Bush's Bipartisan Photo-Op: Just 5-10 Minutes For Policy Heavyweights To Give Iraq Advice...

NY Times   |  David E. Sanger   |   January 6, 2006 02:43 PM


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Colin L. Powell said nothing - a silence that spoke volumes to many in the White House on Thursday morning.

His predecessor, Madeleine K. Albright, a bit stirred up after hearing an exceedingly upbeat 40-minute briefing to 13 former secretaries of state and defense about how well things are going in Iraq, asked President Bush whether, with the war "taking up all the energy" of his foreign policy team, he had let the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea spin out of control and allowed Latin America and China policy suffer by neglect.

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