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Source reports that Colin Powell, Spencer Abraham, Ann Veneman and Rod Paige are all to leave the Bush administration, following the departure of both John Ashcroft and Don Evans on the 10th of November. Mr. Powell has confirmed this on his account.
Mr. Powell was seen as "a moderating force" and was popular among politicians; however, he ended up at odds with the Whitehouse over the Iraq conflict. His highest profile event was to make a statement to the United Nations outlining the reasons for war; he later admitted that some of the information in that speech - particularly about mobile laboratories allegedly used for making biological weapons - "appeared not to be ... that solid."
"The Secretary announced to his staff this morning that he had submitted his resignation on Friday," Reuters quoted a state department official as saying. "He said he was staying on until a successor is confirmed and on board."
The 67-year-old was long rumoured to have planned to serve only one term as secretary of state. He was often seen as a moderate in a cabinet full of hawks, who sometimes struggled to get his voice heard.
Upon close inspection two of the "laboratories" turned out to be abandoned caravans with narry a molecule of anything more dangerous than helium within them. Whatever your thoughts on the rest of the war, you have to admit, mistaking an abandoned caravan for a mobile bio-weapons research facility is not exactly easy and probably didn't do the poor man's pride much good at all...
In related news, the CIA agent who headed the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the late 1990s has called for a national debate in the US on the cost of support for Israel.
Mike Scheuer quit the CIA last week, as did CIA deputy director John McLaughlin, fuelling rumours of serious internal rifts and low morale. In a BBC interview, Mr Scheuer said US policies risked "an extraordinarily long and bloody war" against al-Qaeda. He said he had resigned to speak out over US government security failings.
Mr. Scheuer has called for a debate upon the funding of Israel as well as renewable energy and concerns over President Bush's rejection of various pacts over the latter have subsequently emerged.
This outmigration of senior political figures is partnered with the current pseudo-exodus of US citizens, attempting to migrate away from America and into Canada and the United Kingdom following President Bush's re-election, including a spoof site set up encouraging Canadians to marry and American in order to help them move from America for the next four years.
Rich::
Mr. Powell was seen as "a moderating force" and was popular among politicians; however, he ended up at odds with the Whitehouse over the Iraq conflict. His highest profile event was to make a statement to the United Nations outlining the reasons for war; he later admitted that some of the information in that speech - particularly about mobile laboratories allegedly used for making biological weapons - "appeared not to be ... that solid."
"The Secretary announced to his staff this morning that he had submitted his resignation on Friday," Reuters quoted a state department official as saying. "He said he was staying on until a successor is confirmed and on board."
The 67-year-old was long rumoured to have planned to serve only one term as secretary of state. He was often seen as a moderate in a cabinet full of hawks, who sometimes struggled to get his voice heard.
Upon close inspection two of the "laboratories" turned out to be abandoned caravans with narry a molecule of anything more dangerous than helium within them. Whatever your thoughts on the rest of the war, you have to admit, mistaking an abandoned caravan for a mobile bio-weapons research facility is not exactly easy and probably didn't do the poor man's pride much good at all...
In related news, the CIA agent who headed the hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the late 1990s has called for a national debate in the US on the cost of support for Israel.
Mike Scheuer quit the CIA last week, as did CIA deputy director John McLaughlin, fuelling rumours of serious internal rifts and low morale. In a BBC interview, Mr Scheuer said US policies risked "an extraordinarily long and bloody war" against al-Qaeda. He said he had resigned to speak out over US government security failings.
Mr. Scheuer has called for a debate upon the funding of Israel as well as renewable energy and concerns over President Bush's rejection of various pacts over the latter have subsequently emerged.
This outmigration of senior political figures is partnered with the current pseudo-exodus of US citizens, attempting to migrate away from America and into Canada and the United Kingdom following President Bush's re-election, including a spoof site set up encouraging Canadians to marry and American in order to help them move from America for the next four years.
Rich::
