Powell, Armitage Meet with Bush* at His Ranch

[kskiska]

President Bush is discussing trouble spots around the globe with senior members of his national security team in meetings this week.

Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, arrived in the blazing heat of central Texas Tuesday afternoon for dinner with the president. They were meeting again with the president Wednesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. The Middle East and North Korea were expected to be at the top of the agenda.

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National security adviser Condoleezza Rice flew to Texas with Bush when he began a monthlong vacation Saturday.

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The meetings with Powell and Armitage had nothing to do with their possible futures in the Bush administration, officials said. Bush jogged with about 30 military personnel, mostly Marines, on his ranch at midday Tuesday. They waited until early afternoon to allow temperatures to reach their forecast high of 102 degrees.

That allowed the Marines to earn a coveted spot in Bush's "100-degree club."

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[madrchsod]

1. ok you`re a 57 yr

old man jogging in 100 degree weather..why? prove your manhood? or just to prove you`re an idiot....

[grasswire]

2. well he ain't....

...an Englishman, so he must be a mad dog.

[phgnome]

3. Has this man nothing better to do

like run a country, get your country out of a deep recession...for g*df*cking sakes! Instead of thinking of way to repair the GDP, he's finding his ways of measuring the sweat off his balls in 102 degreee weather (it almost seems cruel to the marines that are forced to run with him in such insanely hot conditions).

We ought to publicly encourage him to do this more -- maybe he'll die from heat stroke.

[Poiuyt]

6. Running in Purgatory

Maybe he'll make Powell and Armitage run with him in the heat.

[ewagner]

4. re: Powell and Armitage

Either they will be taken to the "woodshed".

OR

told very subtly that this is what happens to people who don't toe the line........there is a lot of speculation that the stories were leaked from the Neocons as a warning to both of them to shape up or ship out.

My guess is the latter.

[SummerGrace]

5. Or maybe it was a message from Powell

telling W to let him do his job or he will resign.

[umcwb]

7. Locking - Dupe

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