1.   A war council met in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, and it had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein.

2.   He would never do what Bill Clinton did, wear a polo shirt to a war council.

3.   Here he presided over cabinet meetings and war councils.

4.   In this case, members of his war council concede, victory will come in little pieces and probably never be definitive.

5.   Most of them signed up many months ago, long before anyone knew that the summit meeting would be a war council rather than a celebration.

6.   Now the military component of war will fall squarely on the shoulders of a quiet member of the war council who is about to become a very prominent one.

7.   Rumsfeld is the most visible member of the war council.

8.   The entire war council is headed into unknown territory.

9.   The war council spent much of the week debating how to define the coming conflict to the American people.

10.   Then he joined Cheney, Rice, Powell and other members of his security team for an all-day war council.