Bush signed "Order" for War in Feb 2002 (Guardian) MUST READ! [View All]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1154473,00.html

Bush 'wanted war in 2002'

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday February 24, 2004
The Guardian

George Bush set the US on the path to war in Iraq with a formal order signed in February 2002, more than a year before the invasion, according to a book published yesterday.

The revelation casts doubt on the public insistence by US and British officials throughout 2002 that no decision had been taken to go to war, pending negotiations at the United Nations.

Rumsfeld's War is by Rowan Scarborough, the Pentagon correspondent for the conservative Washington Times newspaper, which is known for its contacts in the defence department's civilian leadership.

"On February 16 2002, Bush signed a secret national security council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq, according to classified documents I obtained," Mr Scarborough wrote, in an account of the "global war on terrorism" as seen from the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary.

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I am posting this here in Editorials and Other Articles - unfortunately it is dated yesterday and cannot go in LBN - but it is a "must read".