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	Pottery Barn rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pottery Barn rule is American political jargon referring to a "you break it, you own it" policy of a retail store that holds a customer responsible for damage done to displayed merchandise.
		The policy was erroneously attributed to Pottery Barn, a chain of home furnishing stores in the United States.
		The source of the term "Pottery Barn rule" is unknown, but it may not have originated with the reference in Woodward's book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pottery_Barn_rule (476 words)

	Business: Rule that isn't its rule upsets Pottery Barn
		Rule that isn't its rule upsets Pottery Barn
		Absolutely not, say the folks at Pottery Barn, who are miffed by a metaphor attributed to Secretary of State Colin Powell in a new book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.
		Pottery Barn has more than 170 stores selling home furnishings, including two in Tampa.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/04/20/Business/Rule_that_isn_t_its_r.shtml (302 words)

	The Queen of All Evil: Oh And By The Way
		Colin Powell was the first to use the "Pottery Barn" analogy (along with Richard Armitage according to Bob Woodward, _Plan of Attack_) Last time I checked, Powell is not only NOT a Democrat flack, but is in fact one of the Bush's most important cabinet members.
		It's not a wonderful analogy, and in fact is not Pottery Barn's policy (see http://inversionmagazine.com/Other/PottBarn.htm) but I find it remarkable that people would be puzzled by Kerry's obvious reference to something that was given saturation coverage for at least a month.
		The problem is that the "Pottery Barn" (actually, a fairly general retail rule, not often applied in reality) is "You break it, you buy it", not "You break it, you fix it" - ie, the somneloquent Kerry misspoke himself in a frankly Bushian manner.
	www.qoae.net /archives/000376.html (1144 words)

	Internal Monologue: Pottery Barn vs. Bull in the China Shop
		Digby links to a June 6 cable sent by the American Embassy and signed by Khalizad to the American Secretary of State outlining the dire conditions under which their employees in Iraq have to work.
		Instead of the “Pottery Barn Rule”, I want to present the “Bull in the China Shop Rule”: If there’s a bull in the china shop breaking stuff, you don’t stomp your foot indignantly and demand that the bull glue the broken stuff back together.
		The US is neither fighting nor governing according to the rule of law, nor now setting the example with its own diplomatic corps, which was one of key 'mission[s] of presence' during the Cold War.
	zdrake.blogspot.com /2006/06/pottery-barn-vs-bull-in-china-shop.html (1194 words)

	Inversion Other :: An open letter to Pottery Barn
		As you may be aware, The Pottery Barn is mentioned in Bob Woodward's new book, Plan of Attack.
		Before I rush to judgment on the Pottery Barn and their consumer values, or the lack thereof, I wanted to clarify things with your headquarters.
		We are flattered that when Secretary Powell was thinking of national retailers, Pottery Barn was top of mind however, Pottery Barn does not have a policy of "you break it, you own it" requiring customers to pay for products that are accidentally broken in our retail stores.
	inversionmagazine.com /Other/PottBarn.htm (717 words)

	Pottery
		Handcrafted pottery mugs, bowls, and dinnerware in many colors, textures and themes from over 40 US clay artists.
		Pottery courses are run for all levels of experience.
		Talavera is a type of majolica earthenware, a white and glazed type of ceramic pottery.
	www.pottery-show.com (285 words)

	Pottery Barn Rule
		Bob Woodward's new book Plan of Attack claims that Colin Powell warned President Bush that if he sent troops to Iraq, "you're going to be owning this place." That was based on what Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage called the Pottery Barn Rule of "you break it, you own it".
		Pottery Barn has taken offense with the analogy and claims that no such rule exists in their stores.
		That may be true for a large chain like Pottery Barn but when I was a kid I recall going to stores with signs that said that.
	www.bobcongdon.net /blog/2004/04/pottery-barn-rule.html (141 words)

	America must let Iraq govern itself \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		You do not need Pottery Barn to tell you this is a policy that neither large corporations nor superpowers can enforce.
		As difficult and flawed as it may turn out to be, the election of an Iraqi constitutional assembly is needed, on schedule, to mark a decisive turning point away from U.S. occupation – from "owning" Iraq, as Colin Powell reportedly used the phrase to Bush before the 2003 invasion.
		The so-called Pottery Barn rule is one of several self-defeating myths that have grown up around Iraq and need to be dispelled by the Jan. 30 vote.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050114/news_lz1e14hoaglan.html (784 words)

	Tabsir » Gone to Pottery Barn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Now encoded in mediaspeak as the “Pottery Barn rule,” the label sticks even though the commercial Pottery Barn does not have such a rule.
		The fact that the situation in Iraq is “grave and deteriorating,” as the Iraq Study Group bluntly states, shows that the current war and occupation have indeed gone to pot.
		Many of these entrepreneurial oases were in old wooden sheds or barns, sometimes so tightly packed with heirlooms that you could hardly move through an aisle.
	www.tabsir.net /?p=412 (702 words)

	Naomi Klein: Yes, you must pull out - but also pay for the damage \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		It's the so-called Pottery Barn rule: "You break it, you own it." Pottery Barn, a chain of stores that sells upmarket home furnishings in shopping malls across America, apparently has an in-store policy that if you shatter anything while shopping, you have to pay for it, because "you own it".
		The failure to develop a credible platform beyond "troops out" may be one reason the antiwar movement remains stalled, even as opposition to the war deepens.
		Because the Pottery Barn rulers do have a point: breaking a country should have consequences for the breakers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1379996,00.html (1216 words)

	The Crafts Report: Crafts Law, April 2005
		Pottery Barn, which is owned by Williams-Sonoma, has no such rule, nor do any of its 170-plus home furnishings stores have signs warning potential customers to be careful or that they would be responsible for damage they cause.
		Signs of that sort would “put off customers, who tend to be pretty careful anyway,” according to a spokeswoman for the company, but the main reason neither Pottery Barn nor Williams-Sonoma has such a rule is that it would not have the backing of law.
		The “Pottery Barn Rule” needn’t exist in fact but just in a customer’s guilty conscience.
	www.craftsreport.com /april05/break_not_buy.html (740 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - Bush's 'Pottery Barn' legacy
		The application of the Pottery Barn rule goes far beyond merely breaking a common sense rule or well-established policy.
		To fully understand the pathology of the Pottery Barn disorder lets consider how it was applied in Iraq and in the more recent handling of Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
		Inevitably the fourth stage of the Pottery Barn disorder arrives: the Administration systematically impugns the character of anyone who suggests that their policy is broken.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2006072207.html (727 words)

	Simply Appalling: The Pottery Barn Rule revisited
		In September I referred to the mythic Pottery Barn rule attributed to NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
		In his book Plan of Attack Bob Woodward claimed that Colin Powell had warned Bush of this "rule" as plans were being made for the invasion of Iraq.
		In my own writing I presented the rule in a form I thought was the most sensible construction: "You break it, you pay for it."1 But that is not what Friedman actually said.
	simplyappalling.blogspot.com /2006/04/pottery-barn-rule-revisited.html (1434 words)

	The LongBow Papers
		Powell privately called the "you break it, you own it" rule of military action, according to a new book.
		The "you break it, you own it" principle he cited in delivering those warnings was privately known to Mr.
		Of all the predictions and assertions about invading Iraq before the fact, perhaps Colin Powell's Pottery Barn Rule warnings were the most accurate.
	www.josephbosco.com /2004/04/pottery-barn-rule.html (502 words)

	All the President's Courtiers - Council on Foreign Relations
		Prince Cheney and the Duc de Rumsfeld are the chieftains of the war party; Grand Marshal Powell takes every opportunity to warn the king that it is easier to start a war than to build a stable peace.
		"It is the Pottery Barn rule," warns the Marshal.
		Powell went to work on the diplomatic track; Rumsfeld developed the plans for war and for the postwar period when the Pottery Barn rule would apply.
	www.cfr.org /publication/7011/all_the_presidents_courtiers.html (1060 words)

	KRACK-POT KERRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The "Pottery Barn rule" is you break it, you own it.
		I googled the rule, and Pottery Barn says their is no such rule.
		Ketchupman's way to fix broken pottery is to (1) ask the UN for permission to fix it, (2) gather together all his so-called political supporters for permission to fix the pottery, and (3) tell everyone it can be fixed then do a 180 and tell everyone it can't be fixed.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1232732/posts (950 words)

	Mything the Point of "Freedom isn't Free" \| TPMCafe
		When I'm done, the "Pottery Barn Rule" is going to have a whole new meaning for you...
		This means we have to rewrite the Pottery Barn Rule one more time.
		You aren't just breaking a cup, you are going on a road trip to break a cup in every Pottery Barn in America, and you are responsible for paying all your travel expenses.
	houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com /node/29030 (1330 words)

	Pottery Glaze - Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
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	home.tiscali.de /onlineinfo/pottery-glaze.html (279 words)

	They Break It – We Buy It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		They Break It – We Buy It They Break It – We Buy It Even before there was a Pottery Barn, there was “The Pottery Barn Rule” – you break it, you buy it.
		It epitomizes personal responsibility by forcing a careless person to pay for the consequences of his or her carelessness.
		In short, it’s just the sort of rule you would think the tort reform lobby would support.
	agonist.org /node/35233/print (657 words)

	The Blog \| Bob Burnett: Bush's "Pottery Barn" Legacy \| The Huffington Post
		But there's no need to wait until 2007, for we already know that Dubya's legacy will be the Pottery Barn rule.
		The supposed pottery barn rule "you break it, you OWN it".
		I would suggest a FIFTH stage of the Pottery Barn Disorder: the culprit is held accountable and forced to pay for his sins, regardless of whether he or she admits to fault.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /bob-burnett/bushs-pottery-barn-leg_b_25440.html (2595 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - Welcome to Pottery Barn!
		When Karl Rove has lost Tim, he had better start preparing for the end of Republican rule in Washington - that is, if he's not too preoccupied with all the trouble surrounding his treasonous outing of Valerie Plame as CIA nonofficial cover operative.
		Strangely, there was little talk of Cindy Sheehan's continuing vigil in Crawford, Texas, where she waits to speak about her late son who died in Iraq with the former Texas governor, who had to flee briefly to Idaho to take a vacation from his vacation.
		Biden reminded viewers that a year and a half ago on This Week that he had warned that this administration's actions of removing Saddam may result in a nation that is ruled by Islamic law.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2005083012.html (2001 words)

	There are a few more shop rules the President needs to know - OpinionRichardGlover - www.smh.com.au
		There's also deep disquiet that the Pottery Barn rules have been so seriously misrepresented.
		While they were at it, they could also have checked their "upsetting" facts on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and the enthusiasm of the Iraq's Shiite majority for an invasion.
		We didn't understand he was working within the restrictions of the Kmart fitting room rule: "Limit of three items." And suddenly it's clear why there are so many Chalabi relatives involved in the US's puppet government in Iraq.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/04/23/1082616326327.html?from=storyrhs (900 words)

	Beltway establishment blames the Pottery Barn \| CorrenteWire
		But my Pottery Barn rule was wrong, because Iraq was already pretty broken before we got there.
		And so was the entire Beltway 500, since Friedman’s “Pottery Barn” meme went through like grass through a goose.
		We have a ruling class that is as unserious, as frivolous, as arrogant, and as ignorant as the Czar’s advisors in the last days of the Romanovs, or the clowns round Kaiser Wilhelm before World War I. The Beltway 500: Always wrong about everything.
	www.correntewire.com /beltway_establishment_blames_the_pottery_barn (935 words)

	Would It Make Sense to Just Leave Iraq?
		One of the more articulate expressions of that view is an article by Naomi Klein in the Jan. 10 issue of The Nation magazine.
		Her point of departure is the so-called Pottery Barn rule invoked by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his prewar advice to President Bush: “You break it, you own it.”
		Our walking away, with or without a declaration of victory, would be a death sentence to those Iraqis who worked with us in furtherance of our announced mission to deliver democracy to Iraq.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0103-27.htm (847 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. races to bring stability while fragile consensus lasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Sunnis, a 20% minority in Iraq, were Saddam Hussein's ruling elite.
		And other countries, still wanting to punish the United States and Britain for rushing to war, remain reluctant to provide substantial support.
		Rice's predecessor, Colin Powell, had a "Pottery Barn" rule: You break it, you own it.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-16-our-view_x.htm (628 words)

	Pottery Barn Foreign Policy - The Tech
		Former Secretary of State Colin Powell stated this dilemma as the “Pottery Barn Rule”: You break it, you buy it.
		Or perhaps the ruling Sciri party (Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution In Iraq), which was founded in the intellectual heritage of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.
		Iran may exert its influence more directly, creating another state ruled by Sharia.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V126/N16/Levinger16.html (927 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Edelstein and Krebs \| It's Time to Get Out of Iraq
		Secretary of State Colin Powell was right to cite the Pottery Barn rule - you break it, you bought it - in cautioning President Bush about the implications of invading Iraq.
		We agree that the United States has an ethical responsibility to help rebuild the shattered vessel that was Iraq.
		But all rules are meant to be broken - not lightly, but only after careful consideration.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/010405F.shtml (2120 words)

	David Brooks' Addendum to the Pottery Barn Rule \| TPMCafe
		David Brooks' Addendum to the Pottery Barn Rule
		David Brooks' Addendum to the Pottery Barn Rule
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	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/11/25/141029/24 (198 words)

	Please note the change of address! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This has apparently upset the good folks at Pottery Barn.
		Yesterday, Pottery Barn's Oshirak complained bitterly: "This is certainly not our policy in any of our 174 Pottery Barn retail outlets in North America.
		Yes, this is surely the worst thing about the U.S. Iraq policy; that Pottery Barn is upset.
	www.danrosenbaum.com /ote (1534 words)

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