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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (493960)	11/17/2003 7:58:11 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I think we call this in the wild west...circling the wagons! "Bremer has grown increasingly frustrated during his six-month tenure—not least because his bosses back in the White House and Defense Department haven’t appreciated how bad the guerrilla attacks have gotten. So he promptly got Condoleezza Rice on the phone. The national-security adviser, taking a rare Sunday afternoon off, was at the Redskins game at FedEx Field. Rice has been given more oversight of the Iraq problem as Bremer has chafed under Pentagon control and the White House has fretted that Donald Rumsfeld’s unforeseen “postwar” war could cost President George W. Bush the 2004 election. Now, talking to Bremer on her cell phone at the stadium, Rice realized America needed a whole new game plan. Bremer was rushed back to Washington—so abruptly, in fact, that he had to cancel an important meeting with one of America’s few allies in this fight, Poland’s prime minister (who was mildly miffed at not being alerted beforehand)."