Letters to the Editor
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Ole Sarge
If you think that Cheney and Rumsfield had years of upstanding civil service, you're reading the wrong history books. Spending years involved in government work doesn't mean that you were honorable, it just meant that you never got kicked out of the room.
Powell and Condi, on the other hand, are just sad examples of people getting what they thought they deserve, only to find themselves woefully unprepared for the job. Powell was competent as the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, but Secretary of State was overreaching. Condi would have been a great NSA chief or Secretary of State in the 1980s - her specialty is Cold War diplomacy - but it's no secret that she brought a knife to the gun fight in the diplomatic game of today.
Gonzalez will be asked to resign as an offering to the Congress to not keep pressing the issue. If he's gone and they keep pursuing it, all of a sudden the claim that this is a 'fishing expedition' starts to make more sense to people who don't really understand what the big deal about this scandal really is.
Tread softly Dems. Make sure that while you building up your head of steam you don't explode.