The Man Who Wasn't There, Still Here (Stephen Hadley)

[maddezmom]

"Anybody seen Steve Hadley? Anybody seen Steve Hadley?"

Jane Purcell, part of the American entourage at yesterday's meeting of President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative at the Washington Hilton, was trying urgently to find the national security adviser. It turned out Hadley, who arrived 15 minutes early for his speech to the group, was hiding out with his security detail in an empty hallway outside the meeting room. Aides searched for a better hideout away from the scores of diplomats who were on hand to witness a rare public appearance by the secretive Hadley.

Purcell finally found Hadley, then led him through the ballroom -- where he didn't so much as pause to greet the "senior-level" foreign officials -- to another hiding place on the other side of the room.

It was classic Hadley -- the invisible man of the Bush presidency. National security adviser for Bush's second term and No. 2 at the National Security Council for the first term, Hadley has had a leading role in the foreign-policy adventures of the past eight years -- and yet he leaves no fingerprints. Though closer to Bush longer than any other top White House official, he has been a lone noncombatant in a blame game among the likes of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice.

In his new kiss-and-tell about the administration, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes that Bush "was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security." That would seem to include Hadley, identified by McClellan as a protege of Cheney and one of the "Vulcans" who formed Bush's ill-fated foreign policy. But while other Vulcans -- Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle -- went on to infamy, Hadley went for anonymity. "Most people on the outside are not familiar with Hadley," McClellan correctly observes, calling him, with understatement, "low-key."

more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803030.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Vulcans! What an insult! Call them Assholes! Call them Romulans! Call them Lizard People!

Call them Borg! Call them Cylons! Call them Genocidal Maniacs! But where the heck do they get off calling slaughterers of 1.2 million people to get their oil VULCANS! Mr. Spock would raise his eyebrows at the illogic of it. "Vulcans" who invade a helpless country--a country with no air force, crippled by war and sanctions--and carpet-bomb its civilian population? VULCANS?! It doesn't even make sense as a synonym for "hawk." A "hawk" is not a coward. And it makes no sense as a reference to the fictional race that entered the lexicon via Star Trek. Vulcans may be coldly logical but they are not immoral. They are peacemakers and diplomats, with high ethical standards. Hadley & co. are cold, immoral, unethical, genocidal scumbags. They don't deserve this high-blown name, whatever they mean by it. Worms. Hyenas. Hogs. Those fit. "Vulcan" does not.

[ixion]

2. a couple points here...

1) Vulcan originates in Roman mythology...which is probably more where these yokels are drawing from...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28mythology%29

2) Prior to being an enlightened race, the Vulcans of Star Trek were war-like.

Just sayin'... :hi: