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...others told TIME that his detachment suddenly found itself in charge of 300 Kurdish fighters from the north, known as peshmerga, who had been fighting Saddam for a dozen years. Joint strategy meetings were anything but regular Army. "A lot of communication goes on over pita bread, chai and rice," said the U.S. officer. "We ate what they...
...National Security Adviser Condi Rice gamely defended the Administration on last Sunday's talkshows, saying "Maybe someone knew in the bowels of the [CIA], but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery." But Knight-Ridder reports that the CIA briefings pooh-poohing the claim had gone all the way to the top, and had been ignored by Vice President Dick Cheney and other advocates of war. The Administration might be in real trouble, of course, if its credibility were being measured by the various statements of the Vice President...
...summits last week also happened because of pressure from Arab leaders. A month after the President's speech, King Abdullah of Jordan and his Foreign Minister, Marwan Muasher, went to Washington to plead with Bush to follow up his words with a plan. Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser, rejected the idea. But in the Oval Office, King Abdullah and Muasher appealed directly to the President. The parties needed a guide, Muasher told Bush, to reach the goals laid out in his speech. "Sounds like a good idea to me," Bush replied. Suddenly the road map was born...
...Freedom Now, the non-profit organization of which Genser is the president, lists the names of such prominent politicians as Massachusetts’ Democratic Senators John Kerry and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, and Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...soon enough, two large lips fill the screen and it’s time for the legendary “late night double feature picture show.” Wedding bells ring in Rocky Horror’s opening scene and the crazies begin to fling rice at other audience members. The girls cover their heads...