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...with a complaint: Donald Rumsfeld wouldn't return her calls. At the time, Rumsfeld was the Administration's swaggering alpha male, a global celebrity whom even Bush called a "matinee idol"; Rice was the overwhelmed National Security Adviser, struggling to make herself heard above the din of colliding war-cabinet egos. "I know you won't talk to Condi," Bush told Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward's book State of Denial. "But you've got to talk...
...Robert Gates joins the Bush cabinet as the replacement for outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he can be expected to urge President Bush to talk to the leaders of Iran - an option Bush has thus far avoided. Gates made his own views on Iran policy known in mid-2004, when he joined Zbigniew Brzezinski - President Carter's National Security Advisor - in chairing a task force of scholars who issued a report titled "Iran: Time for a New Approach...
...what is in America's national security interest now and in light of our commitments that we now have in the Middle East and Southwest Asia." And his own conclusion was that U.S. interests required engaging with Iran - a view that has not been dominant within the Bush cabinet until...
...President's public schedule for Wednesday is blank so far, but he has a Cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday. When he meets the cameras, his message is likely to include similar points. He'll be a uniter, his aides say, if Democrats will reciprocate...
...system. And attempts to topple the current government - led by pro-U.S. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora - are hardly new or secret. Ever since the end of this summer's war between Israel and Hizballah, both Lebanon's opposition and leaders of Hizballah have been demanding that Siniora's cabinet be replaced by a government of "national unity." The power struggle has as much to do with internal Lebanese politics as it does with the regional confrontation between the United States and it's rivals Iran and Syria...