Bush Appoints Rice To Stabilize Iraq…Again

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and the comment was "Her first task, I assume, will be to clean up the mess the Iraq stabilization group left".

http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Iraq
Bush Appoints Rice To Stabilize Iraq…Again

In October 2003, President Bush gave Condoleezza Rice the authority to manage postwar Iraq. USA Today, 10/6/03:........


Rice will head the Iraq Stabilization Group, which will have coordinating committees on counterterrorism, economic development, political affairs and media messages.

It didn’t work out so well. Washington Post, 5/18/04:.........


Today, it was deja vu all over again:

The White House formally gave Condoleezza Rice authority on Wednesday to take the lead in planning and reconstruction efforts in conflict areas such as Iraq.