NYT: New Bush Cabinet Seen as Move for More Harmony and Control

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - President Bush has instructed his new national security team to end the running battles between the State and Defense departments and the Central Intelligence Agency, and to extend his personal control over agencies he has suspected of impeding his foreign policy aims, according to current and former administration officials.

One senior official said Mr. Bush decided months ago to make no effort to retain Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who had long indicated he planned to leave.

A close associate of Mr. Powell said he would have stayed if asked, at least for a while. "He was never asked," the associate said.

So when Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, told Mr. Bush at Camp David on the weekend just after his re-election that she was willing to stay for a second term, he quickly offered her the secretary of state job, a post that she told friends last year she thought did not suit her sometimes impatient temperament.

"Her interests ran to Defense," said a national security official who just left the administration. "But the president didn't want to change horses in the middle of a war."

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http://nytimes.com/2004/11/17/politics/17recon.html?hp&ex=1100667600&en=79b1d1ed11a55b12&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Art_from_Ark]

1. "Harmony"

the new Orwellian term for "lockstep"

[cubsfan forever]

3. You got that right! n/t

Professor 2

[rpannier]

2. What they meant by...

"the president didn't want to change horses in the middle of a war."
was he didn't want to change a horseman in the midst of the apocalypse.

[Javaman]

4. Of course there will be more Harmony, Rice, the morons mouth piece will..

Just parrot everything he says. Someone on here said it best, now moron is SOS.

[judgegina]

WTF?

n/t

[truthisfreedom]

5. so now we have a self-admitted "bad temperment" sec. of state. woohoo.

just what we need. more incompetence.

[TahitiNut]

6. Yeah, that counterpoint sounded so "go for barouque" ...

... time for simpleton whoremoney harmony. After all, good martial music never bothered with counterpoint. :eyes:

[Booster]

7. More control? Jesus, how much control could there possibly be?