White House Buffs Image (Again)

Faced with falling poll numbers and domestic unease with the Iraq situation, the White House is again attempting to polish its image. "The Bush administration is undertaking a campaign to regenerate public support for its policies in Iraq, dispatching officials across the country to promote White House strategy and build momentum for its $87 billion proposal to rebuild the war-torn nation," Capitol Hill Blue reports. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice kicked the campaign off Wednesday, addressing the Council on Foreign Relations in Chicago. George W. Bush spoke Thursday in
in Portsmouth, N.H., where he "praised military reservists and family members who gathered for his speech, asserting that the United States is 'meeting the test of history' as a result of its involvement in Iraq, which he described as the 'central front' in the war on terrorism." Friday, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Cheney delivered "a blistering rebuttal yesterday to critics of the administration's foreign policy and arguing that a consensus-based foreign policy is obsolete. ... Cheney blasted the criticism 'that the United States, when its security is threatened, may not act without unanimous international consent,'" the Washington Post reports.