Jude Wanniski article....

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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 Post`s 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 wouldn`t 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.

Here`s the Post`s Friday story by William Hamilton. The link promises excerpts from the book on Saturday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16.html.

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 CIA`s conclusion Saddam Hussein could not be removed from power except through a war and CIA Director George J. Tenet`s 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.

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