Top Bush adviser on Iraq to resign

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"Robert Blackwill, seen here in 2002, one of President George W. Bush's top advisers on Iraq (news - web sites), will soon resign, US media reported(AFP)"

Robert Blackwill, top Bush adviser on Iraq, to resign: media

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041106/pl_afp/us_iraq_blackwill_041106173055&e=1&ncid=

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Robert Blackwill, one of President George W. Bush's top advisers on Iraq, will soon resign, US media reported.

His resignation would come with elections in Iraq looming in January and the US administration facing a chaotic outlook on the ground, where 140,000 US troops are now deployed. US and Iraqi forces were readying Saturday to launch an assault on Fallujah, a rebel bastion.

According to The Washington Post and The New York Times, Blackwill told Rice months ago that he did not plan to remain in the US administration after the November 2 presidential vote if Bush won re-election. The White House did not immediately confirm the reports.

It would mark the second planned resignation in two days of a senior official in charge of Iraq or anti-terror policy in the Bush administration. The State Department announced Friday that its lead anti-terror official, Cofer Black, was resigning, saying it was time to do something else.

[truthseeker1]

1. This is the first bad sign that the neocons are winning the battle

He is one of the realists - part of the Jim Baker crowd.

Next indicator will be who W brings on his cabinet. If Wolfowitz is the new NSA, we are truly screwed.

[exJW]

2. He was forced out!

After putting Bush on his list of worst dressed men for 2004.

[truthseeker1]

5. lol - that's BlackWELL...

[Sperk]

3. OMG, they're all a bunch of pig faces, aren't they!

n/t

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

4. So he'd have stayed had Kerry won!

Am I correct in reading that between the lines?

This man's a realist who's been bravely soldiering on in a faith-based administration. I can't wait for him to talk!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. Seems like that's exactly what he said...

"he did not plan to remain in the US administration after the November 2 presidential vote if Bush won re-election"

[Rose Siding]

8. I wouldn't embrace him so eagerly

I scrounged some old pieces about him a while back when the foreign press called him more senior in Iraq than Bremer. He was known to prefer operating under media radar. A Condi pal from the eighties, he was stationed in India later. He stayed with Baker sometimes but I don't recall the context. I came away with the impression that he was more Baker-like than Baker, as far as pulling strings.

[natrat]

7. i keep expecting

the chimp to start doing the right thing and put these neocons back on the shelf