Rumsfeld hands Condi's note to Bush:
Posted on 06/28/2004 10:17:58 AM PDT by cyncooper
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice Monday informed President Bush in a handwritten note of the transfer of authority in Baghdad, prompting Bush to scribble back: "Let freedom reign."
"Mr. President, Iraq is sovereign. Letter was passed from (U.S. administrator Paul) Bremer at 10:26 a.m. Iraq time -- Condi," she wrote, according to copies of the note distributed by the White House.
The note exchange took place during a meeting of NATO leaders in Istanbul. She handed the note to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who passed it along to Bush.
Rumsfeld hands Condi's note to Bush:
Two questions:
WHERE are you getting all of the good pics?
Do you EVER sleep? LOL!
Feisal Istrabadi, Legal Advisor to Member of Iraqi Governing Council.
These pics are awesome! Thanks! Wonder where that note will end up?
Excellent beginning: keep the lawyers out of the loop!
Yes, I do! I slept from about 7:30 until almost 1......a wasted day, for sure!!!
The pictures are on Yahoo!
http://news.yahoo.com/
Just click on News Photos in the drop down box at the top right!
That's what I'm thinking!
Guess I wasn't the only one with that tagline idea.......lol.
I'm sure he meant to say Let freedom ring, and give a bump to Sean Hannity.
WoW! Great pics! Thanks!
PONG!
Yeah — and the Leftists, led by Michael Moore, are probably already bitching that GWB only responded with three handwritten words instead of jumping up and racing out the NATO meeting to personally inform Chirac.
BTTT
The note ended up as my desktop theme on my puter. And I must say it looks great!!!!
Oh, good! At least you got a little!
Thanks for the link!
Let Freedom Reign, PONG!
NOW THAT'S A KEEPER!!!
Or he may have been quoting Nelson Mandela.
If you can catch the video on Fox, you will see two guys sitting there looking like they want to jump up and High 5.
They couldn't even report THIS without a bit of negative spin . . .
..."White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice Monday informed President Bush ..."
In both the headline and the lead-in, the reader is left with impression that the President knew nothiong of this beforehand.
An honest report would have been:
"...White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice Monday confirmed to President Bush in a handwritten note that the transfer of authority in Baghdad was completed, ..."
Notwithstanding the above . . .
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