Josh Marshall offers a smart commentary on the strange noises emanating from the White House about whether either Cheney or Powell was out of line in their recent comments on Iraq policy:
| This is just clumsy damage control, an effort to make sense of the fact that the vice-president and the Secretary of State flatly contradicted each other on the central point of the president’s foreign policy agenda in less than a week. Consider the administration’s conceit: the president’s leadership is so vaunted, they say, that when he makes up his mind the allies, who oppose us, will support us. The public, which is ambivalent, will overwhelmingly endorse his policy. But how will he bend the world to his will when he can’t even get his own cabinet secretaries to endorse his policy? |
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