Yeah, you probably know about that speech, if you read my site yesterday.

Of course, like you, I didn't see anything particularly noteworthy about a whiny bureaucrat. Nope, I just loved NRO's Cliff May's sarcastic retort to the whole piece.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I remember reading the WashPost's blurb on the story. The headline should have been "Some Guy Notes Changes at Work Place"

Its so stupid, the State Deptartment is being changed by the president. But, its all part of the continuing reporting of everything that can be spun as bad for Bush.

Could this "cabal" be called a security cabinet.

I just wanted to note for the record that I've always wanted to be part of a cabal. Not a clique or gang or group or pack of mutts; a cabal. It sounds sinister and cool and vaguely occult, like the kind of place you could pick up a hot chick who says she's a Wiccan but is really just crazy but is also more fun than a barrel of monkeys in the sack, you know?

Do followers of the Ace 'O' Spades Lifestyle(tm) constitute a cabal? If so, what dread power do we weild, and how can I terrify rabbity lefties with it?

Careful what you wish for there Monty.

You could end up in a hotel bathtub full of ice with the telephone near with a note telling you to call 9-11, your kidney's been taken!!!

;-)

I see myself as more of a minion. Not as craven as a sycophant, not as energetic as a flying monkey. The cabal sounds like too much of an active lifestyle for me.

S. Weasel:

You might want to look into being a henchman rather than a minion; I understand they have a better union. (Although they did recently amend the bylaws to refer to themselves as hench-persons rather than Henchmen after they lost their court case.) Minions tend to get all the crap-work and none of the glory.

It occured to me the other day, and I am now reminded of it (amazing the way those little white pills affect the memory) that Sadam's Persons of the Hench Persuasion in the UN had zero motivation to let the sanctions end. In fact, they had about 60 billion reasons to keep Sadam twisting in the wind. Am I wrong? Maybe he had a whole new incentive plan for when the Hench persons on the security council voted to end sanctions, kind of like when you reach Diamond level with Amway.

I'm confused, don't you have to be Jewish to be in a cabal? Or is that merely a neocon-cabal?

I am glad that cabals are back in the spotlight, what with cronies being something in vogue recently.

I think I would rather be a Hired Goon rather than a Henchman or a Minion. Hired Goons work for a higher class of employer.

Scot, I agree with you on this one, only I would extend it a bit further to included things like the French providing such wonderful intelligence. They wanted to maintain the OFF scam and believed they could prevent US action.

When history is written I believe the exposure of the corruption of Wilkerson's beloved diplomatic arenas around the world will have made Iraq worth the costs.
DKK

Funny quotes above, but to vent a little:

Gulf War I, Colin Powell backhandedly leaks to press he told Bush I it "wouldn't be chivalrous" to keep pursuing parts of Iraqi army during operation.

Gulf War II, he backhandedly leaks to press while poll numbers are turning that he told Bush he did not agree with tactics and strategy.

Bolton to UN nomination he backhandedly tells Republican senators that he doesn't like Bolton, gave senators permission to tell press what he said.

Now, he sends a lackey to go to the press to blasht administration. His lackey said Powell is too honorable a soldier to come out himself.

Colin Powell is a complete scumbag. A media creation who is the most overrated public official ever.

Like Dave, I enjoyed Cliff May's smack-down of this State Dept. hack.

On the way home from work yesterday, I tuned into the local Err America outlet and the local moonbat they have on in the afternoons was practically peeing her panties in excitement over Wilkerson's speech. I wanted to call in and read her Cliff May's piece, but then I thought, why bother.

Monty, at this place the only power you wield is the Dread d20 of Doom.