...suppose it's possible that George W. Bush would award Stephen J. Hadley the Medal of Freedom. Certainly the president's national security adviser has earned it, for work that made possible the success we are now seeing in Iraq. And it would be within the...
...demands for complete U.S. withdrawal by the end of 2011. Feaver, the former strategic planner for National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, said he assumes that, "if the U.S. agreed to it, it preserves the flexibility that Petraeus and Odierno say...
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...J. Hadley took on his biggest job in a long government career a few months after the Sept. 11 attacks. With the Taliban ousted in Afghanistan, the White House shifted focus that winter of 2002 to Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Mr. Hadley, then the deputy...
...as "the decider," Woodward makes the case that, leading up to the surge, the real decider was National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley. Page 8: Asked about his relationship with the president, Hadley told Woodward: "If I feel it, he feels it. If he...
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