QUESTION: Wow. Okay. Another question is, who do you turn to when you have something to really talk about or you're struggling with, you know, an issue, or you just really need to talk something through?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, first, I turn to God. I really am a big believer in prayer. And so if it's something particularly heavy or weighty, I'll pray about it.
I also have good friends, people that I've known for years and I'm also very close to the National Security Advisor, Steve Hadley, who was a deputy national security advisor when I was National Security Advisor.
So I talk to him quite a bit.
Condoleeza Rice
interview with Essence magazine/ScoopNZ 25.05.06
Stephen J. Hadley
Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser
February 12, 2003
Council on Foreign Relations:
Should it be necessary for the United States to take military action, here are some of the principles that are guiding our thinking:
For starters, the United States and the international community will have to ensure the rapid flow of humanitarian relief and the rapid start of economic reconstruction efforts. Many of the Future of Iraq working groups are focused on this challenge.
- First, we will demonstrate to the Iraqi people and the world that the United States aspires to liberate, not occupy.
- Second, Iraq must be disarmed of all nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, weapons production capabilities, and the means to deliver these weapons. This will be a complex, dangerous, and expensive task -- one for which detailed planning is underway.
- Third, we must also eliminate Iraq's terrorist infrastructure.
- Fourth, Iraq must be preserved as a unified state, with its territorial integrity intact. Concern for the safety of Iraq's people will begin not on the day hostilities cease, but on the day they begin. The United States and its coalition allies will provide security that should prevent chaos, score-settling, and bloodletting.
- Fifth, along with our coalition partners, we must begin the process of economic and political reconstruction, working to assist the people of Iraq in putting their country on a path towards prosperity and freedom. In many ways, this will be our greatest challenge.
January 28 to March 24, 2003
Timeline of events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Cooperative Research
