(LA Times) - What happened between the speech's first version and the last tells a great deal about Bush's world view, his decision-making and the divisions within his administration, U.S. officials say. Central to the first version, drafted at the State Department, were proposals for a U.S.-hosted international conference, but increasingly, the White House's National Security Council, headed by Condoleezza Rice, took over drafting the text. Also, in the aftermath of the U.S. role in Afghanistan, the idea of ousting a well-entrenched leader didn't seem untenable, U.S. officials said.
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