ight of the Iraq Stabilization Group.
Rice has been a key defender of BushÆs policies, appearing (as have Ashcroft, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Homeland SecurityÆs Tom Ridge) in press conferences, news magazine programs on television, before Congress, and at various venues throughout the United States and the world (Landay, et al, 2003). Generally, Rice and Powell have also been active in Bush policy initiatives regarding the war on terror, Afghanistan, the Iraq war, Korea, Syria, and the United Nations.
Dinmore, Spiegel, and Turner (2003) have noted that Rumsfeld and Rice often separately defend White House policy on issues such as Iraq, with each making use of the mass media to publicize the White House position. However, Landay, et al (2003) have asserted that serious infighting has emerged among these and other key players who have s
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