Not quite a dream team.

[mgc1961]

This is an interesting article about Mr. Kerry's foreign policy advisors.

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9966

[emulatorloo]

1. Kerry is a prosecutor -- Beers has turned on Bush and is valuable witness

Simplistic editorial - Don't forget Kerry's background as a Prosecutor.

Washington Post article re Beers quitting Bush *really really* worth reading.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer

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"The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure," said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his National Security Council job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism. "As an insider, I saw the things that weren't being done. And the longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out."

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The focus on Iraq has robbed domestic security of manpower, brainpower and money, he said. The Iraq war created fissures in the United States' counterterrorism alliances, he said, and could breed a new generation of al Qaeda recruits. Many of his government colleagues, he said, thought Iraq was an "ill-conceived and poorly executed strategy."

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[mgc1961]

2. Thanks for the additional info.

[emulatorloo]

3. Yr welcome --

He has Ambassador Wilson as an advisor too. . .JK seems to be putting a team together that can really blast GWB during election campaign. Least that's my take on it.

[mgc1961]

4. I do love it when...

...current or former Republican party members and their employees blast this administration. Heck, as a younger man I semi-identified with the Republicans, but this monster is nothing like that party.