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(回答先: 写真映像 イラクの暗殺チーム ［イラク情勢ニュース］ 【彼らの肌の色を見よ！ イラク人の肌ではない。彼らは傭兵だ】 投稿者 white 日時 2006 年 9 月 30 日 01:41:11)
ワシントンのベテラン記者、ボブ・ウッドワードはCBSテレビとのインタﾋﾞｭーで、イラクで武装勢力による多国籍軍への攻撃が15分に１回の割で頻発しているという情報を明らかにした。その同じインタビュー番組は実は大半が、ブッシュ政権内部でのラムズフェルド国防長官を除こうとする暗闘について語ったものだった。
ラムズフェルドを除こうとしたのは、ジョン・カード大統領首席補佐官ほかホワイトハウス内の数人とロ−ラ大統領夫人である。
ブッシュ大統領が再選されたときカードは大統領にラムズフェルドを罷免するよう何ヶ月も説得した。だがうまくいかなかった。大統領にはまったく新たな国家機密チームが必要だ、カードは強く感じていたからだ。
またローラ・ブッシュはラムズフェルドが夫を傷つけているのが気がかりだった。ローラは首席補佐官のカードと6週間に一度ミーティングをもっていた。その時にラムズフェルドの問題も語らえた。
今となればファーストレディ・オフィスはこのことを否定するが、カードによればこの動きには有力な同盟者がいた。コリン・パウエル国務長官だ。だがチェイニー副大統領はこれに与しなかった。
結局、ホワイトハウスを去ったのはラムズフェルドではなく、カードの方だった。ラムズフェルドを除こうとする動きは今も続いているが、大統領にはその意志がないという。
詳しくはこちらへ ⇒
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/29/eveningnews/main2053544.shtml
CBS Evening News
Woodward: Laura Wanted Rumsfeld Out
Tells 60 Minutes Mrs. Bush, And Ex-Chief Of Staff Called For Resignation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2006
(CBS) Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward writes in his new book of fierce efforts inside the White House to get rid of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a revelation that has caused a tremendous amount of concern at the White House.
In Mike Wallace’s interview with Woodward, to be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, the reporter also claims that Henry Kissinger is among those advising Mr. Bush.
Woodward writes that several people inside the White House have pushed to oust Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The ranks of those calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation included the president's then Chief of Staff, Andy Card, apparently with the backing of First Lady Laura Bush.
As CBS News correspondent David Martin reports, Woodward tells Wallace that after President Bush was re-elected, Card tried for months to convince the president to fire Rumsfeld.
"It wasn’t working. Card felt very strongly that the president needed a whole new national security team," Woodward tells Wallace.
Laura Bush was also worried that Rumsfeld was hurting her husband, Martin reports. When Andy Card told her that the president seemed happy with Rumsfeld, Woodward says that Mrs. Bush replied, "He's happy with this, but I'm not." Later, she said, "I don’t know why he’s not upset."
"What’s interesting, Andy Card, as White House Chief of Staff, every six weeks set up a one-on-one meeting with Laura Bush. And in the course of these sessions, the problem with Rumsfeld came up, and she voiced her concern about the situation," Woodward tells Wallace.
The First Lady’s office says that's not true, Martin reports, but according to Woodward, Card had at least one other high-level ally: Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell, who himself was leaving the administration, told Card, "If I go, Don should go." But the vice president thought differently.
“Rumsfeld’s his guy. And Cheney confided to an aide that if Rumsfeld goes, next they’ll be after Cheney,” Woodward tells Wallace.
It’s not clear that Rumsfeld knew what Card was up to, but in an interview with Woodward, the Defense Secretary said he told Card that after the election, he would be happy to stay or go, depending on what the president wanted. The president has that he had no intention of changing him.
In the end, it was Card, not Rumsfeld, who left. Rumsfeld hosted a farewell dinner in his honor.
These efforts to get rid of Rumsfeld, apparently continue to this day, CBS News White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. A top Republican strategist told CBS News today that just this week, he heard the president say, "I know the way to keep Americans’ support for the war is to fire Don Rumsfeld. I am not going to do that. It's not going to happen."
Not surprisingly, revelations from the book are causing a tremendous amount of concern at the White House, mostly because what Woodward writes is read and believed, not just in Washington, but all across the country, CBS News White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.
Today, the administration hit back.
“There's a whole lot of stuff here. You know, in a lot of ways, the book's certainly cotton candy. It, kind of, melts on contact. We've read this book before,” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said.
Woodward also says that the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He reveals key intelligence that predicts the insurgency will grow worse next year.
According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. "It’s getting to the point now where there are 8, 900 attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces," says Woodward.
- Re: 本文を一部次のように修正します。 gataro 2006/9/30 10:14:22
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