Powell returns Cheney's Serve

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Adam Nagourney
Monday, May 25, 2009


WASHINGTON — Colin Powell challenged former Vice President Dick Cheney on the legacy of the Bush administration and the future of the Republican Party on Sunday, saying that Republicans should not bow to "diktats that come from the right wing."

The remarks by Powell, a former secretary of state, were a public rebuttal to comments by Cheney and radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who have questioned the former general's Republican credentials and suggested that he should leave the party.

"Rush will not get his wish," Powell said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "And Mr. Cheney was misinformed. I am still a Republican."

Powell's appearance underlined the struggle among Republicans not only over the future of the party but also the legacy of the Bush administration, particularly on national security.

Powell broke with Cheney in saying that he agreed with President Barack Obama that the prison camp at Guántánamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed, and said that Cheney disagreed as much with his former boss as with Obama.

"Mr. Cheney is not only disagreeing with President Obama's policy," Powell said. "He's disagreeing with President Bush's policy. President Bush stated repeatedly to international audiences and to the country that he wanted to close Guántánamo. The problem he had was he couldn't get all the pieces together."

In another indication of Republicans pushing back against Cheney's remarks, Tom Ridge, who was President George W. Bush's first Homeland Security secretary, said on CNN that he disagreed with Cheney that the nation was less safe because of Obama's national security polities. Ridge said he also supports the closing of Guántánamo.

The comments came as some Republican congressional leaders are seeking to capitalize on concerns about national security and housing terrorism detainees from Guántánamo in local prisons.

Karl Rove, who was Bush's senior political adviser, saluted Cheney for leading the fight in challenging Obama, saying he was doing what other Republicans were not.

"I applaud Cheney," he said. "No one else was stepping forward."

Powell infuriated many in his party last fall when he endorsed Obama for president. His appearance on "Face the Nation" comes two weeks after Cheney, appearing on the same program, said he believed that Powell "had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican."

On Sunday, Powell called for an "after-action review" by Republicans of why the party fared so poorly in the November elections and what it needed to do going forward.

"After a battle or after a training exercise you bring all of the leaders in," Powell said. "And you say, 'What's going right? What's going wrong? What did we do right or wrong? And how do we move forward?'"

He said a major threat to the party was suggestions by Republicans like Cheney and Limbaugh that there was no room in the party for Republicans like Powell.

"I have always felt that the Republican Party should be more inclusive than it generally has been over the years," he said.



http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/05/25/0525gop.html

 

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Powell fires back in debate over GOP's future​

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, AP

WASHINGTON — Moderate Republicans to conservative Republicans: Turn down the volume — especially on Rush Limbaugh — and open your minds. The party's future might be at stake.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090524/US.Republican.Ruckus/

 

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I respect Powell for stepping up to the plate. I don't think Cheney or Rove want it with Powell...Rush, yeah he'll go there. But Cheney and Rove know the respect that Powell has in this country, and that Powell could probably crush the Bush legacy with a few appearances if they don't keep quiet with the bullshit.

I doubt Powell will even entertain the likes of Limbaugh....Rush digs further into his own grave everytime he breathes on the microphone.

 

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Dick Cheney Vs. Powell, Et Al.,
Memoir feeds the feud​

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir, 'In My Time,'
has passages critical of Colin Powell. The former secretary of
State took his shots on Sunday, and Cheney is jabbing back​

Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on the 'Today'
show with co-host Matt Lauer to talk about his new book
'In My Time,' on Tuesday, Aug. 30, in New York. Peter
Kramer/NBC/AP

By Peter Grier, Staff writer
August 30, 2011



Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday defended the way he treats ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell in his new memoir “In My Time”.

Mr. Cheney told interviewer Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” that while there are passages in the book critical of Mr. Powell, there are also chapters about how well the pair worked together at the Pentagon when Cheney was secretary of Defense and Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“So there’s a lot of very positive stuff in there. But a balanced account, I think, also required me to put down what my opinion was, and that’s what I’ve done,” said the ex-veep.


Cheney’s memoir is being officially released Tuesday. Among its most notable overall themes is that the Bush administration cabinet was a team of rivals, a group of antagonists who disagreed with each other – or at least with Vice President Cheney – and fought and backstabbed in the best Washington bureaucratic traditions.

For instance,

• in the book Cheney accuses Powell of undercutting President Bush’s move to invade Iraq by expressing doubts about the policy to people outside the administration.

• Things reached the point where after the 2004 election, Cheney pushed Mr. Bush to fire Powell, he writes. Powell’s resignation in November of that year “was for the best,” Cheney writes.

On George Tenet: “In My Time” also describes CIA chief George Tenet as resigning in 2004 “when the going got tough.”

On Condoleeza Rice: It includes a scene where Powell’s successor at Foggy Bottom, Condoleezza Rice, “tearfully” admits she’d been wrong to push Bush to apologize for inaccurate statements alleging that Iraq had tried to obtain yellowcake uranium in Niger.


Powell's Reply

Powell, for his part, has not let these allegations go. Appearing Sunday on CBS “Face the Nation,” he denied that he had undercut the war in Iraq, pointing out that it was he who made a presentation to the UN on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction (a presentation based on intelligence that turned out to be faulty.)

Powell also said that Cheney did not push him out – he resigned of his own accord. And he accused Cheney of taking “cheap shots” at his former colleagues.

“He has taken the same shots at Condi with an almost condescending tone; she tearfully did this or that. And he’s taken the same shots at George Tenet, and he has also, in some ways, indicated he didn’t always approve of what President Bush was deciding,” said Powell.


Cheney Steadfast

On Tuesday, Cheney defended not only his treatment of his colleagues but the invasion of Iraq itself.

“We eliminated a major source of proliferation. And when we took down Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi got religion and gave up all of his nukes,” said Cheney.

Nor is Cheney backing down on his approval of harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, despite polls showing most Americans consider them torture.

“And I would argue, Matt, that it’s important for us not to get caught up in the notion that you can only have popular methods of interrogation if you want to run an effective counterterrorism program,” Cheney told Lauer. “The fact is it worked.”






http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Electi...ney-versus-Colin-Powell-Memoir-feeds-the-feud

 

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