PITY THE LEFT:

Ex-Adviser Reportedly Hurt Embassy Aide: Kuwait Airport Incident Disputed (Glenn Kessler and Al Kamen, November 12, 2004, Washington Post)

Robert D. Blackwill, who resigned last week as the White House's top official on Iraq policy, was recently scolded by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell told her that Blackwill appeared to have verbally abused and physically hurt a female embassy staffer during a visit to Kuwait in September, administration officials said.

The incident took place as Blackwill was rushing to return home after a visit to Baghdad to join a campaign swing planned by President Bush. As six officials describe the incident, he arrived at the Air France counter at the Kuwait airport and learned he was not on the flight manifest. Blackwill then turned in fury to an embassy secretary who had accompanied him to the airport and demanded that he be given a seat on the flight, grabbing her arm at one point, the officials said.

Powell found out about the incident and informed Rice. He then had staff members gather facts and materials to present to Rice, including photographs of the woman's arm, a State Department official said.

Bad enough that when they went after Halliburton they hit the State Department, now the Left, which was claiming this resignation was a sign we were losing in Iraq, is stuck with this guy?

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2004 1:06 PM