But other administration officials said the 75-minute meeting focused on all aspects of the war plan, including alternatives to using Turkey as a staging area for American troops to open a northern front in Iraq.
Critics have said that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's choice of a Whitehall insider to head the inquiry has doomed it to becoming a "whitewash," but Sir John has vowed to investigate all aspects of a war that became deeply unpopular in Britain, hastening the withdrawal of the last British troops in July.
The same conference furthermore created the machinery of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, where the British Chiefs of Staff Committee was to be linked continuously, through delegates in Washington, D.C., with the newly established U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Organization, so that all aspects of the war could be studied in concert.
But national security experts increasingly warn that militarizing all aspects of the "war on terror" actually plays into the hands of al Qaeda and hurts, rather than helps, U.S. counter-terrorism efforts.
After going down some expensive blind alleys (Hutton and Butler), the country now had an inquiry that would consider all aspects of the Iraq war, from the justification, to the conduct of the war, to the dismal aftermath.
He defends all aspects of the Iraq war.
Mines, some argued, shouldn't be restricted to the battlefield; they could hamper all aspects of the Union war effort.
You have to have a deep fascination with all aspects of the cold war to find what's on view visually compelling.
Books about fighting in trenches, about home front, the war in Africa and the East, women, conscientious objectors and pacificism; there are so many incredible books out there to help us explore all aspects of the Great War.
It's an aspect of war which is often forgotten or ignored.
