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Hottest person you know: K. O’Neill...
...then came January and the ill winds. Bush's fired Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill greeted the President in the New Year with revelations in a tell-all book that made Bush out to be at best incurious and at worst deceitful, bent on war with Iraq from the very first days in office. The manned mission to Mars was rolled out with a flourish and then muted when the polls showed people thought it was a ridiculous waste of money. Bush's State of the Union address seemed, even to sympathetic Republicans, to have been mailed in, with...
...Some Bush officials even concede this directly, saying that 9/11 "changed everything" and compelled the administration to take a new look at old problems. Others cast it in a darker light: Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has revealed that the Bush administration began seeking a pretext to invade Iraq even before 9/11, and with General Wesley Clark's charge that 9/11 provided such a pretext even though there was no connection between Iraq and the attacks. And the idea of seeing Iraq as a new threat based on old intelligence was precisely prevented the Bush administration winning UN backing...
...used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back ... It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else." PAUL O'NEILL, former Treasury Secretary, on statements in the new book The Price of Loyalty, in which he characterized President Bush's behavior in economic-policy meetings as "a blind man in a room full of deaf people...
...President I know is one who is fully engaged, who does ask tough questions, who pesters me all the time with questions." JOHN SNOW, O'Neill's successor as Treasury Secretary, disputing his predecessor's depiction...