Rice-led "Iraq Stabilization Group" stabilized Jack SQUAT, faded away

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/bush_rice_dc

Lines of inquiry include her role in the decision making before the Iraq war as well as in what many consider the botched reconstruction of Iraq.

In 2003, Bush put Rice in charge of the Iraq Stabilization Group to coordinate counterterrorism, economic development, political affairs and media messages, but the group seems to have faded away.

Other questions include U.S. relations with Russia, her primary area of expertise; why as national security adviser she allowed damaging internal policy disputes over North Korea, China-Taiwan and Iraq to fester; and how the United States can use public diplomacy to better combat anti-American attitudes.



http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Iraq_Stabilization_Group

The New York Times on October 5, 2003 (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/international/06PREX.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=), announced that "The White House has ordered a major reorganization of American efforts to quell violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and to speed the reconstruction of both countries, according to senior administration officials." The new effort includes the creation of an 'Iraq Stabilization Group', which will be run by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice. The decision to create the new group, five months after Mr. Bush declared the end of active combat in Iraq, appears part of an effort to assert more direct White House control over how Washington coordinates its efforts to fight terrorism, develop political structures and encourage economic development in the two countries....

"The creation of the stabilization group appears to give more direct control to Ms. Rice, one of the president's closest confidantes, who signed the memorandum announcing it. For the first two and a half years of Mr. Bush's presidency, Ms. Rice often seemed hesitant to take a more active role, eschewing the kind of hands-on approach for which Henry A. Kissinger and other national security advisers were known, and viewing her job chiefly as providing quiet advice to Mr. Bush.

According to Rice, the NSC "is made up of top advisers to the president who meet three times a week in the Situation Room. They have often seemed unable to coordinate efforts on the main issues relating to the occupation of Iraq. 'The Pentagon remains the lead agency, and the structure has been set up explicitly to provide assistance to the Defense Department'" and the Coalition Provisional Authority.

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1. Noo! Like the yellow cake, traditional hijackings?

Give that woman a promotion!