Before/after pix: top Pentagon brass at White House today; worth 1000 words

Yahoo News photos via AP & Reuters ^ | 3/5/03 | Wolfstar

[Wolfstar]

All of the Pentagon's top brass met with the President this morning, including JCS Vice Chairman Peter Pace (USMC), who is not seen in these pix.

Before meeting with the President, all smiles:

Yahoo caption: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shares a laugh with Attorney General John Ashcroft as U.S. military leaders gather outside the West Executive entrance of the White House before a private meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office, March 5, 2003. Ashcroft was departing as Rumsfeld and the others were arriving. From L-R are: Chairman JCS Gen. Richard B. Myers (USAF), U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, Ashcroft (back to camera), Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. (Larry Downing/Reuters)

After meeting with the President, grim faces:

Yahoo caption: JCS Chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers (USAF), above right, and Gen. Tommy Franks (USA), foreground, commander of American forces in the Persian Gulf, leave the White House after a meeting with President Bush and his national security team Wednesday morning, March 5, 2003. In a strategy Pentagon officials are calling "shock and awe," U.S. forces plan to drop 10 times the bombs in the opening days of the air campaign in Iraq than they did in the first Persian Gulf war, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[Wolfstar]

If pictures are indeed worth a thousand words, the contrast between these fore and after pix speaks volumes.

[IncPen]

ping

[ChicagoRepublican]

They're probably keeping a poker face to hold in their dissapointment that Bush is delaying the war another month to fiddle with the UN. (half-joking)

[Stopislamnow]

Pictures speak a thousand words, I think this says one word


War

[Shermy]

Joke? Very possible.

[Volunteer]

These folks know the truth: it is going to be short, brutal, bloody, and we are going to win.
My only question is are we going to unleash some of the "black project" weapons?
Make no mistake, the war started sometime ago. I pray that we win quickly.

[OXENinFLA]

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld leaves the White House after he and military commanders met with President Bush (news - web sites) and his national security team Wednesday morning, March 5, 2003. In a strategy Pentagon (news - web sites) officials are calling ``shock and awe,'' U.S. forces plan to drop 10 times the bombs in the opening days of the air campaign in Iraq (news - web sites) than they did in the first Persian Gulf war, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[ScholarWarrior]

Godspeed to our Armed Forces.

[Dog]

What was Ascroft doing at this meeting???

[Wolfstar]

He was not at the meeting. Respectfully suggest you read the captions: he was leaving as the Defense bigwigs were coming in.

[LarryM]

Bush had better have told them no to come back until they have Saddam's head on a pike.

[SunStar]

What was Ascroft doing at this meeting???

We're about to "bring justice" to a bunch of people... LOL

[Cindy]

Bump to post No. 3.

[aBootes]

Ashcroft was departing as Rumsfeld and the others were arriving

[Dog]

Sorry.....:-)

[Wolfstar]

This pic shows Rumsfeld's customary inscrutable expression.

[OXENinFLA]

I can't wait to see the Presser they gave today.

[Uncle Miltie]

Gonna be a whole lot of scorched bodies. No joy, man. No joy.

[Brandybux]

If pictures are indeed worth a thousand words, ... these fore and after pix speaks volumes.

Ok. I'll bite.

Whaddaya think these pix are speaking? Titles of the volumes will do, thank you very much.

[Wolfstar]

Dog, I love your tag line. Of all the very top A-list stars of that era, we should always honor Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable for putting their lives on the line for this country.