Help: is this fact or fiction - Rummy, Condi and Powell not coming back

[Selwynn]

My Dad said that Condi, Rummy and Powell have all made it official that they won't be back in a second Bush term.

My Dad is a cool guy, but I think that's totally mistaken, isnt it? If that ever happened, I totally missed it?

Can someone shed some light on this?

[hlthe2b]

1. Condi has... and I believe Powell has leaked intentions, but not official?

Rummy, I don't think has said...

[MirrorAshes]

8. link to Condi saying this?

this is news to me

[hlthe2b]

11. re

May 19, 2004
Rice Tells Friends She's Leaving At Year End
"President Bush’s plan to make national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice the first female African-American Secretary of State is dead," the Washingtonian reports.

"Republican congressional sources say Rice’s resistance to testifying in public before the September 11 commission—even then doing it so effectively—has made the onetime wonder girl too controversial politically to ever get past a Senate confirmation hearing."

"A former Stanford provost, Rice has been telling pals that she’s returning to California even if Bush is reelected."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/05/19/rice_tells_friends_shes_leaving_at_year_end.html
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Nov. 10 issue - Burned out by two wars and drained by ideological disputes, President George W. Bush’s national-security team is dreaming of a kinder, gentler life outside government. Condoleezza Rice, the national-security adviser, talks of serving “dog years” in the White House. A senior official says, “Every year feels like seven because there’s been too much to do.” In public, team members say they’re too busy to think about their future; in private, the jockeying for potential positions is well underway.


RICE ONCE seemed a surefire bet to move to the State Department. But associates now insist she has no interest in State’s sprawling diplomatic bureaucracy and is keen to step out of the limelight after a grueling five years as Bush’s chief foreign-policy adviser (including more than a year on the 2000 campaign). Possible replacements include Robert Blackwill, Rice’s strategic adviser, and Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy Defense secretary, who were both advisers on Bush’s 2000 campaign. Among the outsiders is John Bolton, the hawkish under secretary of State, who is close to Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3339560/

[MirrorAshes]

12. Wow thanks--don't know how I missed this!

Seems like it would be bigger news. Thanks again!

[Langis]

2. He is right, but Bush will not get a second term

So it doesn't really matter anyway.

[Catfight]

3. I have heard condi and powell are not coming back, I hadn't heard

about Dumbsfield, although he should be fired or jailed soon.

[Selwynn]

7. Hmm....

[WilliamPitt]

4. It's a fact. They're not coming back

Neither are Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith, Cambone, Rove and the rest of them.

[Cleita]

10. Hehe.

Good one. My thoughts exactly. So time for RICO and Leavenworth, I say.

[rock]

5. We'll never know

as Kerry is not likely to want any of these people on his staff.

[Selwynn]

6. You know, a straight answer would really be nice.

Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment. But I just asked a serious question.

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. Powell's the only one I've heard about

that has no intentions for a second term. Rumsfeld may be in jail the way things are going for him, though.

I haven't heard anything about Condi. She seems to be missing quite a bit lately. Maybe she's on job interviews. ;)

[sleipnir]

13. As of now YES to all three, but....

Hypothetically, IF, IF, Bush is re-selected, all three will be gone within 18 months. They're just around for show, the Cabal will replace all three, as they will be too tainted for a full second term. I believe that Condi is still the sacrificial lamb, she's the one that will go first, then look for Powell to exit, gracefully, and finally Rummy will leave sometime around Dec 2005. Bush's only chance of accomplishing his world domination in the next term is to convince the world that it's not the same team. "No, really, these new guys aren't as bad as the old one who left..." (Same reason why Cheney might be off the ticket or later resign under health conditions.)

Anyway, the point is moot as * is done after this term!!!

[shraby]

14. If Bush is happy with this bunch

and he steals the election, I sure hate to see what he replaces them with.