CNN/AP: Bush confers with aides on mounting overseas challenges

Bush confers with aides on mounting overseas challenges
Mideast truce, Iraq, Iran and North Korea top list
Monday, August 14, 2006


President Bush, carrying Barney and Miss Beazley, returns to Washington from Crawford, Texas, Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush was huddling with top diplomats and military advisers Monday on the inaugural day of a Mideast truce, with a list of challenges spreading far beyond the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.

While that deadly battle has dominated headlines and the attention of the administration's diplomatic team, sectarian violence has surged in Iraq and created what some consider the greatest threat to stability there since Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled three years ago.

Nearly 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are being sent into Baghdad to curb the surge.

Meanwhile, efforts to get North Korea and Iran to restrict their nuclear ambitions remained stalled....

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The sessions are the first of several that Bush plans this week with key advisers. Tuesday, he was to meet with his homeland security team at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia. Friday, he scheduled a summit with economic advisers at (Camp David)....Bush usually holds the meetings each August at his ranch near Crawford, Texas. But with the pressing issues abroad and his party at risk of losing control of Congress in the November elections, Bush limited his time away from the White House this summer.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/14/bush.ap/index.html

Only two weeks of vacation this summer? At Camp David Friday? Whoa. I a starting to like this President now. :sarcasm:

A delightful visual signal. Attempting to be the repuke FDR.

Jeebus these guys are transparent.

all 2000 of them, and all the other Iraq bullshit, Bush is in over his head.

all the goings-on in the world!! I appear too stupid without cue cards.