Bush Stops Kissing Rumsfeld's Ass Long Enough to Kiss Powell's Ass a Little

[Phaedrus]

In an apparent acknowledgment that postwar reconstruction efforts in Iraq are floundering, the White House plans to name a politically astute career diplomat to replace Jay Garner as the civilian administrator of the country.

Story here.


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[DirkDigAlert]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>In terms of finding someone to manage this process, which has not started out well, I do not believe that [the White House] could have done better” than to select Bremer, said Robert Gelbard, a retired career diplomat who led post-conflict efforts in Haiti, Bosnia and East Timor. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


From a " career diplomat "....I would expect nothing less.