While Dexter Filkins is writing about jogging in Baghdad, the Washington Post continues to kick the Times' ass with yet another great scoop.
In what was billed as a routine session, Powell told Bush that they had to go to the United Nations with a resolution seeking a U.N.-sanctioned military force in Iraq -- something the administration had resisted for nearly five months. Powell, whose department had long favored such an action, informed the commander in chief that the military brass supported the State Department's position despite resistance by the Pentagon's civilian leadership. Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, whose office had been slow to embrace the U.N. resolution, quickly agreed, according to administration officials who described the episode.
Perhaps the beginning of the end for Rumsfeld?
UPDATE: Powell calls WaPo article "total fiction".
posted by dackCould Powell have been behind Armitage coming out publicly for the un?
Posted by: Bob on September 4, 2003 10:41 PM