Mr Powell sits on the war council along with Mr Rumsfeld and Ms Rice.
Petraeus, who was in Washington for the monthly meeting of the Afghanistan war council.
President Bush spent today conducting a war council at Camp David evaluating progress or the lack of it in Iraq.
The war council meeting, usually a protracted affair, was brief.
The senior administration official said Obama was expected to ask the war council meeting about cooperation the United States can expect from the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, civilian support the United States is willing to offer, and support the United States can expect from other countries.
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As members of the New York-based United War Veterans Council, the McGowans will help represent New York State in the inaugural parade.
Indeed, with such a proliferation of possibilities since the cold war ended, the Council of Europe has had to struggle to assert itself.
Mr Blair has been preparing for his Camp David "council of war" with Mr Bush by consulting all his European colleagues, and there is no-one better placed to convey their views to the Americans.
Tony Blair insisted to the British public that he would only support a war if a second Security Council resolution authorising the action was passed, but the resolution never came.
At present, however, the majority of the 15-member Security Council are either against war or sceptical.
Its 14-member board was often at war with an 87-strong policymaking council elected by the trust's 310, 000 members.
The screen wall memorial dates from the late 1920s and the War Graves Commission has written to the council about its future.
Hagel on Tuesday defended the right to criticize the White House's war policies in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is concerned that America seems to have a lower threshold for going to war than other members of the Security Council.
Preeminent among these was the decision announced last week that Secretary of State Colin Powell had been authorized by Mr. Bush to seek a UN Security Council mandate for post-war Iraq.
In Britain, as in many other countries, popular and political support for military action against Iraq will come much more easily if any war is authorised by a new Security Council resolution.
He has never based his case for war mainly on the need to uphold the council's already ragged credibility.
Perhaps its greatest drawback is also one of its touted merits: that it is so carefully crafted to conform with the current UN charter, which makes the Security Council the most important arbiter of war and peace.
"They are trying to drag us back into a war, and that's what the Security Council didn't want, " he said.
Tom House, the Legion's head of pensions, says this is not just about the war pensioners in Harrow and is unsympathetic over the council's financial dilemma.
About 250 people turned out for the protest march, organised by the North East London Council of Action, from Chase Green war memorial through Enfield town centre to the hospital.
The ship, which is an official maritime war grave, is carefully protected by the local council, but hundreds of other vessels dotted round the UK coastline do not enjoy the same protection.
We continue to support UN Security Council Resolution 1738, which calls for war journalists, media professionals and associated personnel to be respected and protected under the Geneva Conventions as civilians, and the need to bring to justice those who incite such violence.
The new resolution gives the Security Council a role in the decision to wage war.
The post-war slum clearance programmes and the government inspired boom in council house building provided new homes to rent for millions of families.
Indeed, under three Security Council resolutions, she has international jurisdiction over war crimes in Kosovo, as in any part of the rump of Yugoslavia.
Eileen Potter (all the names used are pseudonyms), an evacuation officer for the London City Council, was charged as soon as the war began with removing children to the countryside.
Some of the 15 Security Council members believe that their unanimous support has made war less likely.
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