Bush to Host Unusual Discussion on Iraq

[ECH1969]

In an unusual move, the White House has invited all living secretaries of defense and state to the White House on Thursday for a discussion with President Bush of Iraq policy.

http://www.drudgereport.com/
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How many past Secretaries of Defense and State are still alive?

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I hope they ream him out in spades.

[Chomp]

2. McNamara

[FreedomAngel82]

3. He must be up to something

[babylonsister]

4. Ah, to be a fly on the wall... nt

[madokie]

5. It won't matter chimp will be all glassy eyed and not making any sense

still building that gallows.

[IndyOp]

6. Living Secretaries of State and Defense... Over 30?

Current: Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice

Clinton:

Secretaries of State
Warren M. Christopher
Madeleine Albright

Secretaries of Defense
Les Aspin
William J. Perry
William S. Cohen


George H.W Bush:

Secretary of State
James A. Baker, III
Lawrence S. Eagleburger

Secretary of Defense
Richard B. Cheney


Reagan:

Secretaries of State
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
George P. Shultz

Secretaries of Defense
Caspar W. Weinberger
Frank C. Carlucci


Carter:

Secretary of State
Cyrus R. Vance
Edmund S. Muskie

Secretary of Defense
Harold Brown


Ford:

Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger

Secretary of Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Donald H. Rumsfeld


Nixon:

Secretary of State
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger

Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Elliot L. Richardson
James R. Schlesinger


Johnson:
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk

Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Clark M. Clifford


Kennedy:
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk

Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara

[kliljedahl]

7. The link on his page goes nowhere

??????



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[babylonsister]

8. Scroll down, on the left, but

it's developing.:eyes: < - - Drudge: ya gotta wonder...

[kliljedahl]

12. I saw the link & clicked it, took me back to the home page

It was hard enough for me to have one open




Keith’s Barbeque Central

[merwin]

9. And in other news, all past Secretaries of Defense and State found dead.

:evilgrin:

[Mutley]

10. He's longing for the days not so long ago when Iraq was his

biggest problem. Who knew we'd see the day when Bush is trying to divert attention to the war?

[the_spectator]

16. We have a winner.

Bush has a lot of problems, so he's trying to divert attention TO the war, because he thinks that it may be the only area in which he did anything bold (assuming you don't count cutting taxes as bold.)

And it seems that many Democrats, at least around here, WANT to come to grips with Bush at exactly that place on the political battlefield where he wants us to. That very place where it comes naturally for Bush and his people to talk about Freedom and Shining Cities on Hills. The very place where a lot of us end up talking about the evil imperialist United States, about how Iraq is some historically wacked-out society where democracy can't work, and about how FAILURE must be and is a 100% epistomological certainty. Hmmm. Wonder how all this will play in Peoria...

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred...

[librechik]

11. he wants validation

you know how he always says "everybody thought Saddam ______?"

Maybe he wants to get them on the record in support of his crazy scheme so he can cudgel the public with all these great authority figures, all politely agreeing with him, no doubt.

Or maybe he wants tactical help to figure out how to defeat evil.

[librechik]

13. then again, remember when Saddam invited all the ministers

to a big meeting and shot a bunch of them?

Should Madeline Alibright be worried?

[carolinalady]

14. Desperation if he is gonna let Poppy's boy chew at him. n/t

[TheGunslinger]

15. More in the way of finding a way to claim victory and start the pullout

of troops in order to help bolster the GOP in the '06 election.

[madokie]

17. He's just gonna take Murtha advice, move the troop to the peripheral

Iran and Syria