On Rumsfeld: "Of COURSE they're being considered..."

of COURSE, Hadley would say they're being considered... what the hell ELSE would he say...?

President Bush is open to some of the major changes in Iraq policy that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested in a classified memo days before he resigned, the White House's national security adviser said Sunday.

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"Of course they're being considered," Bush adviser Stephen Hadley said.

but, guess what...? "cut and run" is still part of the lexicon, and that, by itself, speaks volumes...

"The president really wanted us to open the aperture, consider all ideas, and it was input by Secretary Rumsfeld, helpful input into that process," he said.

As for the commission's upcoming report, Hadley said Bush wants to know what congressional leaders think of the recommendations. "He'll want to hear more what the Iraqi government will want to do. All of these things he will put together in the way forward on Iraq."

Hadley said the administration will not use the widely anticipated bipartisan report as political cover for withdrawing of U.S. troops. He said that is why Bush dismissed the idea of a "graceful exit" from Iraq after reports about the panel's conclusions began to emerge.

"The president felt he needed to stop that right there," Hadley said. "That isn't graceful withdraw. That's cut and run. And as the president has said, cut and run is not his cup of tea."

what a bunch of filthy hogwash... if past is prelude, bush and his criminal cronies are only going through the motions, making it LOOK like they're open to input, when, after six years, they have been open to NO input... they have zero credibility on being receptive to reasonable input - none, zip, nada... for this administration, words mean NOTHING, and anybody who thinks otherwise is seriously deluded... the only thing that's worth watching with this gang is concrete action, but, of that, so far, we have NOTHING... plenty of words, plenty of foreplay, but no concrete action... whatever the action steps that are taken, if any, will determine whether the words mean anything or not... my bet, based on the track record, is they will amount to nothing, and the press and the american people will, once again, have spent thousands of hours, mega-gallons of printers ink, and untold terabytes of bandwidth, chasing down the red herring trail of the isg, photo-op summits, leaked memos, spun statements, and lying press conferences...

wake me when it's over...

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