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...salvaging a diplomatic train wreck, however, Blackwill, 64, may be the best there is. So a year ago, when the Bush Administration realized how much trouble it faced in postwar Iraq, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice reached out to Blackwill. Administration officials say his mission was to clean up Iraq, preferably before U.S. elections this November. Largely hidden from view, Blackwill has been the White House's eyes and ears in Iraq ever since, taking a backseat in public to proconsul Paul Bremer while wielding influence behind the scenes...
Though he shuns the spotlight, Blackwill makes his presence felt. He was Rice's boss in the first Bush Administration, working on Russia policy under then National Security Adviser Scowcroft. "We used to argue frequently," says Scowcroft, "and he'd leave the office saying 'Remember, you don't pay me to agree with you. You pay me for my opinions.'" In 2000 Rice brought Blackwill into the team of "Vulcans," who tutored President George W. Bush on foreign and national-security policy during the campaign. But though the rest of that team ended up with coveted jobs, Blackwill...
...ambassador's forceful style that appealed to the White House after the chaotic start of the occupation of Iraq. Recruited by Rice in May 2003, Blackwill left India on a Friday, attended his eldest daughter's wedding in Boston the next day, then flew to Washington and was at work on Monday. Among his first tasks was brushing back Pentagon hawks to secure White House control over running the occupation. By early 2003, when Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's favored exile, tried to block the return to Baghdad of Brahimi, Blackwill cornered Chalabi in a room...
...prepare the country for elections, currently scheduled for early 2005. By then, though, he hopes to have moved on. A senior Republican close to him says Blackwill's ambition is "boundless," and some Administration insiders say he could become National Security Adviser if Bush wins re-election and Rice decides to leave her post. But all of that may hinge on whether Blackwill can get Iraq safely through November...
...more than a week. After a phone call with Allawi from Istanbul, Turkey-where Bush is attending a summit of NATO leaders-Bush said it was okay to go forward the next morning if the security situation permitted. After phone calls early this morning from National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer in Iraq to make sure that the coast was clear, the decision was made to push forward. And after Bremer handed a blue document binder to Allawi in a small ceremony deep in the fortified Green Zone, it became official that Iraq...