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Thread ID: 13219 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-04-17
2004-04-17 16:56 | User Profile
The fully formatted report may be found at [url]http://wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=3484[/url]
The Book We`ve Been Waiting For
Apr 16 2004
Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: Bob Woodward`s "Plan of Attack"
The reason President Bush is never going to apologize for any "failure" in the Middle East as a result of his war with Iraq, he told Bob Woodward, is that the USA has to be "the beacon for freedom in the world." According to the Washington Posts assistant managing editor, the President minimized the weapons of mass destruction issue and told him simply: "I believe we have a duty to free people. I would hope we wouldnt have to do it militarily, but we have a duty."
The first account of the Woodward book, which gets into depth on the clash between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Vice President Cheney, we find that before the war with Iraq, Powell bluntly told Bush that if he sent U.S. troops there "you`re going to be owning this place." Powell and his deputy and closest friend, Richard L. Armitage, used to refer to what they called "the Pottery Barn rule" on Iraq -- "you break it, you own it," according to Woodward.
Heres the Posts Friday story by William Hamilton. The link promises excerpts from the book on Saturday. [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16.html[/url].
washingtonpost.com Bush Planned for War as Diplomacy Continued
By William Hamilton Washington Post Staff Writer
Beginning in late December, 2001, President Bush met repeatedly with Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his war cabinet to plan the U.S. attack on Iraq even as he and administration spokesmen insisted they were pursuing a diplomatic solution, according to a new book on the origins of the war.
The intensive war planning throughout 2002 created its own momentum, according to "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward, fueled in part by the CIAs conclusion Saddam Hussein could not be removed from power except through a war and CIA Director George J. Tenets assurance to the president that it was a "slam dunk" case that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
In three and a half hours of interviews with Woodward, an assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, Bush said the secret planning was necessary to avoid "enormous international angst and domestic speculation." He said, "War is my absolute last option."
Adding to the momentum, Woodward writes, was the pressure from advocates of war inside the administration led by Vice President Cheney, whom Woodward describes as a "powerful, steamrolling force" who had developed what some of his colleagues felt was a "fever" about removing Hussein by force.
By early January, 2003, Bush ..........................
2004-04-17 17:56 | User Profile
He shouldve been more specific. He should've said, "Its our duty to bomb the hell out of the Arabs to make sure they can never threaten Israel. I hope we dont have to destroy the Arabs militarily, but we do have a duty to Israel."
2004-04-17 19:27 | User Profile
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2004-04-20 00:36 | User Profile
I believe every word of it. Bush comes across as pure arrogance and . He has confused being a president with being a king. Pro-Israeli, pro-illegal immigrant, pro- global cooperation... anti-US citizen taxpayers. He gives $600 back and cause thousands more to be spent. The local and state governments just take it, if the feds don't. Bush knows that.
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2004-04-20 01:16 | User Profile
As long as he's killing them steenking Aye-Rabs, he can do no wrong in the eyes of Joe Six Pack and Sally Soccer Mom and the Yooo Esss Media, by God!