White House Meeting today - Photos (grim faces)

President Bush, center, speaks with the members of media after participating in a meeting, Friday, May 12, 2006. Left to right are Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.





President Bush, right center, speaks with the members of media after participating in a meeting, Friday, May 12, 2006, with the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and former Secretaries of State and Defense in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington.

Oh, the inhumanity sitting at that table. Damn them!


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Edit to add link to these Yahoo photos:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=bush%2C+rice&c=news_photos

Did they let him speak?

that is sure to follow this evil.

To convey some kind of semblance of competence (despite the betrayal and willful dishonesty)?

Who knows.

kind of meeting with former defense secretaries and secretaries of state. Like the dog and pony show he put on a while back.

(hahaha.. jinx'd with tridim.... same curiosity)

I thought he was spending 'more time with his family'? (It says this meeting was today)

He's still on about that damned fish he dreamt he caught.

The subject obviously sent Cheyney to sleep unless he's praying he catches a bigger one.

http://icasualties.org/oif + All The Murders And The Human Rights Violations We Never Hear Of.

I Want To See These War Criminals Tried And Convicted At The Hague In Their Lifetime.


Edit: I Am Too Angry To Type. Sorry.

If so, what is she doing there?

that the meeting included past and present Secretaries of State and Defense - which I guess answers everyone's question as to why Powell is there too.

They all look like a sorry group of miserable sad sacks there.

:shrug:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=bush%2C+rice&c=news_photos

These are new photos from today, not old photos.

sit in on Cabinet meetings???
How does that work?

LAST PIC - Is that Madeline Albreit seated to Powell's Left?

That she and other former Secs of State / Defense would be invited back to the White House soon. At the first meeting Secretary Albright didn't get long to talk, but she made it clear that she pulled no punches in her remarks.

Cheney.

Everybody else is staring straight ahead, and several have their hands folded as if in prayer - - or to keep from pulling their hair out at having to listen to the mangler.

Condi,*, Shooter and Rummy do not have cups in front or them. Are they afraid to drink without their tester?

together a few months back, with ex-secretaries of state and diplomats to make it seem he was reaching out outside his bubble?

I think he had another one today.

and saw Bush got a 0.0002% bounce the last time he did it. They're desperate.

Can anyone identify all (or any more of the participants there). What was their meeting 'supposedly' about?

Do you see Kissinger, Baker and Haig?

Plenty of water glasses on that table...and lots of empty coffee/tea cups (but one). Ulcered stomachs CAN be fussy.

THOSE are some sleepless faces too. Ahhhh....

Cheney. Especially in photo #2. Take a good, hard look. His face is pasty, pale. His hair is snow white. Notice how fat he looks. His head is oddly hunched forward. I'm ready to start an office pool on how long the old buzzard will last.

Even Rumsfailed looks great, compared to that old creep.

Just a bunch of old, fat white men running he show.

champion of liberty. Also note that * seems to be talking and no one appears to be paying any attention to him - in fact, Rice and Powell appear to be studiously ignoring him. Powell looks downright miserable.

...in need of killing.

Given that Iraq was already "fundamentally disarmed" by the early 1990s (Scott Ritter) it's an open question just what Albright thought was worth the deaths of all those children. There was nothing left to achieve by that time but more death.

Then there's her comment to Colin Powell about "what's the point of having the world's most powerful military if you never use it?" (paraphrased from memory).

she apologized for later. I don't think you get anything like that out of the "powerful military" quote. Regardless, one has to look at the overall accomplishments of someone and not focus in on off the cuff or out of context quotes. She is a champion of liberty and she served our country with distinction as sec. of state. The support for sanctions of Iraq can certainly be criticized but let's be real. The muddled mess in Iraq left by George Bush I and Saddam's continued harassment of U.N. weapons inspectors left only hard choices. Innocents certainly got caught in the middle but they always do in war and it is not clear to me that it was mostly the sanctions that were to blame or that the sanctions were not necessary to keep Saddam in check. Certainly I would say that in 1996 it was not clear that Saddam had been fundamentally disarmed. Hindsight is wonderful. Besides, Albright was instrumental in instituting the Oil for Food program in 1996 and expanding it in 1998 so it is not fair to imply that she was callous to humanitarian concerns.

...that was utterly immoral. The U.S. bombed hospitals, water treatment plants, civilian communications facilities, electrical generating capacity, civilian fuel production and storage facilities, and other civilian infrastructure and then imposed sanctions meant to inhibit reconstruction and do the maximum possible damage to the civilian population. Albright didn't just make this single comment-- she worked diligently to implement and maintain the thumbscrews on the Iraqi population. An estimated one million Iraqis died by the time she made that remark. That's genocidal by anyone's standards.

on edit-- note too that she later claimed to be sorry for the remark, but NEVER apologized for all the killing.

events that went back to the Bush I administration. You can't hold Albright responsible for the deaths of innocent Iraqis that may have resulted from sanctions imposed in 1990 when the Clinton administration didn't take office until Jan 1993. The sanctions were imposed by the U.N. in 1990 so even if one accepts the premise that the sanctions killed one million Iraqis (which I don't think anyone can say with any certainty), it would be absurd for Allbright to "apologize for all the killing". Anyway, as I said, when it became clear by 1996 that the sanctions were severely impacting innocents in Iraq, Albright led the effort to institute the oil for food program - which was a success, contrary to all of the flak flying around about it now. Should Albright as U.N. ambassador have pushed for the oil for food program earlier? I think so. She should have also pushed the U.N. to intervene in Rwanda. But don't forget, Albright represented the U.S. at the U.N. and the U.S. President was Bill Clinton. So if anyone should be doing any apologizing it should be Bill Clinton and George Bush I, not their U.N. ambassadors.

This has all been reviewed extensively on DU. Where have you been?

I addressed the Clinton responsibility directly. In fact that was one of my points. No point in continuing this if all you are going to do is react and not read the posts with care.

**Correction** This is a response to Post # 26. :blush:


Second to George Tenet, Powell's prompt submission of an unqualified resignation could have, more than any other act, PREVENTED the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Yes, Colin "What My Lai Massacre?" Powell. I never believed you. :grr:

Albright's a cold broad - "I think it was worth it." (She was referring to all those years of sanctions that is estimated to bring about the death of 500,000 children). But even she has a higher moral compass than Powell or the neo-cons. :thumbsdown: That is, as far as I know, Albright never "jumped on board" the Iraqi Invasion bandwagon?

None the less, this is a room chock full of individuals who, IMO, will have a whole lotta 'spaining to do to Saint Peter at those blessed Pearly Gates. ;)

serious issue, is not gonna quite "cut it". This is the 2nd photo op of Bush, cabinet and former Sec. of States from previous administrations. It's just to make it seem like Bush and Rumsfailed are "listening" to various views on approaching their "Iraq" problem. Wouldn't be surprised if Bush and "Failed" both have cotton in their ears.....just in case anyone suggests anything that makes any sense at all! It's kind of the same "PR Repair" Rumsfailed tried with the Military General Television analysts after the Retired Generals did a Pile on (Clark was not "invited").

"You cannot get substantive discussions in a photo op meeting that goes on for an hour. If these meeting were really going to be substantive, bring in the advisors, brief all these Secretaries of Defense, read them into the issues, pull them up to Camp David for a two-day or three-day weekend and really go over the program. That's what you'd have to do if you really want to get anything out of a meeting, not everybody sitting around a table and making two or three comments." --Wes Clark

In same interview, he spoke of one of the Bush's administration approach, and why it is in err.....

"This administration doesn't have a policy for the region. It may think it has a policy, but it doesn't. It pursues a separate course of action with Iran, a separate course of action with Iraq, won't talk to Iran, won't talk to Syria and really doesn't even listen to the concerns of the our friendly neighbors there in the Gulf. So, what we've got is a series of bilateral conversations or non-conversations with people without putting it all together in a package that can meet people's needs in the region." --Wes Clark

Any working meeting I've been to you needed:

• The agenda
  
• the minutes of the previous meeting
  
• your papers for your contribution to the meeting (if you're not contributing, what are you doing there?)
  

Got the idea to try to pull Colin in for another go around with UN before they bomb Iran...

Not to love the furor is a big disgrace,
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Right to the furor's face. :P


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I could go on.