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WHEN HE UNVEILS HIS PLAN, BUSH IS likely to wrap the surge inside a handful of other proposals. There is a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative in the works for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's team and the outlines of an upgraded Iraqi jobs and infrastructure proposal on the table. Plus, Bush has indicated that he favors the expansion in the armed forces that both the Army and Marine Corps chiefs want. Most of those ideas will meet with broad support in Congress and at the Pentagon, and that's part of the design here: it will be harder...
...Administration. As the nation faces growing concern about its Iraq policy and the need for clear intelligence to counter terrorist threats, Director of Intelligence John Negroponte will resign, U.S. officials have confirmed, to take an appointment as the No. 2 official at the State Dept and deputy to Condoleezza Rice...
...Negroponte is expected to bring much-needed help and Iraq expertise to Rice at the State Dept, where she has functioned without a deputy and other key aides for several months. Negroponte was ambassador to Baghdad in 2004 and 2005 and, before that, U.S. representative at the United Nations. He has long been associated with America's Iraq policy; as an experienced diplomat but also a hardliner, he was a frequent briefer for President Bush. "Secretary Rice has now said she wants to focus on Arab-Israel peace talks, and other pressing matters which she would not be able...
...Negroponte's predecessor in the No. 2 job at State was Robert Zoellick, who stepped down in July to accept a position with Goldman Sachs, the New York-based investment banking firm. Rice reportedly approached several candidates to replace him over a period of months, without finding anyone willing to step into the difficult post...
...Among those to who declined the job, according to knowledgeable officials, was Robert Gates, to whom Rice offered the job while he was still president of Texas A&M. Gates, for whom Rice had once worked at the NSC, later accepted the job of President Bush's new Defense Secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld...