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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 10:22 AM
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Where are they now: Bush's former war cabinet
DONALD RUMSFELD, 74, secretary of defense, 2001 to 2006.

Now: Has been out of the public eye since resigning in November 2006. One residence believed to be a waterside property in St. Michaels village in Maryland, about an hour and a half's drive from Washington. Vice President Dick Cheney is a neighbor.

COLIN POWELL, 69, secretary of state, 2001 to 2005.

Now: lecture circuit; member of the board for AOL co-founder Steve Case's health firm Revolution; strategic limited partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

. . .

DOUGLAS FEITH, 53, undersecretary of defense for policy, 2001 to 2005.

Now: professor of national security policy at Georgetown University. Writing memoir on the war on terrorism.

RICHARD PERLE, 65, chairman of Defense Policy Board at the Defense Department, 2001 to 2003.

Now: resident fellow at American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank.



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PAUL WOLFOWITZ
GEORGE TENET
LEWIS "SCOOTER" LIBBY
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 10:27 AM
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1. Except for Scooter, they all landed on their feet and
V. Plame Wilson is out of a career. :eyes:
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Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 10:50 AM
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2. And where are the soldiers they sent to war?
Yep, still in Iraq fighting the war they started. :-(
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legin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 10:58 AM
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3. At least wolfowitz appears to be a hated head of the world bank
speaking of him (an off topic comment) in case this didn't make it's way here.

blair gave a private speech at Davos recently to a selected audiance. Amoung the elite selection: Bill Gates and wife, Murdoch and wife, members of Kennedy-Shriver clan, and Wolfowitz.

Somehow I came over all 'let them eat cake'.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 11:04 AM
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4. Wolfowitz selling his saliva as Brylcreem never took off, even with
that free commercial in Fahrenheit 9/11.
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badgervan Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-17-07 11:31 AM
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5. Powell
More than anyone else, Colin Powell supplied the credibility that enabled bush/cheney to wage illegal war. As a Navy vet, Powell used to be one of my heroes. To this day, I have a hard time believing what he did to provide cover for the worst administration in our country's history. I am still waiting for him to forcefully speak out against bush/cheney, and what they have done to our country. I hope that his conscience bothers him - big time. What could have been....
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