Friday, April 16, 2004

Woodward book: Bush planned Iraq invasion in early 2002

Bob Woodward's new book "Plan of Attack" says Bush secretly planned an invasion of Iraq soon after going into Afghanistan, and kept it so secret he ordered Rumsfield not to tell the CIA director. Meanwhile, Tenet was assuring Bush that Iraq had chemical weapons.

Let's think that through. That means Bush planned the invasion assuming U.S. troops would get attacked with chemical weapons. But they evidently had no idea elements of post-Saddam forces and Muslim armies would wage a guerilla war.

Meanwhile, yesterday a retired Marine general criticized Rumsfield for being naive about what it would take to pacify Iraq.

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