Foreign Policy Troika George W Bush 1st term (2001-04)
	Left: Condoleezza Rice. National Security Advisor. Theoretician of new American Imperium. "Dr. Condoleezza Rice is an honest, fabulous person. And America is lucky to have her service. Period." (George W Bush, Press conference, 30Jul03, 10:33EDT) She once had a Chevron oil tanker named after her when she served on the company's board of directors. (NY Daily News, 03Apr04)		Center: Colin Powell. Secretary of State. Realistic, moderate, multilateralist retired Army 4-star General. (Has no real power.)
		Right: George W Bush. President. Obsessed by idea that Saddam Hussein once "tried to kill my dad".[fn.63] Ratio: President Bush is to Captain Ahab, as Saddam Hussein is to Moby Dick?

Admire ingenious Bush diplomatic ploy against France, Germany and Belgium for their not joining his "coalition of the willing" to attack Iraq (Early Feb. 03). Discover how just one bullet could have avoided the U.S. 2003 invasion of Iraq! http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/troika.html Copyright © 2002-2005 Brad McCormick, Ed.D. bradmcc@cloud9.net 19 March 2006 (2006-03-19 ISO 8601) v06.03 post-Cold War world order: American King George II and Russian Czar Vladimir "in the majestic setting of the Catherine Palace outside St. Petersburg" [NYT, 22Nov02] -- prev: Leningrad.... Guilty Odessa mis-steps? "...[T]he expansion of NATO... to include seven... former Communist countries [Lithuania, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Bulgaria] should be welcomed by the Russian people." (George W Bush, quoted in Elisabeth Bumiller and Patrick E. Tyler, "Putin Questions U.S. Terror Allies", NYT, 23Nov02, p.A1,10) Convince yourself that Russia should welcome America's interventions in former Communist bloc states   "Mr. Bush told Mr. Woodward that he did not ask [Secretary of State Powell's] opinion on whether to go to war [with Iraq] because he thought he knew what that opinion would be: 'no.'" (Steven R. Weisman, "Airing of Powell's Misgivings Tests Ties in the Cabinet", NYT on the Web, 19Apr04)
		Cold War ally South Korea sentiment about U.S. 2002 foreign policy (NYT, 22Dec02, p.WK4. Reuters photo).[fn.64]

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