Senator: Bush Must Take Charge [bush is an impotent puppet...CBSnews)

[truthisfreedom]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/09/politics/main577266.shtml?cmp=EM8707

Senators: Bush Must Take Charge

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2003

“The president has to be the president, over the vice president and over these secretaries.”
Republican Sen. Dick Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee


(CBS/AP) President George W. Bush has lost control of Iraq policy because of infighting among administration officials, the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.

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Added the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden: “There's no clear articulation within this administration of what the goals, what the message is, what the plan is. You have this significant division within the administration between the Powells and the Rumsfelds.”
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The vote was correct, Biden said, because war was necessary to depose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. “I just did not count on the fact that it would be handled with such a degree of incompetence subsequent to the quote military victory,” Biden said.
The administration also came under criticism from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry for being unwilling to create a real international coalition and alienating governments everywhere.
“This is haphazard, shotgun, shoot-from-the-hip diplomacy,” said the Massachusetts senator who is seeking his party's nomination to run against Bush next autumn.

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there's a lot more... good story!

[JohnyCanuck]

1. Do they really expect the puppet to control the puppet masters

fighting over who'se gonna pull his strings. What a laugh, if it weren't so frickin'pathetic.

[TahitiNut]

2. duplicate

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=163182

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