translate English to French: The problem is that we are left with the uncomfortable impression that there are two strands of rhetoric on this issue; it is as though within the Bush Administration there were the Rice strand and the Cheney strand.
Le problème est que nous avons la désagréable impression qu’il y a deux types de discours sur cette question; c’est comme si au sein de l’administration Bush il y avait le discours de Rice et celui de Cheney.