Governors Told Not To Ask Questions About Iraq

The Huffington Post Melinda Henneberger Posted February 27, 2007 11:48 AMContact/tips: melinda@huffingtonpost.com
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Before their Iraq briefing at the White House yesterday, the nation's governors were instructed that they were not to ask any pesky questions about a timetable for bringing the troops home.

So by the time California's Arnold Schwarzenegger was on his third question about a timetable for bringing the troops home, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Peter Pace was just the tiniest bit out of patience -- just as some of the governors were with what one observer described as the strangely Soviet-style Q&A.

Later, the president also stopped by to speak with the governors, who were in town for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.

"Obviously, there's concerns about the decisions I have made regarding Iraq, and I understand that," he told them.

"Look, I mean, there's a lot of debate here in Washington, D.C. And if you want, we can spend some time during the question-and-answer talking about why I made the decisions I made."

The questions he took, however, had been submitted in writing, and pre-screened. And somehow, why he made the decisions he made never came up.

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