"WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) has selected Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), his national security adviser and trusted confidant, to replace Colin Powell (news - web sites) as secretary of state, officials said Monday, in a major shakeup of the president's national security team. Three other Cabinet secretaries also resigned.


Powell, a retired four-star general who often clashed on Iraq (news - web sites) and other foreign policy issues with more hawkish members of Bush's administration, said he was returning to private life once his successor was in place."


HOLY MOLY!! No wonder Condi did such a dumbass job -- she was in the wrong position!! She was diplomacy, not security!! Wow -- isn't it great we got that cleared up?? Now we'll see international relations fly!!!

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