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That's why, last Monday morning, Bush entered a secure room at the Pentagon for a briefing by Major General Del Dailey, commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, which runs the military's most secretive units. The special forces--including the 800-strong Delta Force, Navy SEALS, and Army and Air Force commandos--are likely to be central to the first phase of the war. Special forces always have a hard time getting the attention of the brass leading conventional forces--they operated under very restrictive rules during the Gulf War--and they have had their setbacks. A Delta...
George H.W. Bush, no. 41, as he is known in the family, put in a call to the White House late Thursday after his son George W. Bush, No. 43, had finished his war speech to the joint session of Congress. "He and Laura were alone in that big house," the former President recalled. "George was putting out the dogs...
...Years Ago in Time This is not the first time DICK CHENEY andCOLIN POWELL have had to prepare for war together in a Bush White House. Cheney, then Defense Secretary, and Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spent months readying forces to liberate Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion...
Originally, a joint activity seemed like a good idea in order to help people understand one another. Things have changed...
...front of the television in the Canaday common room on Sept. 20, I had to ask myself, “Am I unpatriotic?” President George W. Bush was delivering what many have called an inspiring speech to a joint session of Congress. After it was over, pundits compared it to the epochal performance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson executive, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. For me, however, it felt shallow...