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...have suffered an internal setback with the postponement of a scheduled roll-out of evidence - reportedly because top Administration officials judged that evidence to be insufficiently solid. The fact that qualms about the case against Iraq in Iran were reportedly expressed by Secretary Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggests there may be some division in the Administration over just how far to press the offensive against Iran. (As well there ought to be, since U.S. credibility may not yet have recovered from the debacle of the prewar "evidence" on which it acted against Iraq...
...Democrats are worried that this might happen again, he said, "There is a case history out there that justifies that concern." He closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair and recalled the intense, all-day negotiations last autumn in which he was outmaneuvered by National Security Adviser Steven Hadley. "The full flavor of what we had set out to do, it was by no means all lost, but ..." and his voice trailed off. The political stakes are much higher this time. And as Warner has learned, to make a real mark on Capitol Hill, it's not enough...
...region, this reaction comes as no surprise. Just before his defenestration, former Secretary of Defense Donald R. Rumsfeld commented in a recently leaked memo that his current plan of action for Iraq cannot hope to stabilize the region. Another leak revealed a second memo written by Stephen J. Hadley, Bush’s national security advisor, which questions the competence of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Staying the course, the ISG report scathingly reveals, is no longer an option. America cannot hope to sustain a war that amounts to $2 billion a day, especially when scant progress is being...
...Hadley-run hunt for a new military and diplomatic approach has earned mediocre marks from inside and outside the White House. Wider-ranging alternatives were not explored in any depth, said several foreign policy experts who met with Hadley in December, and talks with Iran and Syria were ruled out of the question. A dismayed Administration official who has generally been an optimist about Iraq described the process as chaotic. "None of this," he predicted of the surge and its coming rollout, "is going to work...
...This is the British library," says Fanah, indicating a shot-up shell of gray rubble splashed with RPG marks and heavy-caliber bullet holes. "I had a library card and I used to come here and read my novels. Roots - that really affected me. And James Hadley Chase. He writes about violence. With romance in between. I used to read him all book in seven or eight hours...