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WTVM
March 7, 2018
Card was chief of staff under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006 and was head of Bush's White House Iraq Group. He also served as President George H. W. Bush's deputy chief of staff from 1989 to 1992. Copyright 2018 WTVM. All rights reserved. | For more news, download the WTVM app here.
Politico
December 25, 2017
In 2002 and 2003, Rove chaired meetings of the White House Iraq Group, an internal White House working unit formed in August 2002, eight months prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The group's mission was to develop a strategy “for publicizing the White House's assertion that [Iraqi dictator] SaddamÃâà...
Observer
October 13, 2017
One Republican thinks it's “time to panic” over President Donald Trump's fitness for office. In a blistering Thursday op-ed for the Washington Post, former speechwriter and presidential advisor Michael Gerson called on Republicans to grow “vertebrates” towards Trump's “fundamental unfitness for high office.
POLITICO Magazine
May 6, 2016
In August 2002, President George W. Bush's White House established the “White House Iraq Group” made up of top policy hands and other “ad hoc messaging bodies” to sell its plans for an Iraq invasion. White House chief of staff Andy Card famously scheduled its kickoff after Labor Day because, as heÃâà...
Consortium News
November 8, 2015
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card sets up a White House Iraq Group (WHIG) to “educate the public” on the alleged threat from Iraq. The group includes heavy hitters like political adviser Karl Rove, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Bush's communications director Karen Hughes, and twoÃâà...
The Week Magazine
May 21, 2015
In the summer of 2002, the administration established something called the White House Iraq Group, through which Karl Rove and other communication strategists like Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin coordinated with policy officials to sell the public on the threat from Iraq in order to justify war. "The scriptÃâà...
Huffington Post
July 10, 2014
To that end, in the late summer of 2002, the administration formed the so-called White House Iraq Group for the sole purpose of selling the war. Nothing — not the repeated threat of non-existent chemical or biological weapons, not erroneous claims that Saddam supported al Qaeda — could galvanize American support likeÃâà...
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