Reply #33: WP: Bush and Cheney Travel To Try to Rally Troops (speeches yesterday) [View All]

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Bush and Cheney Travel To Try to Rally Troops
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 29, 2005; Page A07

NORFOLK, Oct. 28 -- With the capital fixated on special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's announcement of a high-level indictment in the CIA leak case, President Bush and Vice President Cheney took flight from Washington on separate trips to make impassioned speeches before military audiences about the Iraq war.

It was a classic day of split-screen television images, with Fitzgerald taking questions at a lengthy news conference on a grand jury indictment he sought against Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, at the very same moment the vice president was addressing soldiers at a "Rally for the Troops" at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801916.html