Word: condoleezza
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...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...
...talking up the need for greater transatlantic cooperation. Washington's goal: to allay European fears that victory in Iraq will tempt the U.S. to run roughshod over world opinion. "It isn't the power of the U.S. that needs to be checked," cooed Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, "It's the power of the U.S. that needs to work cooperatively with others who share the same values to achieve common goals." Not all Europeans were buying that: the Continent remains deeply divided on how to deal with the U.S. While British Prime Minister Tony Blair resolutely backs Bush...
...Condoleezza Rice and other members of the administration have affirmed that [CDS 189] remains the governing document of the administration,” he says. “What we have been working on is trying to have that affirmation sent down through the chain of command from the administration...
Just days after U.S. troops entered Baghdad, the Bush Administration was already contemplating a new scrape. A group of the President's top foreign-policy advisers--including Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell--gathered in the White House to discuss the road ahead. Only half the meeting was devoted to developments in Iraq. The rest of the session was spent debating how to tackle a fresh target: Syria...
That is not happening now. Condoleezza Rice seems to have disappeared. There are two theories about this. Some say she's been overwhelmed by the more senior Administration titans; others say she has come to favor the hawkish Cheney-Rumsfeld side. But there is a more likely possibility: Rice is simply doing her job, reflecting the style and wishes of the President. And that style, as we have seen over the past weeks, is increasingly simple in a world--and a war--that seems increasingly complex...