New Yorker :: In the Soup: Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack
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> Few of the sensational and/or titillating revelations in “Plan
> of Attack” have been disputed, and none have been disputed
> persuasively. Seven hundred million dollars of funds intended
> by Congress for other purposes was diverted, possibly unlaw-
> fully, to preparations for war against Iraq. The President
> informed Prince Bandar, the Saudi Ambassador, of his decision
> to go to war before he informed his own Secretary of State.
> Bandar promised to “fine-tune” oil prices for Bush’s benefit in
> this year’s Presidential campaign. In May of 2002, General
> Tommy Franks gratuitously denied that Bush had asked him to
> put together a plan to invade Iraq, when, in fact, on Bush’s
> orders, he was working overtime on just such a plan and was
> already pre-positioning men and matériel in Kuwait to carry it
> out. An apparently promising plan to lure Saddam Hussein into
> exile and thereby avoid war was carelessly shot down by Bush
> at a crucial moment.

See also the Hersh article on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

One word : Bushdoggle.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 7:20 PM

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