The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Wednesday, August 21, 2002  

A HIGH-LEVEL HUDDLE
Touch Football, Not Iraq

President George Bush today met with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers.

Speculation that the meeting was called to discuss a possible attack on Iraq apparently was seriously misguided.

Aides took pains to portray the meeting “as simply a high-level huddle on the future needs of the military, with no space on the agenda for war planning,” according to a report from MSNBC.com.

“I know there’s this intense speculation, a churning, a frenzy, . . . but the subject didn’t come up,” Bush said.

It didn’t?

Not at all?

Why not?

How stupid do these people think we are?

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