Powell.
 
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