But if I may say from my experience of government what a war cabinet is like.
While at the Pentagon, Bush and his war Cabinet reviewed more than a dozen classified color photographs of abuse.
However, Mr Berlusconi - who was elected in 2001 - holds the record for leading the longest-serving post-war cabinet.
By December 2008, it was estimated that Jaabari commanded about 20, 000 fighters in Gaza and reportedly presided over a Hamas "war cabinet".
On that same subject, David Cameron's suggestion that if he won power, he would bring opposition leaders into a war cabinet would strike many people as a very sensible one.
And we're meeting this week to discuss Yemen and Somalia as well as other things, so the idea that there is no effective war cabinet - it meets about every week.
At first, the Secretary of War, a Cabinet member who, from the start, was a civilian, was called the Secretary at War, a holdover from the Revolution but also a prepositional manifestation of an ideological commitment: the department was chiefly to be called upon only if the nation was at war.
Anger in South Korea and China was fueled by visits to a controversial war shrine by cabinet members in April and then by comment Mr. Abe made on Japan's wartime role.
It is a charge that resonates beyond romantics who recall the post-war golden age of cabinet government when Whitehall was a collection of ministerial baronies, each run by a big beast and overseen by a prime minister who was merely primus inter pares.
What is more irritating for me is outside the imperial empire's contribution to the war there is a glass cabinet which has an India's girl's party dress in it.
"The serious allegation is that they got it wrong, and they should not be allowed to get off answering that issue because Alastair has souped up this controversy, " said Cook, who quit the cabinet before the war began.
Former International Development Secretary Clare Short, who also resigned from the Cabinet after the war, also told the inquiry on Tuesday that Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush decided to go to war last summer -- and that it had to be in the spring.
The war council -- comprising top Cabinet, Pentagon and administration officials -- met with Obama for the eighth time to discuss a request by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan for up to 40, 000 more troops.
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We now know that he and his military cabinet were ready to begin war early in 1913, aware that neither France nor Russia was ready.
At the same time successive administrations have waged what President Obama called Sunday "the war against al-Qaeda, " cabinet officers, law enforcement personnel, military leaders, and intelligence operatives have systematically engaged in "outreach" to the Muslim-American community via known U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood front organizations.
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Plans for a war with Iraq were not being discussed the cabinet meeting, the first in two months, Downing Street added.
Ms Liddell said she would take MSPs views to the Westminster Cabinet if they expressed opposition to war during the debate on Thursday.
And in February Justice Secretary Jack Straw vetoed the publication of minutes of cabinet meetings discussing the legality of the war in the run-up to the invasion.
He argued that if the minutes were published "cabinets are likely to be more cautious how they approach the matter in the cabinet setting" when it came to "war and peace decisions".
For months, the security forces did nothing to stop them, even after the women kidnapped policemen and ransacked government buildings, while the two brothers threatened holy war, and even issued a fatwa denouncing a female cabinet minister who had been photographed receiving a hug from a French skydiving instructor.
Sir Robert also said divisions in government, cabinet and public opinion over the legitimacy of the war inhibited post-war reconstruction efforts.
He says the class war against the bankers is going to be led by him and his cabinet of millionaires.
Given that his transitional cabinet was swollen with dozens of crooks and cronies and some alleged war criminals, this was rather worrying.
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According to the programme Gen Ashkenazi considered such an attack on Iran, "a strategic mistake" because of the risk of a war, while Mr Dagan deemed it "illegal", saying a full cabinet decision was needed.
The former PM also said there was nothing new in the suggestion, in Sunday's Independent, that he had stopped the attorney general telling the cabinet the full detail of the legal concerns ahead of the Iraq war in 2003.
He said Rumsfeld's comments vindicated his decision to resign from his Cabinet job as leader of the House of Commons in protest against the war.
If cabinet government means collective decision-making, it vanished in the first world war, when the job of the state grew and power was spun out to a web of committees with the prime minister at the centre.
After all, just eight months ago, Mr Blair received a withering dressing-down over his style of government from Lord Butler, a former cabinet secretary, who reported on the uses and misuses of intelligence before the war with Iraq.
Expressing reservations about "revisionism of what happened in history", former Cabinet member Lord Tebbit said his father and uncle, who fought in the war, would have had reservations about exercising "any form of pardon for those who had deserted their post or fallen asleep when they were on duty, thereby imperilling their colleagues".
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