Rebranding Bush as man of peace

[dutchdemocrat]

Good news? Cheney losing grip?

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Rebranding Bush as man of peace

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But in an interview published this week, the secretary of state, Colin Powell, seemed to suggest the policy battle was finally going his way. Mr Powell acknowledged that the administration's top priority in the coming months would be cooperative peace making, rather than war making.

"I'm going to work very hard in making clear to our friends in Europe and elsewhere in the world that America is a partner - spend more time with them, spend more time listening to them and finding ways what we can cooperate together," Mr Powell told the Washington Post.

On Iraq, Mr Powell indicated that a switch in US policy was required. He said the UN and Nato had essential roles to play and the US needed to persuade other countries to forgive or reschedule Iraq's $120bn (£67bn) foreign debts.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1115313,00.html

[virgdem]

1. How convenient for the administration in an election year -

Switch tactics, show that you are "men of peace" just in time for the election and after they win re-election, go right back to the warmongering that we have seen for the last three years. The course of action that Powell alludes to in the article should have been administration policy from the get go. Unfortunately, this is too little, too late for many of our former allies, as this administration has already done a great deal of damage with regard to international relations.

[Webster Green]

2. Yeah, I heard the evil chimp himself talking about...

"maintaining the peace". What a load of crap! Orwellian for sure.

[zbdent]

3. "Bush gets the Nobel Peace prize or . . .

the Iraqi kid gets it!"

I remember the hissy fit the Right had when somebody who didn't start a war in 2003 got the Peace prize instead of W.