***The Second Bush Administration Shake-Up is HERE***

[ck4829]

We all rejoiced when the Bush Administration had a shake-up, some of the events that happened were McClellan's resignation and a reduction in powers for Karl Rove.

Well, another shake-up is about to hit the Administration.

Changes coming for Bush's team

"President Bush has chosen a 25-year intelligence veteran, retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell, to be the country's second national intelligence director as he reshapes national security strategy with two years left in his presidency.

The current director, career diplomat John Negroponte, will move into the long-vacant job as top deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/politics/article/0,1406,KNS_356_5257484,00.html

Bush to shake up his national security team

"President Bush is preparing to shake up his national security team and bring new faces to the United Nations, the military, the State Department and the U.S. embassy in Iraq, administration officials said yesterday.

In one high-profile shift, Adm. William Fallon, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command, would be nominated to succeed Army Gen. John Abizaid as head of the U.S. Central Command. Abizaid, who's been skeptical about the wisdom of sending more troops to Iraq, is scheduled to retire in March.

Bush also is expected to name a replacement for Army Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and to appoint the American ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to be the U.S. representative at the United Nations. Khalilzad's likely replacement in Baghdad is Ryan Crocker, a veteran Mideast expert who's now the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan."

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/16387990.htm

Miers Steps Down as White House Counsel

"Harriet E. Miers, President Bush’s longtime confidante and onetime Supreme Court nominee, has resigned as White House counsel, officials said Thursday."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/washington/05counsel.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Whole lot a shakin goin on

Now if only someone would shake a little sense, or even a little honor, into Commander AWOL...

[lapfog_1]

2. I can tell you right now that putting a Navy admiral in charge

of central command, no matter how talented, no matter how well intentioned, is going to be a disaster.

Bush probably hunted through the ranks of admirals, Army generals, Marine generals and Air Force generals until he found one that would go along with his "surge" strategery. But an admiral in charge of what is now a purely ground operation, and a guerrilla war at that, is just a huge mistake.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Remember....

...the military official who assumed the caretaker position of Hitler's Turd Reich was also an admiral, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I thought it was odd

But, I am not an expert in the military. Of course, neither is our War President.

[Peace Patriot]

10. It's for a nuke strike on Iran from the US fleet assembling in the Persian

Gulf. That's why AWOL appointed an admiral.

[aquart]

14. And follow it up with what? A brunch?

We don't have enough ground troops to take and hold the single city of Baghdad, and you think we're going to invade Iran. With nukes, no less.

[lapfog_1]

17. Nukes? probably not. A coordinated set of strikes on

suspected nuclear facilities in Iran with conventional bunker busters, that's possible.

To be followed up by a ground invasion? no, we don't have the assets to do that.

However, it is my feeling that bunker busters will not destroy the facilities, only delay things for a while until they dig through the surface rubble. What it will do is make our entire forces in the region targets for Iranian retaliation strikes. And that might escalate into an all out war, which we would then go nuclear since we cannot win with conventional forces. The fundies waiting for jeebus to appear in the clouds and the rapture to begin will love this. Which is why Bush might just do it.

[chemenger]

3. Sounds like Dubya is in "Vibrate" mode

"OOOHHHH! My prostate likey." as Jon Stewart said.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

6. Anybody know if Mike McConnell is related to Kentucky's own

Prince of Darkness Mitch McConnell? Think Mean Mitch has a couple of kids that have benefited from his position and I was wondering if Mike is a relation. If yes, then it goes without saying that Mike will be corrupt, incompetent, mean, nasty, will-do-anything-for-power, Bushy and Mitch's kind of a guy.

[tanyev]

5. The shell game continues.

[donheld]

12. That's all it is.

any way it goes we're screwed.

[Peace Patriot]

7. I see musical chairs. I see possible indictments and threatening revelations.

But I see no good in it, for US troops, for Iraqis or for the American people. I see an absolutely out-of-control executive who has now declared himself above yet another law--on opening our mail--and no one able to stop him. I see Democrats with no interest in restoring Constitutional government, who see illegal war, lying to Congress to take us into illegal war, slaughtering over 100,000 innocent people, i.e., genocide, illegal torturing of prisoners, illegal domestic spying, treason--outing CIA agents--writing hundreds of 'signing statements" placing himself and his junta outside the laws of Congress, massive thievery and murderous neglect of domestic emergency procedures and national security, as perfectly acceptable behavior in the President of the United States.

What is this man DOING appointing people to office? Appointing generals to run his disaster in Iraq, and make another one in Iran? What is this man DOING in our White House? HOW can impeachment be "off the table"?

Well, I know what and how. It's just very hard to get used to--to fully grok--that our elections are an illusion created by Bushite corporations, who are now "counting" all our votes with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and that the Democrats almost all voted FOR the "Help America Vote For Bush Act" of 2002--a bill from the Anthrax Congress, designed by Tom Delay and Bob Ney to destroy our election system--and none have objected. Corrupt? Scared? I don't know, for the most part. (Christopher Dodd is corrupt--colluded with Tom Delay and Bob Ney --others may be intimidated, bullied, or collusive--hard to say.) But that is the situation.

You wonder how Bush can be planning more war. This is how. Neither Bush and Cheney, nor the Diebold I or II Congress were legitimately elected. SOME of the Democrats in Congress are legitimate representatives of the people, some of those elected by the voters' revolt in '06, and their overwhelming of the machines. But many are not. And those who might want to do the right thing are hamstrung by those who do not. It is a sickening realization. But, unless we face the truth of things, we cannot restore democracy in this country.

"It's the election system, stupid!" And this is the result of it. SEVENTY PERCENT of the American people want this war ended. And the war goes on. And the latest pronouncement of our Fascist Dictator is that he can read your mail, and no one can--and no one will--stop him from doing so.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Great Post and

I feel your pain.

[aquart]

15. Thank you for your concern.

The Democratic process you care so much about is deliberately designed for slow incremental change, not huge instantaneous ones. For that, you do need a dictator.

[radfringe]

9. HEH - it's not a shake up

it's musical chairs at the mad hatter's tea party

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Only there's a few chairs missing this time.

[radfringe]

16. and it's the wrong music.. ;)